July 2012
The Dutch coastline changed forever on 11 July when Queen Beatrix symbolically completed a massive land reclamation project as part of the Maasvlakte 2 development. At slack water contractors Boskalis and Van Oord closed the gap in the eleven-kilometre long seawall. President and CEO of the Port of Rotterdam Authority, Hans Smits, declared: “After 3.5 years of hard work, today we reached a major milestone. The seawall around Maasvlakte 2 ...
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Yusen Logistics has opened a specialist automotive operation at its Tamworth facility. The 81,000sq ft site by the M42 operation has been developed in response to requests from first and second tier suppliers for decanting, crossdocking, stockholding and sequencing operations in readiness for just-in-time feeding to Midlands assembly operations.
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DHL Express opened its US$175 million North Asia Hub at Shanghai Pudong International Airport on 12 July, its biggest in Asia. It also announced plans to further invest US$132 million (in an additional eight dedicated aircraft to service high demand routes between Shanghai and North Asia, Europe and the US, ...
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Women in Logistics unveiled its first two annual award winners at a ceremony in Warwick on 6 July which also raised £8,000 for charity Transaid.
Adele Waite, general manager of a $1.25bn global contract for DHL and who has driven growth of return on capital employed by 740%, won the award ...
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Port of Tyne chairman Sir Ian Wrigglesworth has stepped down and will be replaced by deputy chairman Sir Les Elton, reports NE Business. Sir Ian piloted the commercialisation of the trust-owned port which, as well as increasing car business from the nearby Nissan plant at Sunderland has also developed a ...
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Rhenus Contract Logistics is building new 55,000sq m premises at Son en Breugel, near Eindhoven in the Netherlands. Construction at the site, near the A50 and A2 motorways, is due to start immediately after the summer of 2012, with a planned handover date for the first phase on 1 March ...
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Panalpina has invested £750,000 in its Aberdeen operation and plans to add 15 people to its existing 160-strong workforce at its base in Bucksburn, Aberdeen, reports the Press & Journal newspaper. Increased oil and gas business also prompted the purchase of six new trucks, taking its total Aberdeen fleet to ...
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The 'Totally Logistics' show will take place at two venues this year at Doncaster Racecourse on 26-27 September and at FIVE, Farnborough on 10-11 October.
The two, double-day shows gives transport, fulfilment and warehouse professionals a chance to meet the leading providers of logistics solutions. Companies already participating include Barcode-IT, Belgravium, ...
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The Unite union is balloting its members at Portsmouth International Port on a possible strike. It says that the Portsmouth City Council-owned operation is attempting to to dismiss workers and rehire them on inferior contracts, creating a two-tier labour force. The ballot for industrial action, which is due to conclude ...
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French owned automotive logistics specialists GEFCO group is claiming one of the biggest automotive logistics contracts in European history with US carmaker General Motors. The contract will last seven years and comes into effect at the start of 2013. The contract covers inbound and outbound logistics (excluding the final distribution ...
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