April 2012
Cycle Challenge has kindly named maritime charity the Sailors’ Society as the beneficiary of its annual Coast to Coast cycling challenge on 26th and 27th May. The two day cycle will take participants from Whitehaven, through the Northern Lakes and over the Pennines ending at Sunderland Marina.
In 2010 175 cyclists took part in the challenge and raised an incredible £20,000 for charity.
Mark Porter of said,
“We are delighted to be ...
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Post-Kogeko, Visbeen and Coolboxx have started a trailer and container service for fresh and frozen products between the UK and Spain/Portugal via ’s Tilbury/Zeebrugge/Bilbao service. Transfennica added Tilbury to the its Iberia service schedule in February with the Friday evening sailings from Bilbao calling there on Sundays at 14.00 and ...
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is introducing a US$150/250 per 20’/40’ Space Freight Premium (SFP)on Europe to Asia Eastbound bookings due to the “extraordinary surge” in bookings from 15 April. It will apply on all routes between North Europe/ Mediterranean / East Med/ Adriatic/Black Sea and Asia / Oceania / Indian Sub-continent /Middle East ...
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Arms dealer Viktor Bout, dubbed the "merchant of death", has been sentenced to 25 years in jail by a US judge, the BBC reported. The 45 year old the ex-Soviet officer tuirned cargo airline boss was found guilty in November of attempting to sell arms to a supposed Colombian rebel ...
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Famous Pacific Shipping Group member FPS Hong Kong is launching a new direct ocean groupage service to Honolulu, Hawaii It starts in late April, and initially offer fortnightly sailings and will cut transit times currently offered by lines by up to five days. All general cargoes apart from hazardous cargo ...
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American Airlines Cargo is re-commenced its daily, non-stop service from Dublin to on 4 April until the end of the summer season in late October. Flights are operated by a B767-300 wide-bodied aircraft departing the Irish capital at 10.00 arriving in Chicago at 12.20 in time to meet onward connecting ...
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Stena Line has recruited Björn Petrusson as group freight director with overall responsibility for running and developing its freight business. He was previously president of trading company Elof Hansson Trade and has held a number of senior positions in international shipping and logistics, including MD of DFDS Tor Line in ...
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FedEx Express is introducing four 757's to enhance the next-business-day service between eight major European airports, including Birmingham in the UK.
They offer next-business-day services to FedEx Express customers in Oslo and significantly improve services for customers in Sweden, Finland, UK and the Netherlands, with faster transits and extended cut-off times. Shipping ...
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Germany's Federal Administrative Court has upheld a ban on night flying at Lufthansa's main Frankfurt hub – effectively making permanent the 23.00-05.00 ban imposed by the Hesse state court last October. The court in Leipzig also reduced the number of flights permitted in the 'shoulder' hours from 10 pm to ...
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The Woodland Group has become the first UK freight forwarder to install a Westminster dual view cargo and pallet X-ray scanner – a state-of-the-art machine more commonly seen in the US.
The company’s first WG IS1517 cargo and pallet X-ray scanner is already operational at Woodland’s air cargo centre at Heathrow ...
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