August 2011
Finnish-owned short-sea line Containerships said it would offer improved services from the UK to Finland, the Baltics and Russia but would also close its service from Sheerness and Teesport to the Mediterranean due to the difficult economic climate.
An improved nine-vessel schedule to Russia will be operational as from beginning of September, offering improved frequency and transit time and up to four weekly connections from the UK and the Benelux to ...
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Lufthansa has decked out one of its MD-11 freighters as a flying ambassador to celebrate 100 years of air cargo in Germany. The plane will operate around Lufthansa Cargo’s global network to mark the day, 19 August 1911, when a single-engined Harlan took off from a grass strip in Berlin-Johannisthal carrying ...
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Scottish Rally Champion and leader of the British Rally Championship David Bogie and his co-driver Kevin Rae travelled to Belfast on 18 August with Stena Line Freight ahead of the weekend’s Ulster Rally.
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Russia’s Volga-Dnepr Group has reached agreement with Antonov to upgrade the first AN-124-100 Ruslan freighters to AN-124-111VD standard. The move could is a step towards relaunching serial production of the plane, according to Volga-Dnepr.
The agreement, signed at the MAKS-2011 International Aviation and Space Salon in Moscow on 17 August, envisage ...
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NYK director Philip Brown has been appointed UK managing drector for SBS Worldwide. He has worked in senior executive positions at Zeigler and Schenker organisations and was previously president and chief executive officer of Geologistics Italy.
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Kuwait-based forwarder Agility vowed to clear its name after it was arraigned before a jury by the US Department of Justice on 16 August. It said that in bringing the case, the Department of Justice had “criminalized what is, at most, a civil contract dispute.” However, it would now focus ...
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The CMA CGM Group has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) for the operation, equipment and expansion of the Gordon Cay Container Terminal in Kingston, Jamaica for a minimum of 35 years.
The Panama Canal widening will require a major reorganization of shipping, particularly in the Caribbean and North America region ...
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CMA CGM said on 17 August it would implement a further rate restoration programme on all shipments from Asia (including Bangladesh and Sri Lanka) to North Europe from 1 September, in addition to the program announced earlier in the month. Rates will increase by $225 per teu for both dry ...
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Heavylift shipping operator Rickmers-Linie has appointed Rüdiger Gerhardt as managing director and Ulrich Ulrichs as deputy managing director. Mr Gerhardt was previously director for human resources, administration and finance while Mr Ulrichs has been director of line management.m Both will remain responsible for their previous business areas.
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Wincanton is to sell its remaining mainland Europe operations to Rhenus for about €44m. It comprises the German intermodal and contract logistic activities at 38 locations, and the French contract logistics and transport services at 30 locations. Around 3,000 employees will transfer to Rhenus. The German company will alsotake on ...
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