November 2013
The European Commission has launched a formal investigation into several container liner shipping companies to investigate whether they have engaged in anti-competitive pratices. The Commission says that the companies have been making generally similar regular public announcements on price increases and the date of their implementation since 2009. The Commission said this practice may allow the companies to signal future price intentions to each other, and may harm competition and ...
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Kuehne + Nagel has officially opened its new logistics center in Atlanta. The city is KN’s regional headquarters for the US southeast and the purpose-built 236,000sq ft office and logistics centre will offer cross docking, picking/packing, quality checking, bonded warehousing, consolidation and deconsolidation, customs brokerage, trade compliance and security screening. ...
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Magdeburg/Cochstedt international airport officially opened its first cargo and logistics centre on 21 November in the presence of Saxony‐Anhalt Minister for Economy and Trade, Hartmut Möllring and Secretary of State Dr. Klaus Klang. Danish operator Airport Development is spending €8 million on developing the gateway in the east of the ...
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An Antonov-124 chartered by the Department for International Development (DFID) has brought in cargo loading gear to double the amount of aid that can flow through the Philippines’ Cebu airport. The equipment includes a main deck loader, forklifts, a tow tractor, a 4x4, pallets, oil and tools. Cebu is now ...
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A 540kg consignment of herbal cannabis weighing with an estimated street value of over £2.7m was seized by Border Force officers at the Port of Felixstowe on 4 October. The drugs had been shipped from the Netherlands concealed in a trailer carrying a legitimate cargo of potted plants.
A 52-year-old man ...
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Unite members at UPS's Camden depot will hold a 24-hour strike from midnight tomorrow (Friday 22 November)in a dispute over workloads and alleged bullying. It follows the failure of last ditch negotiations with management on 20 November to resolve the dispute. Unite regional officer Onay Kasab warned that further industrial ...
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Europa, the pan-European logistics company taken over by former RH Freight owner Andrew Baxter, has officially opened a new office in Leeds. New recruits Miles O’Donnell and Nathan Lynn have also received an intensive and comprehensive introduction to the company.
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A 747 Dreamlifter used to transport wing assemblies for Boeing's 787 Dramliner aircraft that was feared stranded at Colonel James Jabara airport in Kansas has safely taken off. The aircraft, a modified version of the 747-400 freighter with a bulbous upper fuselage was heading for McConnell air force base in ...
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Improvements in the Stifel Logistics Confidence Index continued into November as the overall index climbed 2.5 index points to 57.1, says transport consultancy Ti. The index has remained above 50 since February - not only its highest level but the first time that the individual air and sea indices have ...
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Tilbury's London Container Terminal has signed a deal to handle OPDR (Oldenburg-Portugiesische Dampfschiffs-Rhederei) services between the Iberian Peninsula, Canary Islands, North Africa and the UK.
OPDR will switch from Felixtowe to LCT from December starting with two calls on services to and from the Canary Islands, Andalusia, Portugal and Bilbao, followed ...
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