November 2013
London-based investment firm iCON Infrastructure Partners II has taken a 32% stake in Dutch-Belgian ports and logistics operator Verbrugge International.Martin Verbrugge will continue to be the majority owner of Verbrugge and iCON II will be providing substantial new funding to Verbrugge to support the company’s further growth and development. There will be no changes to Verbrugge’s executive management or workforce. Verbrugge operates port terminals at Terneuzen, Vlissingen and Zeebrugge on ...
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DB Schenker Rail UK is to take over track maintenance and rail operations at DP World London Gateway following the opening of the deep-water port.DBS will be responsible for controlling all rail movements and conducting safety checks at the rail terminal as well as providing dedicated ground staff services for ...
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Pegasus Cargo has brought all its cargo reservations and sales activities in-house to its headquarters. They had been outsourced to SP Aviation since 16 March 2012. The Turkish carrier's vice president cargo of Pegasus Airlines, Aydin Alpa said: “Our department is continuously expanding. We are now dealing with cargo reservations ...
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Airbus Corporate Foundation, Emirates Airline, and Action Against Hunger have signed a partnership today to use future A380 Emirates deliver y flights over the next few years to transport humanitarian support to the United Nations Humanitarian Response Depot. The first goodwill flight, on 31 October, delivered 31 tonnes of food ...
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MIAT Mongolian Airlines has awarded its cargo general sales agency contract for the whole of Europe to Globe Air Cargo. The airline operates twice-weekly Boeing 767-300ER flights from Berlin’s Tegal Airport (increasing to four in summer) to Ulaanbaatar, the largest city and capital of Mongolia. Globe Air Cargo, part of ...
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A New Truck Parking App for Europe aims to end truck drivers' daily struggle to find a place to stop. German-based transport software specialist PTV Group, is offering a free web-based search application that is free of charge giving over 10,000 parking options along the main roads in Europe. Users ...
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MANP Terminal and forwarding and customs brokering company Avelana Logistics have launched the Ust-Luga Express, a new weekly rail service between Ust-Luga Container Terminal on the Baltic Sea and the MANP inland terminal, 45km south-west of Moscow.
The two companies say that the service is unusual in that it accepts shipments ...
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Cargolux Airlines flew two 747 relief flights to Manila on 16 and 19 November carrying supplies from various humanitarian aid organizations. In addition, Cargolux also transported tonnes of clothes, blankets, toys and other urgently needed items that were collected by Cargolux employees, relatives and friends, as well as by the ...
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Finnish-based Nurminen Logisticshas elected Olli Pohjanvirta (picture) as its new CEO, following the decision of current president and CEO, Topi Saarenhovi, to step down. Mr Pohjanvirta was previously acting chairman of the board. The Board of Directors has also appointed Tero Kivisaari as chairman.
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Air Charter Service Late now has an An12 operating from Cebu and Davao into Tacloban and Guiuan, easing the backlog of the aid brought in by the larger freighters to these hubs where the warehouses are full. Justin Lancaster, group cargo director at ACS, commented: “We decided to position the ...
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