October 2011
UK-based transport company Europa Worldwide Logistics has formed a joint partnership with World Mega, Hong Kong and EWG Logistics (Hong Kong). Trading as Europa Worldwide Logistics (Asia), the company said it would extend its activity in Hong Kong and China and wanted to significantly increase its air and sea freight movements to and from the region. The Hong Kong office will be managed by Carmen Tsang, supported by Chris Lo ...
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P&O Ferries' has put its dedicated freighter, the European Seaway into 'warm lay-up' at Tilbury. A spokesman for the ferry operator said that following the introduction of the first of two large multipurpose ferries, there was sufficient capacity without the Seaway but the vessel could be quickly returned to service ...
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Direct Rail Services (DRS) has launched a rail service from PD Ports’ Teesport container terminal for high-cube boxes to Stobart Group’s Widnes Intermodal Rail Depot.
It operates five days a week using ‘SuperLow 45’ wagons capable of carrying 9'6” high high-cube containers over non-gauge enhanced and height restricted routes, opening up ...
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Schenker has introduced ten more young people to its UK National Apprenticeship programme following the success of a first cohort who joined the company in the winter of 2010. The new group of ten will be based from a variety of locations up and down the UK and will undertake ...
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Teesside based logistics and port operator AV Dawson has secured planning permission for its new intermodal rail terminal at Middlesbrough's Riverside Park estate and plans tom start work later this year. Once completed, the £2.6m AV Dawson Tees Intermodal Terminal will have rail sidings capable of handling trains carrying up ...
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Cargolux says that it has resolved its differences with plane-maker Boeing and that delivery of the first two 747-8 Freighters - initially scheduled for 19 and 21 September – would take place is proceeding on 12 and 13 October. The airline added that the issues between Boeing, GE and Cargolux ...
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In a statement on its website, MSC said that it was not the owner of the stricken containership Rena nwhich ran aground near aground near Tauranga, New Zealand on 5 October. The line said that while a number of press reports had quoted MSC as the owner of the stricken vessel, ...
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Atlantic Airlines, part of the West Atlantic Group, is to resume scheduled freighter flights from Coventry Airport, according to local press reports. It follows the acquistion of the troubled airport by general aviation company Patriot Aviation Group lasst year. The airport had ceased operations in 2009. West Atlantic will base ...
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DHL's Solutions & Innovations arm has set up a logistics 'think tank' to help develop creative ideas for the industry. DSI is expanding its site in Troisdorf, near Bonn to include an Innovation Campus, to engage in research with its external innovation partners and subsidiaries under one roof and to ...
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Freightliner ran a special dedicated OOCL service on 5 October to mark the continued partnership between the two companies. The Southampton bound service departed Freightliner's Trafford Park Terminal in Manchester with 52 OOCL containers and followed the contract signing between OOCL UK branch managing director Peter Ip and Freightliner MD, ...
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