November 2013
The air charter industry swung into action quickly to help victims of the Philippines typhoon.
On 13 November, Air Partner said it had organised four Boeing 777 and two 747 flights to the Philippines, carrying 600 tonnes of vehicles, tents, shelter kits and tarpaulins from East Midlands Airport and the UAE to Mactan Cebu airport. Working around the clock, it's experience broking team had been able to react quickly to the ...
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A Lufthansa Airbus A340-600 flew 25 tonnes of emergency aid from Frankfurt to Manilla over the weekend of 9-10 November. Filling the belly space of the passenger aircraft were 5,400 fleece blankets, 3,000 plastic tarpaulins, tents and medical supplies for the area devastated by the super typhoon in the Philippines. ...
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Rugby-based Exact Logistics says its export sales have passed the £1 million mark after buying into German transport system CTL. CTL, a company owned by individual transport firms offers a 72 hour service to or from Germany. Exact's managing director Adam Shuter said that 30% of his customers were now ...
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IAG Cargo reported commercial revenue down 14.1% against the same period last year in its Q3 results (July to September), at €256 million. The Iberia-BA joint venture blamed the strengthening of the Euro against other currencies over the last year for some of the reduction. At a constant exchange rate, ...
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MAG Property, the property, development and facilities management arm of the UK airport group, has let 20,000 sq ft of warehouse at the World Freight Terminal at Manchester Airport to UCH Logistics. Staines-based UCH provides specialist transport and security screening services to the airfreight industry. General manager in Manchester, Nova ...
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Irish Ferries is to add a third ship to its Dublin to Holyhead in December. Currently, the ferry company operates eight sailings per day with its flagship Ulysses and the high speed craft Jonathan Swift. The chartered the Epsilon, built in 2011 will provide two additional departures per day in ...
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London Gateway handled its first scheduled vessel, the ‘MOL Caledon’ from South Africa on 7 November, the culmination of over a decade of planning and construction on three square miles of development on the Essex bank of the Thames.
The port's owner, DP World, says that London Gateway is closer to ...
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Cargolux has added a new weekly 747 freighter flight from Luxembourg on Wednesday to Viracopos, Brazil and Buenos Aires, returning via Latacunga, Bogota, Aguadilla, Puerto Rico and Manston in the UK.
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City Link has completed its portfolio of new international products with the launch of a new international tracked packet service.
Packet Worldwide complements City Link’s international parcel services and its untracked packet service, Citypack Worldwide, which was launched in the summer. It offers a similar delivery schedule to Citypack Worldwide: 3-5 ...
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The UK Major Ports Group has called on MEPs to withdraw or suspend the proposed regulation on liberalisation of port services to allow time to assess the question thoroughly. The mainly private sector UK ports, supported by others, including Rotterdam, are unhappy at the European Commission's plans to impose detailed ...
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