November 2012
The International Transport Workers' Federation (ITF) presented DHL with “a catalogue of shame” on 2 November – evidence, it said, that the global delivery company was turning a blind eye to illegal and punitive anti-union, anti-worker campaigns at its Turkish subsidiary.
To back up its allegations ITF also unveiled the results of an investigation by US academic Professor John Logan (www.itfglobal.org/files/seealsodocs/36752/JohnLoganReport.pdf)
Aggressive and unlawful: a report into Deutsche Post DHL operations in ...
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Norbert Dentressangle's freight forwarding division his offering an ocean version of its Red Sky Connect primary airfreight network launched earlier this year. ‘Red Ocean Connect’ is described as “a managed, end-to-end global sea freight service” and connects all the company's global offices, including recent acquisitions John Keells Group in India ...
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Britain's Rail Freight Group says that it is unhappy at French Government proposals to restructure its railways, bringing infrastructure manager RFF and incumbent operator SNCF into a single organisation. It says that the planned Groupement d’Infrastructure Unique (single infrastructure group) will manage the infrastructure, the timetable and maintenance and renewals ...
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London Gateway is holding three events in November to put across the supply chain and environmental advantages of the new London deep-water port and logistics park, scheduled to open in late 2013. They are aimed at cargo owners, freight forwarders, carrier representatives, rail providers and other supply chain professionals.
The Manchester ...
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Norbert Dentressangle has opened a new, shared-user distribution platform in Seville, Spain. The 4,000 sq m facility replaces another facility in the same location and has 20 loading and unloading bays and the latest RF technology and warehouse management systems. It will operate as a cross-dock facility for the transport ...
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TNT Post, the international parcel division of PostNL has teamed up with parcel network CollectPlus to offer UK e-retailers ta drop off service for international parcels via 4,800 corner shops. Stores are open till late, seven days a week and over 80% of the UK population is within a mile ...
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Tibbett Logistics received its first scheduled intermodal train from Germany and Austria at its Bucharest International Rail Freight Terminal (BIRFT) terminal. It arrived early on the morning of 29 October with eight semi-trailers and 30 45' pallet-wide continental containers, destined for import customers in the south east of Romania.
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Associated British Ports has awarded a £26 million contract to Liebherr for four new ship-to-shore gantry cranes as part of its redevelopment of container berths 201/202 at the Port of Southampton. Following construction at Liebherr’s factory in Ireland the cranes will be shipped to Southampton in component form before being ...
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A Volga-Dnepr Airlines’ IL-76TD-90VD freighter delivered diesel generators weighing over 35 tons from East Midlands to Bagram, Afghanistan. The oversized power generators, designed and manufactured by Dale Power Solutions, were placed in special shipping containers and rolled into the cargo cabin directly from the airside using a new wheeled loading ...
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