June 2013
ITN Productions and The Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport have joined forces in a new Global Logistics and Transport News, programme. CILT hopes it will help encourage talented young people into the profession and raise public awareness of the logistics industry. The programme, part of ITN Productions' new Transport News channel, will launch on Friday 14 June features interviews with many of the foremost professionals in transport and the ...
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John Batten will take over as managing director of all-cargo carrier Coyne Airways in September. Batten, who has over 35 years experience in the air freight industry, will be based at the airline's Dubai hub. Batten joins Coyne Airways from Swissport Cargo Services, where he was executive vice president global ...
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Allport Cargo Services has sold its Specialist Services division to Bishopsgate Specialist Installations. Commenting on the sale, Allport's joint MD, Danny Clayton said "Specialist Services has been operating as a division of Allport since 1977, over which time it has built an enviable client portfolio, a unique team of professionals ...
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The Bristol Port Company has welcomed the Energy and Climate Change Select Committee [ECCC]'s report on the Severn Barrage giving the thumbs down to the Hafren Power scheme, on 10 June.
MPs on the committee said they were not convinced that the economic case for the proposed barrage is strong enough ...
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Procrastination and “ludicrous alternatives” are delaying the inevitable decision to expand Heathrow as the country's main hub airport, says Peter MacSwiney, chairman of freight industry software, ASM.
Expansion of the country's largest airport has become a fraught political issue and Heathrow is living on the reputation of ‘what it once was’ ...
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The UK Warehousing Association (UKWA) is warning that HM Revenue & Customs
(HMRC) could drive long established and honest logistics services firms out of business with its “draconian” sanctions on companies in the excise goods supply chain. The Association says that logistics service businesses – including third party warehouse keepers and ...
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DHL has launched DHL Thermonet, a new temperature controlled Life Sciences air freight service. This new addition to DHL’s network of Life Sciences and Healthcare facilities offers a transparent and a regulatory compliant platform. It provides higher visibility with proactive monitoring and intervention 24 hours a day, 365 days a ...
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The NYK Group's fowarding arm, Yusen Logistics has launched weekly LCL services from Hong Kong and Shanghai to Southampton. Using only “premium carriers” and high security standards, it offers a transit time of 24 days from Hong Kong to Southampton and 30 days from Shanghai.With its own managed de-van facility and ...
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Volga-Dnepr Airlines moved one of Eurocopter’s Super Pumas and two Sikorsky S-92s from Mount Pleasant in the Falkland Islands and Philadelphia, US, to Bergen, Norway. The Super Puma was loaded onboard one of the airline’s AN-124-100 freighters in Mount Pleasant before the aircraft continued to Philadelphia to pick up two brand ...
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Marks & Spencer (M&S) and DP World London Gateway have jointly announced that M&S will build a major new distribution centre at the new deep-sea container port and logistics park, which opens later this year on the Thames in South Essex, just 25 miles from central London.
Locating M&S’ new distribution ...
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