October 2012
German forwarder Dachser has set up a joint venture in Vietnam. The new company, Dachser Vietnam, is majority-owned by Dachser Far East in Hong Kong and offers services including air and sea freight, customs clearance and a wide variety of other logistics services. In the short term the company plans to employ a staff of 20 with a head office and first branch office in Ho Chi Minh City. A ...
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Wallenius Wilhelmsen Logistics, the global provider of outbound logistics solutions, has joined forces with Abnormal Loads Services Holding B.V, the specialist in out of gauge supply chain solutions, through the acquisition of a 60% stake in the company.
With the investment in Abnormal Load Services Holding B.V (ALS), Wallenius Wilhelmsen Logistics ...
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Skills for Logistics has won £1.14 million, under the third phase of the UK Commission for Employment and Skills’ Employer Investment Fund to deliver a programme for transition from military to civilian logistics for up to 1000 people leaving the armed forces.
SfL will develop information advice and guidance (IAG) tools specifically ...
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APL Logistics has signed an agreement with Legend Holdings and Beijing Willway Information Technology to acquire all their shares in APLL-Zhiqin Group, a Chinese joint venture partnership among the three parties. The transaction, expected to close by end of the year, will accelerate Singapore-based APL Logistics’ plans to expand its ...
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Yusen Logistics's Russian arm has set a far east branch in Nakhodka. It will respond to growing demand for logistics services in an area of strategic importance linking Eurasia and the Asia Pacific region. It breaks new ground for Yusen Logistics which was previously concentrated in the west of Russia ...
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There has been a sharp increase in the amount of containerised traffic passing through Scottish ports, partly because of the boom in whisky exports, according to a new report on the logistics industry there.
The report, authored by Professor Alan McKinnon of Kuhne University, Hamburg and Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh and published ...
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Two historic British steam locomotives have been landed at the Port of Liverpool as part of a repatriation that will see them take part in celebrations of the world steam speed set by an identical locomotive, Mallard 75 years ago.
The two A4 Pacific locomotives, Dwight D Eisenhower and Dominion of ...
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British Airways and Iberia's IAG Cargo moved 50 oil paintings belonging to the Fundación Guayasamín from Quito, Ecuador,to Madrid, Spain on October 2 for an exhibition in Cadiz. Appropriately, one of the pictures was Las Manos de la Ternura ('Tender Hands'), along with Los Amantes. The paintings weighed a total ...
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Geodis Wilson, the freight forwarding and heavy lift division of the Geodis Group is helping to bring about an event eagerly-anticipated by the world's freighting industry – the expansion of the Panama canal to handle the new generation of mega containerships. The forwarding and heavylift specialist has been awarded a ...
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Meachers Global Logistics has signed a strategic partnership with fellow Hampshire company Steve Porter Transport Group for freight to and from the Isle of Wight via Southampton. Meachers will trunk Steve Porter's overnight groupage loads from the island to distribution centres at Northampton and Coventry, using mainly Red Funnel Ferries' Southampton ...
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