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Issue 1 2018 - Freight Business Journal www.vixsoft.com


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Gefco opens Heathrow healthcare site


Gefco Group has opened its first UK dedicated temperature- controlled warehouse for the life sciences and healthcare sector at Heathrow Airport, complementing the global logistics operator’s warehouses in Frankfurt and Amsterdam. The new 15,000sq ſt facility offers ambient (15ºC to 25ºC), and cool (2ºC to 8ºC) to frozen (-15°C to -25°C) areas.


Gefco holds a Wholesale


Dealer Authorisation, said forwarding quality and compliance director, Josette Wells. She explained: “The authorisation allows the facility to store human and veterinary medicines as well as medical devices as part of its logistics and transportation services.” The


compliant and ISO 9001:2015 facility is also GDP


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certified. Security includes on- site X-ray screening for air cargo and constant 24/7 monitoring. Executive vice president


of Gefco’s freight forwarding business line, Anthony Gunn, added: “The Life Sciences and Healthcare logistics market is changing and becoming more complex. With the increase in temperature-sensitive products as well as the regulations related to their transportation, companies need to put more focus on control and security.”


Airfreight group takes congestion- busting plan on the road


The CCS-UK User Group – the non- profit body which manages, and commissions enhancements to, the CCS-UK freight community – is organising a series of road shows around the UK in early 2018 to highlight the issue of truck congestion at Heathrow and its own plans for an advanced information system to solve the problem. It says that recent problems underscore the pressing need for a system


that will alert handling agents to arriving vehicles, and speed up their processing. The group will also update


delegates on progress with its own advanced information project, a new function that will enable freight agents, and transport companies working on their behalf, to pre-alert handling agents of loads being delivered or collected as well as allowing submission of


electronic security declarations (eCSDs). Advanced information –


including vehicle, driver, cargo being delivered, handling agent and ETA - will be submitted either through a web portal, for smaller, occasional users or, in the case of larger and more frequent users, messages will be sent direct from the forwarder’s own system. The information will then be accessible


Brexit remains a big unknown but the port of Dunkerque is preparing for all possible outcomes, including creating enough holding area for two vessels-worth of vehicles, said chairman of the management board, Stéphane Raison. He told a press conference


on 15 January that Brexit “is very concerning because we don’t know that will happen…. Nevertheless, we are starting work so that we can accommodate more vehicles so that if extra checks are imposed we will be in a position to store them in secure parking areas.” His


colleague, supervisory


to all parties in the supply chain. Deliveries to multiple shed operators will be automatically split by the system, and only data applicable to each handler will be seen by them. CCS-UK User Group had


presented its solution to Heathrow Airport aſter it made a request for proposals for a call forward system


board president François Soulet de Brugière pointed out though that, even aſter Brexit, checks on vehicles between the UK and France would probably be minimal. “We will only have to check the transit documents, which can be done through the ship’s manifest.” He predicted that the number of trucks that would actually need to stop at the border would be “very, very low”. One possible issue could be checks, whereby


juxtaposed


French customs officials operated on the UK side of the water, or vice versa, he added. “If British customs want to carry out checks in France, the UK would have to


that would have given priority to vehicles booked into the pre- alert system, enforced by barriers. HAL subsequently decided not to proceed with this, but CCS-UK User Group believes in the benefits of the Advance Information element of the project and is proceeding independently. It will be available free of charge at all UK airports.


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Dunkerque makes space for Brexit backlogs


pay for this,” he said. He said however that the


French director of customs had so far refused to discuss the issue of Brexit with the port. De Brugière also told the


conference that while the port of Dunkerque was keen to develop its unaccompanied freight traffic with the UK, and had held talks with ship operators to this end, it was inhibited by a lack of berth capacity in northern UK ports. He also hoped that Dunkerque could emulate the port of Calais in becoming a terminal for the French Railways’ ‘rolling motorway’ service from the Spanish-French border.


Parker said: “The suggested


barrier, unless accompanied by a by-pass lane and holding park for non-compliant vehicles, would have worsened the situation. Nor should the industry have to operate differently at individual airports, or pay extra (as was proposed) for the privilege of delivering cargo to a carrier at Heathrow.”


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