November 2013
Hellmann Worldwide Logistics has appointed Henrik Lund as a director for its global airfreight sector. In a 30-year career in logistics, he has held positions at Panalpina, DHL, Exel and Shipco Transport. In his new position he will be based in Hamburg and will be reporting directly to Mark Hellmann, Chairman of the Global Air Cargo Board at Hellmann.
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Yusen Logistics and Imperial Health Sciences will launch the pharmaceutical industry’s first dedicated, temperature controlled sea freight consolidation service to southern Africa in January 2014.
Claimed to be the first total solution for pharma on this trade lane, the weekly service has been developed in response to demand from pharmaceutical customers ...
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DHL's Global Forwarding air and ocean freight specialist has appointed Rajeev Singh-Molares as its new CEO for Europe, Middle East and Africa. He will succeed Thomas Nieszner, who is leaving DHL at his request to pursue other interests and will report directly to Roger Crook, CEO DHL Global Forwarding, Freight. ...
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Long-established freight and shipping company forwarder the Charles Gee Group is to be wound up after administrators failed to find a buyer for the forwarding part of the business. The company, which employed 250 staff went into receivership on 21 October, citing “acute cash flow pressures” and appointed FRP Advisory ...
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Drinks industry forwarding specialist JF Hillebrand Group has appointed Christophe Bernard as chief executive officer. He replaces Gerard Desbois, who served as the company’s CEO since 2000, who will now join the Supervisory Board. Mr Bernard joined JF Hillebrand in 1983 and has been an executive board member for the ...
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DB Schenker has extended its agreement to provide the International Paralympic Committee (IPC), headquartered in Bonn, Germany with logistics, freight forwarding and customs clearance services for four years. The periodincludes the Sochi 2014 and Rio de Janeiro 2016 Paralympic Games as well as other key IPC events. IPC and DB ...
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The Unite trade union, has announced a 48 hour strike from 04:00 21 November by its 101 members employed by Menzies World Cargo, who work at the DHL facility at Heathrow. The dispute is over pay, with Menzies staff working on the DHL contract at Heathrow saying they earn up ...
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Abu Dhabi-based Etihad Airways announced firm orders for 56 new Boeing wide-body aircraft, 87 Airbus aircraft, plus purchase rights for a further 56 planes at the Dubai Air Show on 17 November. The deal includes one Boeing 777-200 freighter, one Airbus A330-200F freighter, 25 next-generation Boeing 777s, 30 787-10 Dreamliners, ...
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IAG Cargo has offered aid agencies the use of one of its 747 freighter aircraft to fly emergency aid to the Philippines, with one of its planes, with capacity for up to 120 tonnes of cargo, scheduled to fly out from Stansted on Monday, November 18. Two of IAG Cargo’s ...
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Marvin Schlanger is to retire as chief executive officer of Netherlands-based supply chain management company Ceva Logistics on 2 January, 2014 and will be succeeded by Xavier Urbain of Kuehne + Nagel. Mr Urbain has served on the management board and board of directors and in several senior executive positions ...
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