July 2012
Expeditors have won this year’s Impatex 5-a-side football Challenge Cup, for the second year running. The tournament, organised by customs software supplier Impatex was held at Heathrow’s Goals Soccer Centre. Now in its second year, and with co-sponsors Albacore for 2012, the competition drew entries from Agility, Hellmann, DHL, KRL, Expeditors, British Airways World Cargo, Immediate Transport, SDV, Ceva Freight Management, Aramex and Ceva Contract Logistics and hosts Impatex, whose ...
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Public and private stakeholders met on 5 July to discuss plans to speed up Egypt's entry to the TIR Convention “in the very near future”, reported the International Road Transport Union (IRU). All parties agree that it is essential for Egypt to join as soon as possible. The major UN ...
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Ad hoc directives and impractical rules on advance electronic information could hit air cargo security and drive up costs, warns the Global Air Cargo Advisory Group (GACAG). It is calling for regulators to work more closely with the air cargo industry to develop rules and regulations and for broad industry ...
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TPC Freight Management has appointed David Pollock as head of business development for its UK Southern Region. He will oversee the continuing growth of the Paisley-based freight management business outside Scotland, specifically the wines and spirits sector.
TPC Freight Management provides complete global logistics solutions for the food; wine, beers and ...
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Senior executives at French shipping operator CMA CGM Group told officials in Ivory Coast that they were interested in tendering for the construction of a second port terminal at Abidjan recently. CMA CGM does not intend to participate in this project alone but will invest as part of a consortium ...
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Since Torque, the third party logistics provider, moved into it's Wigan premises, it has been actively building a network of clients in the North West. This July Torque will be extending its services to include ocean, road and air freight.
The company's head of freight, Paul Boland, commented that the move “will ...
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Independent Express Cargo, one of the founding members of The Pallet Network in Ireland, is expanding into deepsea forwarding in order to offer its customers a one-stop-shop for all freight requirements. The Dublin company has set up a deepsea division to strengthen its shipping activities.
IEC chairman Owen Cooke said: "We ...
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A new report by the National Assembly for Wales called for a new freight strategy for the country with greater emphasis on rail freight, electrification of the relief lines on the Great Western Main Line to improve access for container traffic to Welsh ports and for gauge clearance work to ...
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Norbert Dentressangle is to take over the freight forwarding operations of Sri Lankan and Indian-based conglomerate, John Keells Group, following a share purchase agreement signed on 4 July. The transaction is due to be finalised at the end of August.
The freight forwarding operations employ 120 people and had reported revenues ...
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The European Parliament has called for all trucks over 2.8 tonnes to be fitted with ‘new generation’ tacographs between now and 2020, including retrofitting of lorries already being being sold in the EU. MEPs adopted a report by Romanian MEP Silvia-Adriana Ticau on July 3 in Strasbourg. New generation tachographs ...
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