October 2013
Schenker Limited has appointed Michael Sims as its new ocean freight director. He replaces Glen Boyce who has taken up a full-time role within the group as head of ocean freight, region Europe North, at DB Schenker Logistics.
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The British International Freight Association is warning of a scam involving Chinese freight forwarders. UK forwarders receive emails that appear to be from independent forwarding companies in China looking for UK partners and offering cheap ocean rates.
But cargoes arrive at the UK port without the UK forwarder having received the ...
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Volga-Dnepr Airlines’ used one of its Antonov AN-124-100 freighters to deliver over 90 tons of oilfield equipment from Calgary in Canada to the Russian city of Surgut. The transportation was ordered by CIS region forwarder Dialog Freight International.
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Unifeeder is to acquire United Feeder Services (UFS) and will combined their networks in Northern Europe and the Mediterranean, creating the largest pan-European operator of its kind, say the companies.
Unifeeder and UFS will continue to trade as separate companies and with separate organisations but combine their capabilities to improve services ...
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