February 2012
Yusen Logistics has upgraded its mobile application to allow customers to access their personal supply chain data via an individual secure log-in. They can view details or purchase orders and customs clearance details and track specific shipments for air, sea, road and rail shipments.
And IAG Cargo has launched an app that allows customers to track and trace air freight documented on Iberia and British Airways World Cargo Air Waybills as ...
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TNT Express NV said it had rejected an unsolicited offer by UPS on 17 February but that it remained in talks with its US-based rival about a potential takeover. UPS offered €4.9 billion ($6.44 billion) for the Dutch-based logistics company but TNT's supervisory and executive boards had rejected it. TNT ...
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Model Kelly Brook launched the inaugural sailing of the new DFDS Seaways-LD Line Dover-Calais ferry on 17 February. She was joined by Carsten Jensen, senior vice-president, DFDS Seaways and Christophe Santoni, managing director, LD Lines to cut the ribbon. Initially, the new route will operate up to five times a ...
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Kühne Logistics University is holding a Conference on Health and Humanitarian Logistics in Hamburg on 21-23 March. It aims to bring together all stakeholders in humanitarian response and global health care and will discuss the opportunities and challenges. Non Government Organisations, corporations and governments will also explain their priorities in ...
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Estate agent Edward Symmons said on 17 February that Yusen Logistics had occupied 26,500sq ft at Leeds Containerbase's D Shed and that French-owned car component manufacturer Treves (UK)had taken a ten year lease at the Containerbase’s 28,500sq ft C Shed. The Roadways Container Logistics -owned complex is now fully let, ...
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February 24 has been set as the date for the extradition of retired former freight forwarder Christopher Tappin to the US to face charges of attempting to illegally export batteries for Iranian missiles.
It follows the failure of his lawyers' emergency application to the European court after being refused leave to ...
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Electronics firm OSI Systems' security division, Rapiscan Systems, has signed a contract with the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey to provide cargo and parcel screening operations for the new World Trade Center. Under the $15 million contract, Rapiscan’s Eagle series of high-energy cargo inspection equipment will use ...
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UPS has acquired Kiala, a Brussels-based consumer online-delivery firm, for an undisclosed sum. Launched in 2001, it currently operates in Belgium, France, Luxembourg, the Netherlands and Spain. It has developed a platform that enables e-commerce retailers to offer their shoppers the option of having goods delivered to a convenient retail ...
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The European Parliament's Committee on the Environment adopted its first-reading report on revision of new sulphur limits for shipping fuels, despite the opposition of the industry and some MPs. The measure now needs to be adopted at the Parliament's plenary session, expected in late May. Under the proposals, existing sulphur ...
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Maersk Line said on 17 February that it would cut capacity on its Asia-Europe trade by 9% due to an oversupply of container vessels and unsustainably low rates. The move would be facilitated by a vessel sharing agreement with the French container shipping line, CMA-CGM, on its Far East to ...
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