February 2013
FedEx Express has been named the official carrier of the Big Egg Hunt 2013. Teaming up with Action for Children, one of the UK's leading children's charities, FedEx move 101 oversized eggs, created by leading artists and designers, between London's Covent Garden, Birmingham, Liverpool, Manchester and Glasgow, using its fleet of new double decker articulated vehicles
FedEx employees will also volunteer their time, skills and fundraising efforts around the country and ...
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Garuda Indonesia is to introduce direct flights from London Gatwick to Jakarta from late 2013. The route will be operated by Boeing 777-300 Extended Range aircraft.
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The International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO) is set to ban aircraft batteries being transported as cargo in the bellyholds of passenger planes. It follows the fire incidents on the Boeing 787 'Dreamliner' fleet in January that led to widespread grounding on the new aircraft, according to press reports. Currently, there ...
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Shipping line CMA CGM has finalised its financial restructuring launched about a year ago, including an agreement with its banks on its debt restructuring. The French Fonds Stratégique d’Investissement will subscribe to bonds giving right to a 6% stake in CMA CGM upon conversion, while the Turkish Yildirim Group will ...
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A specialist ro ro ship which was grounded off the North Wales coast for more than a week was successfully re-floated over the weekend, according to local press reports. The MV Cuidad de Cadiz, which moves Airbus A380 wings from Airbus' Broughton plant to France, was unstuck with the help ...
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Skills for Logistics reports that its Military Work Placement Scheme has achieved a ratio of 30% job offers to placement since its launch in November. The scheme aims to fund companies to provide nearly 1,000 work placements to ex-forces personnel in 2013, in jobs ranging from senior director positions through ...
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Transport Minister Stephen Hammond got a chance to see the fully automated stacking cranes (ASCs) currently being installed at the UK’s new national hub port, London Gateway, on 11 February. Port owner DP World says that the state-of-the-art equipment will increase reliability and ensure smoother, more efficient operations 24 hours ...
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Once again, Lufthansa Cargo is flying millions of red roses on fully-laden freighters to Europe for Valentine’s Day on 14 February. All told in the next few days, the cargo carrier will be shipping around 1,000 tonnes of the traditional lovers’ tokens from Africa and South America to Europe via ...
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Multimodal reveals seminar programme
The Multimodal exhibition and conference due to take place at the Birmingham NEC April 23-25 has announced its seminar programme, which is now bookable at www.multimodal.org.uk
Speakers include Justin Kirkhope of the Co-operative, Jacob Sterling, head of environment & CSR at Maersk Line and Peter Ward from DP ...
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Teesside logistics company AV Dawson, has signed a 40-year-deal to site a pioneering waste-to-energy plant at its Riverside Park base in Middlesbrough.
Greenlight AD Power’s energy plant is the first project in the UK to benefit from the Government’s Green Investment Bank (GIB) with funding of £8m matched with funding from ...
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