January 2013
Container shipping line CMA CGM has agreed to sell its 49% of its share of its Terminal Link subsidiary to China Merchants Holdings (International) Company for €400 million. Terminal Link has a network of 15 terminals on key international shipping routeand provides stevedoring, storage and other container-handling activities to the world’s largest shipping lines. It is the 12th largest such operator in the world with 8.1m teu handled in 2011.
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OPDR Hamburg is offering its first direct container service from the UK to Casablanca, says UK agent John Good Shipping.
A revamped schedule will be operated by OPDR’s five sister vessels and will, for the first time, include a direct service between Felixstowe and Casablanca. In the past, this service has ...
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Lufthansa's 'time:matters' special speed logistics division has further expanded its network in China. Wuhan, Xi’an, Shenyang, Dalian, Shenzhen or Qingdao can now be reached from Frankfurt or Munich within 60-70 hours, including customs clearance in addition to the existing destinations of Shanghai and Hong Kong.
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Bunn Fertiliser Limited has signed a five-year deal with PD Ports to supply its Scottish and northern UK customers with urea and Koch Advanced Nitrogen fertiliser products via Teesport. Teesport's 80,000 square feet of storage capacity has been added to the company’s existing network of eight terminals.
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Tilbury-based The Logistics Terminal (TLT) says it has doubled its throughput in a year and now has an average of 160 containers a week passing through its hub. Aimed at companies looking to distribute goods in smaller quantities directly from a portcentric warehouse, TLT argues that it can reduce bottom-line ...
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One of the doyens of the airfreight industry, Emirates Skycargo divisional
senior vice-president Ram Menen is to retire after 27 years at the Middle
East carrier. Menen has been widely credited not only with building
Emirates' Skycargo up into the leading airline cargo operation since its
launch in 1985 but played a major role ...
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BIFA chose former Olympian and world champion Derek Redmond to host and announce the winners of the BIFA Freight Services Awards 2012 – the year of the London Olympics - at the trade association’s Annual Lunch and Awards Ceremony, attended by a record-breaking 520 guests.
All finalists received a framed certificate ...
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German-owned logistics company Dachser has acquired Spanish air and sea freight forwarder Transunion, subject to antitrust approval. The company has nine offices in Spain and is also represented in Turkey, Argentina, Peru and Mexico, with a staff of 235.
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IAG Cargo has appointed Rodrigo Casal as vice-president for the Latin America region and Tony Snell as regional commercial manager in Middle East and Africa. Rodrigo Casal was previously area commercial manager for LATAM North while Tony Snell previously worked in customer service management roles.
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The G6 Alliance - Mitsui O.S.K. Lines, MOL, APL, Hapag-Lloyd, Hyundai, NYK and OOCL - said on 17 January that it would maintain its current five-loop Asia-North Europe service in 2013 and would not reinstate the Loop 3 Asia-Europe service, suspended in October 2012. The carrier said it anticipated that ...
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