February 2013
AirBridgeCargo Airlines, part of Volga-Dnepr Group, completed the first of a series of charter flights from Frankfurt to Sochi for the winter Olympics.
The airline expects increasing demand for transport of heavy and oversized cargo with construction of sports and infrastructure projects in Sochi now underway. It will also provide all other customers of AirBridgeCargo with a direct uplift solution for general cargo to this dynamically developing region of the Russian ...
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Freight forwarder U-Freight Singapore has turned its logistics hub into an art gallery. It has set up a new division, ArtSafe to promote its logistics hub as a fine arts storage facility but which can also be used as an exhibition space to showcase work by local artists.
A large area ...
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Parcels company DPD has launched a new service aimed at reducing the cost and hassle of international home deliveries. DPD Direct simplifies customs and duty issues for retailers, provides a full tracking and returns service and generates in-country notifications for recipients, in their own language.
Retailers River Island and Rocks TV ...
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Less than a year after its last vessel upgrade in May 2012, Peel Ports has invested in a still larger vessel for its Manchester Ship Canal container service – thanks to a marked increase in demand from customers including Kellogg, Princes Foods and Kingsland Wine.
The Coastal Deniz can carry 260 teu ...
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One year on from its formation on the Asia-to-Europe trade lane, the G6 Alliance is to expand its cooperation to the Asia-to-North America East Coast trade. The G6 - APL, Hapag-Lloyd, Hyundai Merchant Marine, Mitsui O.S.K. Lines, Nippon Yusen Kaisha and Orient Overseas Container Line - will deploy more than ...
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ZIM will make some changes to its services between Asia, the Indian Subcontinent, Eastern Med and North Europe, aimed at improving coverage, reliability and availability.
The India Sub-Continent-Europe trade will be served on the INE service, serving Tilbury, Nhava Sheva and Mundra. The Med-North Europe trade will be served by two ...
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DB Schenker Rail has formally taken over as the new operator of the Telford International Railfreight Park. The terminal, opened in June 2009 and with a capacity of up to four trains a day, was initially funded by a combination of Telford & Wrekin Council, Advantage West Midlands, the Homes ...
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Jim Steer FCILT has become the new president-elect of the Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport UK (CILT). He will take over the one-year role from Graham Inglis from May 2013. Jim Steer is a co-founder of the transport planning company, Steer Davies Gleave (SDG), which began operations in 1978.
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GB Railfreight (GBRf) has told the Transport Select Committee's inquiry into Access to Ports that barriers to rail operators should be eliminated. Future growth strategy and investment plans should treat ports and rail as one combined system of transport rather than separate entities, it says.
The company, which operates from 11 ...
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South Yorkshire has a new purpose-built international freight terminal - Sheffield International Freight Terminal (SH-I-F-T). The 14,000sq ft terminal, at Grange Mill Lane, near junction 34 of the M1, will be one of only two bonded warehouses in South Yorkshire and plans are already in place to extend the terminal ...
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