November 2012
Luxembourg-based freight airline Cargolux is reported to be seeking a new shareholder after a row at a shareholders meeting on 16 November saw 35% stakeholder Qatar Airways pull out. The dispute happened after Qatar Airways failed in its bid to install its favoured candidate, Richard Forson, as CEO and to agree on a restructuring plan. China's HNA Group and the Volga Dnepr Group are reported to be considering investing in ...
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Air Charter Service has been busy these past two weeks arranging aircraft charters to help New Yorkers get their lives back to normal after Hurricane Sandy on 29 October.
The company's local office arranged two B767 charters for an electrical supplier in Texas to move emergency transformers to restore power to ...
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Norbert Dentressangle has opened a new frozen and chilled storage facility in Saint Georges d’Espéranche for its food industry customers in South Eastern France. The multi-temperature site near Lyon employs 70 people and offers frozen and chilled storage, bringing the total amount of capacity in the Lyon region to 72,000 ...
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Palletways officially opened its Northern hub at Morley near Leeds on 16 November, with the help of lady boxer Nicola Adams. Leeds-born flyweight Adams defeated world no.1 Ren Cancan at the 2012 Olympics in London to take gold. Fortunately, in opening the Palletways hub she faced nothing more formidable than ...
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For the fourth consecutive year, FedEx Express is donating the services of one of its call centres to help raise money for Children in Need. And over 150 company employees will volunteer their time to staff it, taking donations and pledges, providing technical support and lending other assistance. Over the last ...
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Dachser South Africa has opened a fourth branch office in Port Elizabeth, adding to its network of Johannesburg, Durban and Cape Town. Harold Thomas, with over 30 years experience in the freight industry, has been appointed manager.
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It's a brave man that gets rid of all his company cars and tells his executives to get on their bikes instead, but it has paid off for Dover forwarder John Shirley.
The company was recently awarded a 'Green Apple' award in recognition of its carbon-cutting efforts, and in illustrious company ...
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Geodis UK is running four new direct services to Germany. The operate daily to Hanover in 48 hours and daily to Ense, near to Dortmund with similar transit times. There are also direct links to Hamburg and Bremen, operated in conjunction with Geodis’s northern German partner the Bursped Group.
Geodis already ...
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EU Climate Action Commissioner Connie Hedegaard said on November 12 that inclusion of international aviation in the EU Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS) would be suspended. Brussels would instead allow the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) to develop a global solution for managing aviation carbon emissions.
The ETS scheme has run into ...
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Transport minister Simon Burns officially opened a new piece of railway designed to speed freight from Felixstowe to the Midlands on 14 November. A rail 'flyover' at Nuneaton will remove conflicts between freight and passenger trains at the vital junction and is part of a long-term investment programme on the ...
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