November 2013
Kuehne + Nagel has appointed Pamela Doyle as national manager for Ireland. She succeeds Marcus Bennett who was recently appointed UK national manager for the United Kingdom.
With 13 years’ service in Kuehne + Nagel, Pamela Doyle has held senior positions within Airfreight, Human Resources and General Management and was most recently national operations director.
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Malta-based logistics company Carmelo Caruana has completed a six-week operation for Capricorn Energy to store and maintain oil and gas drilling equipment destined for North Africa. Capricorn is a wholly owned subsidiary of leading exploration firm, Cairn Energy.
The task involved the handling and inspection of 3,600 tonnes of casing joints ...
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Box haulier Roadways Container Logistics has has developed a driver training programme in collaboration with the Institute of Advanced Motorists. The scheme is part of the company's commitment to the statutory Certificate of Profession Competence scheme under which all truck drivers must undergo a set amount of training every year. ...
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Not to be outdone by its sister port, London Gateway, Southampton marked the start of three new transatlantic services with the inaugural call of Hapag-Lloyd’s Kobe Express on 5 November, just two days before its new rival within the DP World group was due to open. The south coast terminal ...
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DB Schenker is building a new logistics center in Pfungen near Zurich, Switzerland, scheduled to open in late March 2014. The SFR40 million facility, near the A1 and A51 highways, will combine the former Embrach and Kloten sites and offer integrated solutions. It will shorten cross-docking distances between land transport ...
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David Binks (below) has been appointed the new president of FedEx Express's Europe, Middle East and Africa region based at the company's EMEA headquarters in Brussels, Belgium. He has been with FedEx since 1983, most recently as senior vice president of European operations and will succeed Gerald Leary, who is ...
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Maersk Line global head of cargo management, Uffe Ernst-Frederiksen, of Maersk Line, has been appointed chairman of the container shipping industry-led Cargo Incident Notification System (CINS) organisation. He takes over the post of chairman from Reinhard Schwede of the cargo services / dangerous cargo department of Hapag-Lloyd. CINS, set up ...
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