December 2012
A new 'association of associations' has been formed to improve standards among global freight forwarding networks and differentiate bona-fide, high-quality logistics networks from what its founders say is a growing number of ‘rogue’ networks .
The Elite Association of Logistic Networks (ELITE) was officially launched on 11 December with nine major global logistics networks as founding members and wuith a combined membership of over 3,550 freight forwarding companies around the world, ...
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Sinergy Cargo – the Italian member of the FPS forwarder and consolidator network – has opened a container- and bulk cargo handling and storage centre, at Arquata Scrivia, 40km from Genoa Port.
As well as 20,000 sq m of warehousing there are five cereal silos and large truck parking and manouevring ...
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DHL Aviation has leased the adjoining 81,000 sq ft building at the Heathrow Cargo Centre 'Horseshoe' Road area of London Heathrow, through the joint SEGRO-Aviva Investors Airport Property Partnership. The move almost double's DHL's existing 100,000sq ft of space at Heathrow. The Horseshoe Road (officially, Shoreham Road East and West) ...
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Yorkshire logistics firm Brian Yeardley Continental has been re-assessed for the European Chemical Industry Council's SQAS safety and quality assessment scheme. The company handles a variety of chemicals and hazardous goods delivered across Europe by its ADR trained drivers. Each assessment and report is stored in a central database which ...
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A new freight and passenger ro ro service has been started between Iskenderun in Turley to Port Said Egypt to help traffic bypass the unrest in Syria. Ro pax vessels have been chartered from Greece's Sisa Denizyolları.
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Cathay Pacific has been fined AUS$11.25 million (US$11.8 million) and Singapore Airlines Cargo AUS$11.75 million (US$12.3 million) for taking part in an airline price-fixing cartel that sought to fix fuel surcharges on government contracts from 1996 onwards. The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) said Singapore Airlines and Malaysia Airlines ...
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A new air cargo world order will emerge over the next five years, as European combination carriers make way for new kids on the block, and niche carriers come into their own, according to Larry Coyne, CEO, Coyne Airways.
Some, if not all, European legacy airlines will leave the long haul ...
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Conygar Investment Company has submitted plans to Ynys Mon County Council for a 4-acre logistics depot and truck stop at at Parc Cybi near Holyhead, the BBC reported on 4 December. It says the truck stop would ease overnight parking problems and congestion. The Council said the applications were likely ...
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Two Volga-Dnepr IL-76 freighters operated delivered two highly-sensitive satellites from Montreal in Canada, to Krasnoyarsk, Russia, in a temperature-controlled container. A diesel generator was hooked up during a scheduled technical stop in Haan Airport in Germany.
Following completion of the first flight, Volga-Dnepr moved the special satellite container back to Canada ...
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The Office of Fair Trade has approved Unifeeder’s acquisition of fellow short-sea and feeder operator Feederlink , which will become effective from mid December.
The two carriers plan to cooperate on services between the UK east coast and Rotterdam, Hamburg and Bremerhaven. Feederlink teams in Rotterdam and Felixstowe will shortly move ...
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