March 2012
The International Transport Workers Federation has relaunched it joint action with the International Trade Union Confederation on worker conditions at DHL ahead of the release of the freight giant's financial results on 8 March, including a new website, Respect at DHL (www.respectatdhl.org). The unions want DHL to guarantee the same basic rights to all its workers, wherever they are.
ITF general secretary David Cockroft is also supporting a strike by South ...
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The UK express freight industry is overstuffed with competitors, with the result that the industry is making a net loss, the new City Link boss told a press conference on 7 March. Dave Smith, who took over as managing director of City Link last December, said: “If you add up ...
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The port of Dover has replaced its Clearway Community System Provider (CSP) with the Pentant CusLink Inventory System for clearance of all third country freight.
Pentant was formed by former CNS executives Phil Waldron, Derek Dubber and freight industry IT sepecialist Martin Goodwin. It describes its flagship Culink product as “a ...
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Mozambican Labour Minister Helena Taipo has cancelled the work permit of Renand Jean Louis Sirex, the financial director of French-owned logistics company SDV AMI-Mocambique, accusing him of racist attitudes towards local workers. Allafrica.com, citing a Mozambique Labour Ministry press release, said that Sirex had been accused of repeatedly insulting Mozambican ...
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Hull-based container and general haulier A R Lunn Transport has gone into administration. The company operated a fleet of 102 articulated artics from a 7.5-acre site near the port, the BBC reports. Administrator Price Waterhouse Coopers confirmed that 115 jobs would be lost.
Source: BBC
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Forwarder Kuehne & Nagel is all set to open its new super-hub at Bad Hertzfeld in the centre of Germany on 1 June, a senior vice-president told FBJ on 5 March. Jim Hedderwick, in charge of road logistics for north-west Europe said that around 50 direct lines would operate to ...
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Retired British freight forwarder extradited to the US has been refused bail by a court in Texas, the BBC reported. Chris Tappin, of Orpington, south-east London, was extradited on 24 February after claims he conspired to sell batteries for use in Iranian missiles. A spokesman for federal prosecutors said bail ...
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Peel Ports said on 5 March that it had started the procurement phase for the construction of its new deep-water container terminal at the Port of Liverpool. The landmark terminal, which will handled two ships of up to 13,500teu, will be branded Liverpool 2 – echoing the Liverpool One retail ...
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Lufthansa Cargo called for swifter implementation of the certified shipper approval process in Germany at its fifth Security Conference in Frankfurt on 5 March. Operations board member Dr Karl-Rudolf Rupprecht said that with only 13 months to go until EU Directive 185 goes into force, fewer than one per cent ...
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Shipping lines are losing their shirts and shippers must expect to pay more if they are to enjoy quality services in the future, was as gist of the message from Maersk Line's new boss on 5 March. Chief executive officer , in his first major announcement to the press since ...
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