April 2012
CEVA Logistics has opened new premises in Bucharest, Romania. The new office, close to the biggest Romanian airport and seaports, will provide freight management solutions, including international air and ocean freight management services, cargo planning, freight management consultancy, worldwide door to door deliveries and customs clearance.
CEVA’s senior vice president, Eastern Europe, Piotr Zborowski, said: “The new office reflects our commitment to provide a solid platform for expansion in Eastern Europe. ...
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P&O Ferrymasters is basing some of its ‘Yellow Fleet’ trailers in Hungary, Romania and Slovakia for the first time. The company is currently operating in Poland and the Czech Republic with euro liners, mega trailers and coilers repositioned from its western Europe fleet last September. By adding own-trailers to the ...
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Richard Horswill has been appointed head of freight and route director for Liverpool/Heysham-Belfast. He recently masterminded major refurbishment work on two of the Liverpool route ships and is developing a number of initiatives around the onboard travel and retail experience as well as improving cost efficiencies and flexible customer service ...
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The new Russian port of Ust-Luga can now move containers by rail to Moscow and St Petersburg. The company says that it has the possibility to dispatch up to 30% of its container traffic by rail, by-passing the congested St Petersburg yard. The port’s rail terminal consists of four25-wagon sidings ...
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IAG Cargo’s Iberia Cargo has signed an agreement to become Barcelona-based low-cost airline Vueling’s general sales agent for cargo and mail space for two years. Freight can be now be shipped from and to any of the 21 airports in Spain reached by Vueling as well as London and a ...
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The UK risks becoming “a branch-line destination”, and will find it increasingly hard to compete in global export markets, without a clear aviation strategy which deals with short, medium and longer-term needs, warned a CBI luminary. In a speech to a Transport Times conference, ‘A new strategy for UK aviation’ ...
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Romford-based Fallow International Freight Limitedhas sold a strategic stake in its business to CWT Globelink, the freight arm of Singapore listed CWT, say legal advisors Birkett Long.
Fallow has been renamed Globelink Fallow Limited and has joined Globelink’s global group, whose g network now includes over 100 offices in 25 countries.
Globelinksaid ...
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Volume recovery in the Irish Ports and Shipping sector slowed in 2011 compared with 2010, according to the latest edition of the Irish Maritime Transport Economist, released on April by the Irish Maritime Development Office (IMDO). Only dry bulk volumes increased by 5% year on year, while unitised traffic on ...
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Peel Ports' barge Manchester Ship Canal barge service has moved its first project cargo - a 30 metre high, 20-tonne chemical tank to the Ineos facility at Runcorn. The tank arrived at the Port of Liverpool from Holland on the ACL vessel Atlantic Concert, and made the onward journey on ...
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Cargo charter brokers Pacific Airlift of Singapore, The Charter Store of the US, and recently-formed NEO Air Charter of Germany have joined forces to launch Global Charter Alliance – the world’s first consortium of independent brokers, they say. Their aim is to continue providing highly-personalised service, but will work closely together to ...
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