Del Monte spins off Network Shipping

Retailing giant IKEA is firmly in control of decarbonising its supply chain and in the process of encouraging its suppliers and customers to do the same.

Lidl, the giant European budget supermarket chain based in Germany, has opted to defer start-up of its new Tailwinds Shipping Lines until Q4 this year, due to prevailing very high prices on the charter market and ongoing supply chain problems caused by the latest Chinese coronavirus lockdown. At the same time, it needs more time to source containers and terminal capacity.

Peel Ports has partnered with the UK’s largest rail freight company, DB Cargo UK, to provide a new rail service for containers via the Port of Liverpool for the first time. Although Freightliner provides services to/from Garston (near Liverpool), these are mainly aimed at moving Liverpool o/d traffic over other sea ports, although the new arrangements with DB Cargo could challenge Freightliner’s Garston-Coatbridge offering

New Zealand avocado growers are looking towards active controlled atmosphere technology as they expand exports into international markets.

SEGRO, through affiliate VAILOG, has signed an agreement with IKEA that will see the Swedish furniture giant occupy a new 50,000 m2 multistorey warehouse at HAROPA Paris Port de Gennevilliers. SEGRO has brought forward development of the 63,000 m2 so-called Paris Air2
Logistique building to the end of 2018.

Germany-based Vollert Anlagenbau GmbH has added to its range of specialty industrial vehicles with the launch of the battery electric-driven VLEX semirobotic bimodal wagon shunting vehicle, which has a pull force of 300 kN.