September 2011
Deutsche-Afrika Linen is replacing its direct sailings from Le Havre, Antwerp and Felixstowe with a transshipment service via Gioia Tauro in Italy. However, the new service, which uses the MSC Lion service, will offer faster transit times and improved schedule reliabilityand now also includes Bremerhaven and Hamburg. Tamatave and other ports in Madagascar will continue to be served via transshipment in Port Louis.The direct service to Le Port (Reunion) and ...
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The US Postmaster General warned on 5 September that the US Postal Service would have to shut down this winter – possibly for good – if Congress did not take urgent action to stabilise its finances. Its deficit is set to balloon to $9.2 billion despite a range of cost-measures ...
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Volga Dnepr has been awarded ISO9001:2008 status for quality management and ISO14001:2004 for environmental management.
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Toyota is working on a more robust supply chain capable of recovering within two weeks of another disruption such as the earthquake that hit Japan in March. The earthquake and tsunami had a serious effect on the Japanese car industry from which production is only just beginning to recover. Executive ...
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Chapman Freeborn's specialist On Board Courier (OBC) team has moved to a new headquarters near Cologne-Bonn airport. At the same time, Pasquale Bellarosa has joined as business development and sales manager. Additional teams have also been established in Beijing, Houston, Istanbul and Singapore and there are plans to further develop ...
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Freight forwarder Bellville Rodair International (BRI) has opened an office in Shenzhen, China, following similar moves in Moscow and Calgary earlier this year. BRI added that it expects to add two more locations within the next six months, following a 30% increase in turnover during the first quarter of the ...
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Father-and-son consultancy team RCR has been signed as the UK business partner for RAK Logistics to spearhead its expansion in the UK.
RCR was formed in 2009 by chief executive Mark Roderick with his father, Dr Edward Roderick, as chairman. Mark Roderick previously worked in senior roles at Sainsbury, Morrison, Alliance ...
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The freight forwarding industry is becoming more concentrated in the hands of larger players, according to a new study by Transport Intelligence. While the industry has historically been very fragmented with small firms based in one location competing with larger global concerns, larger players have been steadily gaining market share ...
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The Rail Freight Group (RFG) said the UK Government had “gone soft” on separation of railway operations from infrastructure management in European Law, a move which it sees as essential if UK operators are to expand their operations on the continent.
RFG said that the Government had, in a briefing paper ...
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One of the first fruits of Kuehne + Nagel's acquisition of UK-based trailer operator RH Freight is a new daily direct groupage line between its central hubs in Nottingham and Poznan in Poland. The new door-to-door service. Services operate door to door to destinations in Poland and are double-manned to ...
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