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The first shipment, carrying bauxite, destined for Emirates Global Aluminium (EGA)’s Al Taweelah alumina refinery, called at Khalifa Port’s South Quay, marking the commencement of operations at the newly launched facility.

Palletways, an Imperial Group company and European express palletised freight network, recruited 20 new members during 2020, a record number for the expanding company.

With nearly 1 in 4 UK hauliers having already lost business due to Brexit, they reveal whether they’re prepared for the post-Brexit transition period.

CEVA Logistics has completed the rebranding of the African acquisitions it made in the summer of 2020. With effect from January 2021, AMI and MANICA will be fully branded as CEVA Logistics. Except for MANICA in Zimbabwe, Malawi and the borders, which will be branded MANICA a company of CEVA Logistics through until 1 January 2022.

St. Modwen Industrial & Logistics has further strengthened its team with the appointment of former Prologis executive, Wayne Porter, as Director of Customer Relationships and Experience, starting in March 2021.

Business group Logistics UK has reacted with optimism to the Free Trade Agreement (FTA) reached between the UK and EU, but has cautioned that there is still much to be done to protect the nation’s supply chains, and the economy as a whole.

The trade and security deal the UK Government struck with the EU is a bare-bones deal for tariff-free trade in goods, but a no-deal for many other business sectors, creating significant frictions and less EU market access from 1 January, according to tax and advisory firm Blick Rothenberg.

As people continue to quarantine at home and brick-and-mortars struggle to stay afloat, only the most strategic businesses have been able to weather the financial woes brought on by the new normal. Much of said success can be attributed to the increased popularity of online shopping.

After recent research from BNP Paribas Real Estate found that 13.5 million of buildings over 100,000sq ft had already been taken up in Q3, international freight forwarder, W.E. Deane has freed up 1000 pallet spaces at their Barking depot in the UK in order to further accommodate the incoming surplus that is expected over the holiday season.

On 15 December one million freight and vehicle space offers were published in TIMOCOM's Smart Logistics System. This number not only marks a peak shortly before the start of the new lockdown. There have never been so many offers available in the freight exchange on a single day.