February 2013
UPS has launched a new Access Point network in the UK as an alternative to home delivery for consumer customers. There is a choice of 600 delivery and return locations such as convenience stores, petrol stations and newsagents. It follows UPS's purchase, in February 2012 , of Belgian-based business to consumer delivery specialist Kiala, which has 6,500 retail locations in France, the Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg and Spain; UPS is now ...
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Conqueror Freight Network has joined the Elite Association of Logistic Networks. It is the tenth network to join the grouping, which aims to improve the quality of freight forwarder networks around the world. Founded in 2012, Madrid-head quartered Elite now says it has membership in 164 cities and 81 countries.
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NYK has joined a shipping industry initiative, alongside Shell, BP, Maersk, Stena, MOL and K-Line, to help rebuild Somalia. The scheme will provide initial funding of US$1 million to the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) in support of job creation and capacity building projects in the war-torn East African country ...
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Natural England says that it has no objections to limited night operations at Manston Airport near Ramsgate in Kent, saying that the proposed maximum of eight flights between 23.00 and 07.00 would be existing overall limits, the BBC has reported. Airport owner Infratil said that a small number of scheduled night ...
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The High Court has rejected a legal challenge by the RSPCA to stop the export of live animals to the Continent from the port of Ramsgate, according to the Farmers Weekly website. The animal welfare charity had asked for a judicial review after Thanet District Council lifted a temporary ban ...
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Luxembourg all-cargo airline Cargolux is to ask its shareholders for an additional US$100 million in convertible loan funding in the first quarter of 2013, under a new business plan agreed by the Board of Directors today (7 February). Speculation over the future of the carrier has mounted after Qatar Airways ...
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Baltic Air Charter Association (BACA) has chosen MAF, a humanitarian organisation that operates 135 light aircraft across 30 developing world countries, as its designated charity for 2013. MAF UK, which was founded by Air Force personnel after the Second World War, works with sister organisations in the US and Australia and ...
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Swedish transportation company Greencarrier has signed an agreement with the Swedish East India Company, owner of the replica 18th-century East Indiaman sailing ship, Götheborg. She will be used as a marketing platform for Greencarrier over the next two years. Håkan Beskow, president of the Swedish East India Company, said: “The agreement has ...
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Shipping line APL has appointed Peter Jongepier as regional president of its business in Europe. Mr Jongepier, who has been managing director of APL’s Benelux office, will be responsible for APL’s commercial activities in Europe the former Soviet Union and Turkey. He will be based in Uxbridge in the UK.
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DB Schenker Logistics is to build a €41 million integrated logistics centre close to Singapore's Changi International Airport. There will be a shared warehouse, for customers from various industries such as healthcare, electronics and automotive on a 54,520sq m floor area.
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