July 2012
Kerry Logistics has started building a ninth, 11,000 sq. m. warehouse in the Song Thang area of Ho Chi Minh City in Vietnam. It is due to be completed in the first quarter of 2013. Kerry opened a logistics centre in Hanoi in 2011 and a 9,000 sq m facility in Danang in Central Vietnam in 2010.
On 9 July, the company announced that it had acquired 55,000 sq m of ...
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A seaman has died and another is missing after the 6732teu MSC Flaminia caught fire in the middle of the Atlantic. The 11-year-old chartered vessel was on MSC's voyage number 1225R and had departed Charleston on 7 July and was due in Antwerp on 17 July. She was due to call ...
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BG Freight Line is introducing a weekly container service using a 700teu ship between Rotterdam, Liverpool and Belfast on 21 July. Departures from Rotterdam are on Monday, arriving Liverpool Wednesday and Belfast of Thursday and arriving back in Rotterdam om Saturday. Connections are available in Liverpool for destinations on the Manchester ...
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The European Commission has asked for more time to review UPS's proposed acquisition of TNT Express , saying that there are certain areas that require more time to analyze. As a 'Phase II' investigation can take up to 25 weeks to complete, it is likely the offer condition relating to ...
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Handler John Menzies is to close its cargo operations at Birmingham, East Midlands, Glasgow and Manchester airports as part of a restructuring of its business. It will retain its operations at London Heathrow, Aberdeen and Belfast as well as operations in 20 other countries. It blamed excess capacity and a ...
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The Irish Exporters Association (IEA) warned of "dire consequences" if Aer Lingus' airfreight service to US is not retained in the privatisation of the state-owned carrier, Business World reported on 16 July. At a meeting with Minister for Transport Leo Varadkar, the IEA said that the service was vital to ...
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BigLift Shipping completed the last of two challenging shipments on its vessels Happy Diamond and Happy Dover for the US Steel Corporation in Clairton, Pennsylvania, from Lubeck (Germany), to Mobile. The 350-tonne loads had to be placed inside the hold with only inches to spare on each side. Moreover, due ...
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Customs clearance software firm Agency Sector Management is streaming a twitter feed giving real-time updates on traffic congestion around Heathrow Airport during the Olympics to its web site (www.asm.org.uk). It says it will give easy access to the information to staff not allowed access to social media at work.
The Heathrow ...
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New freight ferry operator North Sea Ro Ro has appointed Dan Ericsson as president and chief executive office, Peter Kleberg as executive vice-president sales and Lennart Dahlback as operations director. Marten Carlquist will also relinquish his post as interim managing director and become chairman of the main board of directors. ...
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Worldwide pirate attacks have fallen sharply in the first half of 2012, led by a drop in Somali piracy, according to the International Maritime Bureau’s report published on 16 July. There was a sharp fall in Somali piracy but partly offset by “a worrying increase of attacks in the Gulf ...
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