October 2013
Forwarders that provide involved logistics services such as warehousing and distribution, procurement of additional product for sub-assembly and packaging and even software uploading are opening themselves up to more extended liability, insurers the TT Club told a workshop organised by the UAE’s National Association of Forwarding and Logistics (NAFL) in early October.
TT warned that these demands often put an onerous risk on the forwarder, who is under considerable competitive pressure ...
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Forwarding and logistics group Charles Gee has gone into administration – barely a year after celebrating its 125th anniversary in 2012. The company cited cash flow problems for the decision to call in administrators from FRP Advisory, which will continue to manage the company's day to day operations while a ...
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Schenker Limited, the UK arm of DB Schenker Logistics, has welcomed 13 more young people to its National Apprenticeship programme – its fourth intake since the programme started in 2010. The new group will be based from a variety of locations in the UK and will undertake a two year ...
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The European Union reached an agreement in principle on a comprehensive economic and trade agreement (CETA) with Canada on 18 October. It would remove tariffs from about 93% of products in the EU including wines, spirits and chocolate although there will be larger annual quotas on beef, pork and sweetcorn ...
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Finnlines says that it played no part in an attempt to smuggle banned material from Russia to Syria last January. The case concerns a containerload of tank spares that was unloaded from the M/S Finnsun at Vuosaari Harbour in Helsinki on 8 January.
The Finnish Customs investigationrevealed that the container was ...
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Samskip's Van Dieren Multimodal subsidiary is adding a rail shuttle link between its main European hub at Duisburg and Copenhagen from 4 November. It will provide a daily service between Germany and the Danish capital, and also link together Samskip's mulitmodal and shortsea services, including Tilbury, Hull, Grangemouth, Belfast, Dublin, ...
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Forth Ports has been named as the official Supplier of Port Services for the Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games. It will supply 350 40ft shipping containers to pack and store equipment purchased from London 2012 Organisers, LOCOG for use in the Glasgow 2014 Athletes Villages including beds, tables and lamps, as ...
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Stena Line will be adding extra freight capacity to its Belfast-Liverpool service in the shape of the Stena Hibernia from Tuesday 5 November. She will initially operate eight sailings per week departing Liverpool Tuesday to Friday at 0300 and Belfast Tuesday to Friday at 1500. Route manager Irish Sea North, ...
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The first group of young people graduated from the High Tide Foundation’s Summer Scheme on Teesside at a ceremony at Ryehills School in Redcar on 14 October. The scheme was launched to help young people leaving school gain an understanding of life in the work place, as well as the ...
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Air Partner Freight has moved 250 tonnes of urgent cosmetics from Paris to New York on a series of chartered IAG Cargo 747-8 freighter flights. The broker's client urgently needed to transport 1,200 non-stackable pieces (1,500 cubic metres) from Paris to New York, to meet an urgent deadline. Thanks to ...
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