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Issue 1 2021 - Freight Business Journal Samskip adds Amsterdam link


Samskip has introduced a direct service between Ireland and North Continental Europe with a new weekly sailing between Amsterdam and Dublin. It complements the existing Rotterdam-Cork-Waterford- Dublin-Belfast services by offering a new Monday night departure from the Continent to Ireland. Samskip also operates rail links via Duisburg to the rest of Continental Europe. The shortsea operator says that


the weekly connection will allow Irish importers to avoid post-Brexit hassles. Samskip’s head of Ireland trade,


Samskip, Thijs Goumans, said: “The Ireland-North Continent freight market is in a dynamic phase, and fixed day container services to/from Amsterdam provide the certainty on which supply chain managers serving the Dutch and German markets can base business growth,” Samskip would consider calls to connect other


ports in Ireland to Amsterdam direct, he added. Regional Director, Samskip


Multimodal, Richard Archer, added: “Shortsea container services can once more prove themselves more than a match for ro-ro, particularly for products previously shipped to distributors in the UK then redistributed across the Irish Sea. Amsterdam is a high- performance port connecting straight into the hinterland area and the entire Samskip Ireland team is


delighted by this new commitment to pan-European transport.” The


fixed day service


departs from the TMA Terminal Amsterdam. TMA general manager, Michael van Toledo, said the rail links to Duisburg and TMA’s congestion-free road access offered a platform for growth in FMCG volumes into Ireland and pharma and dairy exports moving the other way, adding:. “It targets the greater appetite for direct North Continent services to Ireland post-Brexit, with TMA’s cross-docking winning over trailer operators in markets further south.”


Global trade has not been as badly damaged by the Covid pandemic as was first feared and will recover faster than from the 2008 financial crisis, says a new study by port and logistics operator DP World. The inaugural ‘Trade in


Transition’ report, commissioned by DP World and conducted by the Economist Intelligence Unit, is based on responses from 800 senior executives. It says that while the World Trade Organisation feared a 32% collapse


in global trade eight months ago, in December 2020 it forecast a fall of 9.2%, “still a substantial drop…but far from the disaster once feared”. The DP World survey, carried


out in October and November, found that 77% of respondents


believed their firms’ international sales would expand in 2020, with 13% indicating trade would increase by “50% or more” compared to 2019, and an additional 15% expecting trade to rise 30-49%. Under 10% of respondents expected a contraction in international trade. The report added: “Few, if any,


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respondents could have known at the time the scope and scale of the crisis the global economy would be soon confronting. Yet for many of them, the pandemic apparently hasn’t been so dire, at least insofar as cross-border sales are concerned.” While it took just over two years


to fully recover from the 2008 financial crisis, 27% of respondents believe that recovery from the Covid crisis will take only 6-12 months, 2% less than six months and 43% 1-2 years. Only 8% believe that it will take more than five years and under 2% believe trade will never recover. However, the crisis may be a


spur for change in global trading patterns. On average, firms in our survey are reallocating 32% of their revenue from the first half of 2020 to reconfigure their supply chains. a sentiment that “could indicate massive spend in the coming months and years on supply-chain shiſts”. The signing of the Brexit deal in


late December also removed the spectre of the UK crashing out of the EU, which means that firms on both sides of the Channel can at least begin to make informed decisions about trade


///NEWS


News Roundup Forwarding & Logistics


Logistics specialist GEFCO UK has appointed Cédric Chacon as its new managing director. He joined the UK team in 2010 to focus primarily on the overland network before taking on responsibility for the warehousing and reusable packaging business units in 2015. In his new role he will lead the UK’s Air & Sea division and drive greater integration between the two businesses.


Cardinal Maritime Group’s Manchester-based Far Logistics arm has acquired Warrington-based Candour Logistics. Launched in 2015 by John Keary and Edward Hunter, Candour employs 21 people and will continue to operate on its existing site. Far Logistics, which employs 60 people, has eight offices in the UK, and recently opened a site in Rotterdam.


Greencarrier Freight Services has opened a new office at Manchester Airport. The Scandinavian-owned forwarder already has locations at Ipswich and Immingham.


DFDS has signed an agreement to acquire European cold chain operator HSF Logistics Group. HSF operates in the UK, the Netherlands and Germany while its N&K Spedition and Skive Køletransport brands are active in Denmark and Scandinavia. Its Eurofresh arm is focused on the German market.


The British International Freight Association (BIFA) Board has promoted training development manager Carl Hobbis to its board as an executive director. Aſter joining the association in 2016 he orchestrated redevelopment of its training and industry education. Prior to joining BIFA, Hobbis worked in freight forwarding for more than 30 years, in ocean and air freight, eventually taking on a marketing and communications role at DB Schenker.


BIFA has published a new version of its standard trading conditions, replacing the 2017 version. The latest edition has been produced as a consequence of the UK’s exit from the EU and reflects changes to direct/indirect representation with HMRC. The term “Customs Representative” is now replaced by “The Customs Agent” although the concept remains largely the same.


Geodis said it was aiming to have 25% of its leadership positions to be held by women by 2023 at its annual Women’s Network summit on 1 December. This compares with 18% in 2017 at the forwarder, where women make up 40% of the total workforce. Geodis has also set up an internal women’s network to give male and female employees opportunities to express themselves, make suggestions, initiate or support actions that contribute positively to gender equality.


Davies Turner Ireland has added ISO9001 accreditation to help reduce the risk of disruption following the end of the UK’s Brexit transition period. It also brings Davies Turner Ireland into line with DT Group’s UK operations, all of which are also ISO9001: 2015 accredited.


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trade remain. The residual effects of import tariffs and export controls imposed on essential goods during the pandemic are likely to continue to weigh on trust between countries, and tensions between the US and China will remain unresolved, particularly in the area of technology.


DHL Global Forwarding is investing ZAR 126.5 million (£6m) in a new hub in Johannesburg. The new 13,000sq m facility will be located within the bonded zone at Skyparks Business Estate close to OR Tambo International Airport. Twice the size of its current set-up, this new facility will consist of a 10,000sq m warehouse allowing the forwarder to consolidate all its customers’ warehousing requirements. A cold chain facility will consist of three adjustable temperature controlled refrigerators geared to handle life science and healthcare products in and out of South Africa.


XPO Logistics has completed its acquisition of the majority of Kuehne + Nagel’s contract logistics operations in the UK and Ireland. It expands XPO’s contract logistics network in the UK and Ireland to 248 locations and approximately 26,000 employees and include inbound and outbound distribution, reverse logistics management and inventory management, primarily in the beverage, technology and e-commerce, and food service verticals.


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