Priority Freight’s logistics director weighs in on U.K. migrant crisis

Paul Williams, the logistics director for U.K. – based logistics company, Priority Freight, said the company experienced a 300 percent increase in airfreight bookings last year, moving goods that could have been delivered by road, were it not for the migrant crisis in Calais, France,  which began last summer. The crossing to Dover, England, was[…]

Schiphol Cargo nears record handle in 2015

Europe’s third-largest cargo airport, Amsterdam Schiphol, closed 2015 with a total cargo throughput of 1.62 million tonnes, just 0.7 percent less than the record, which was set in 2014. The fourth quarter was Schiphol’s strongest, and also its first quarter of 2015 with consistent growth, which was 1.3 percent against Q4 2014. The fourth quarter[…]