October 2013

Freightliner moves Zim boxes from London Gateway

Rail freight operator Freightliner also answered the call to move containers for the Midlands unloaded from the Zim Rotterdam from the new London Gateway port import containers destined for the Hams Hall terminal in the Midlands. A Freightliner train arrived at the port at 10am on 30 September, to load boxes discharged from the fire-damaged container ship and were delivered to customers early the following day. Some boxes from the ship, ... [+]

New man in Asia Pacific for Virgin

Virgin Atlantic Cargo has appointed Neil Vernon as regional vice president sales for its Asia Pacific region. He joins the airline from bmi where he spent 13 years as part of the cargo team. At Virgin, he will be based in Hong Kong and reports to head of sales, Nick ... [+]

All change at Panalpina

Panalpina Group is appointing a chief commercial officer (CCO) and setting up a fourth Middle East, Africa and the CIS (MEAC) region headquartered in Dubai from 1 January. Countries in the current region Europe, Middle East, Africa and CIS will be split among the new MEAC and Europe regions, to ... [+]

More areas added to Russia’s TIR ban

The creeping extension of the Russian TIR ban is continuing, with the restrictions also being applied to the Privolzhsky Customs Directorate, the International Road Transport Union reported on 2 October. The IRU said that the move would particularly affect the Bashkortostan, Nizhegorodskaya, Orenburg, Perm, Samara, Saratov, Tatarstan, Ulyanovsk and Privolzhskaya ... [+]

John Good is agent for new Bilbao/Felixstowe link

Short sea shipping and logistics specialist OPDR (Oldenburg-Portugiesische Dampfschiffs-Rhederei) and Team Lines are to launch a new domestic and feeder container service between Bilbao, Felixstowe and Rotterdam on 13 October. The service will provide a fixed day schedule with fast transit times between Northern Spain and the UK, as well ... [+]

Yusen Cambodia ready to go

Yusen Logistics (Cambodia) will start operations on 1 November, said the Japanese owned forwarder. Yusen Logistics set up a Phnom Penh representative office in 2011 and has expanded its business through local partners , prompting the company to launch its own corporation. Yusen Logistics has developed a range of forwarding ... [+]

Growing business for Palletways

Palletways has won a new contract with Italian importer distributor and retailer, OrganiCulture. The company will outsource its domestic warehousing and distribution to Palletways Fulfilment, the Group’s warehousing solutions operation, following a successful trial period including a pick/pack service, modification and re-work.     [+]

Green light for Daher sale

Norbert Dentressangle has gained approval from the French competition authorities for its agreement to take over Daher’s freight forwarding activities in France and three in Russia, announced on 16 July.     [+]

Schenker delves into Turkey interior

DB Schenker's national organization in Turkey is setting up its own domestic network for procurement and distribution. Services are already available from Edirne via Istanbul to distribution nodes at Bursa and Izmir and between Eskisehir, Afyon and Antalya. A third phase of the project is for services from Istanbul to ... [+]

New UK chief for Kuehne + Nagel

Kuehne + Nagel has appointed Marcus Bennett as national manager for its UK organisation. He succeeds Yngve Ruud who will move to the company’s Western Europe headquarters in Hamburg. Bennett is a 24-year KN veteran, and became national manager, Ireland ten years ago.   [+]

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