January 2012
Pall-Ex is to continuing its Graduate Recruitment Programme in 2012, at a time when many companies are scrapping such initiatives, according to the palletised freight distribution network
Through the programme, which has been in operation since 2001, Pall-Ex currently employs eight graduates working across various departments of the business, from marketing to human resources and project management. Many members of Pall-Ex’s graduate team are also multi-lingual, which has been a great ...
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Emirates will add an extra 13 tonnes of cargo capacity a day to its Glasgow-Dubai service with the introduction a second Airbus A340-300 aircraft - a 59% increase on existing volumes.
Emirates’ vice president UK and Ireland, Laurie Berryman, said: “Our Glasgow route has been a real success story, and we ...
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The new London to Birmingham high-speed rail line, the go-ahead for which was announced today (10 January), must not be allowed to divert investment or capacity away from the freight sector, warn industry groups. There was a danger that most of the spare slots on the existing West Coast Main Line ...
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Community Network Services (CNS) has won the contract to develop DP World's London Gateway’s Port Community System. CNS’s existing Compass system, introduced in 2010, will link port and terminal operators, regulatory bodies such as HMRC, Port Health and DEFRA, shipping lines, freight forwarders, logistics operators and hauliers.
Customers will have a ...
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Safmarine has released an Android mobile application that allows customers to access and download essential shipping information. It follows the release, in April 2011, of a similar e-Business application for iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch devices.
Customers can look up sailing schedules, track containers or consignments (using a booking or container ...
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Wincanton said on 9 January that it had completed the sale of its mainland European operations and would now concentrate on its operations in the UK and Ireland. The logistics firm added that it had successfully concluded the £260 million refinancing of its existing bank facility, which was due to ...
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The Iraqi government is expected to agree to a Jordanian request for an alternative road freight transit route to Turkey, bypassing the continuing turmoil in Syria, according to a report in The Jordan Times on 9 January. The paper added however that it could take a month to complete the ...
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Dover-Calais ferry operator SeaFrance has been liquidated by The Tribunal de Commerce and told to cease its remaining activities, although services have been suspended since November 2011. The move is expected to result in the loss of about 1,000 jobs including almost 130 in Dover. Attempts by a workers' cooperative ...
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Hull-based Eurovision Logistics has joined the Fortec Distribution Network. The company, which was created in 2007 from the merger of two local family firms - European Road Freight and I J Blakey, offers a range of UK and international services. It has a workforce of 115 and an 80-strong vehicle ...
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Kerry Logistics is to start building a new logistics centre at Zhengzhou in central China's Henan Province in the second quarter of 2012. The logistics centre, scheduled for completion in the first quarter of 2013, will be built on 70,000 sq. m of land and will target the electronics and ...
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