December 2013
Peel Ports Group has appointed Jones Lang LaSalle and B8 Real Estate to master-plan and market the former Bridgewater paper mill site at Ellesmere Port as a logistics hub. Plans for the site on the banks of the Manchester Ship Canal got the green light from local planning authorities earlier this year.
Peel plans to transform the 75-acre brownfield site into a multimodal port hub, offering customers an enhanced port centric ...
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DHL Express' Belfast gateway terminal has become the 100th facility in its European network to gain Transported Asset Protection Association (TAPA) ‘A’ security certification. This brings the total number of TAPA ‘A’ certified facilities in the DHL global network to 242. The TAPA certification process focuses on the way in ...
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One of Volga-Dnepr Airlines’ IL-76 freighters recently carried an 18-metre bus from Turin to Astana, Kazakhstan.
Iveco Italy urgently needed to deliver the bus to the capital of Kazakhstan for a special promotion on 25 November and the flight, was organised by Chapman-Freeborn Airchartering Italy was confirmed the following day.
There were ...
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IAG's new B787 passenger aircraft will go into service on routes from London Heathrow to Hyderabad on 30 March 2014, followed by Chengdu (5 May), Philadelphia (5 June and Calgary (5 July). Its new A380 will begin begin serving Heathrow/Johannesburg in February 2014 and Heathrow-Washington from 1 September.
IAG Cargo managing ...
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French ferry operator LD Lines is introducing a new weekly service between Poole and the Spanish port of Gijón from 5 January and another between Rosslare in Ireland via St.Nazaire in Western France and on to Gijón. There will be a two-ship operation using the Norman Asturias and sister ship ...
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Express delivery company fedEx is reminding customers that its final FedEx collection date before Christmas will be 23 December, while the final delivery date will be 24 December.
However, to ensure recipients are definitely around to receive goods, FedEx recommends sending any parcels as early as possible to avoid disappointment come ...
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DHL Express will double the area of its main European hub in Leipzig, Germany. A €150 million scheme - bringing DHL’s total investment in its Leipzig hub to date to over €510m - will add around 40 000m² of additional warehousing and offices and a new shipment sorting system will ...
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Two of the largest US carriers have merged, with the completion of the deal between AMR Corporation – owners of American Airways - and US Airways Group. The new American Airlines will have a network with nearly 6,700 daily flights to more than 330 destinations in more than 50 countries ...
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CMA CGM Group will make a major reorganisation of its services between North Europe, the Med and West Africa from mid-December including the addition of UK and Nigeria calls on its PC Weekly service. The seven 3,500teu vessels on the service will call at vessels of 3, 500 teu Tilbury ...
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The World Trade Organization has agreed a potentially revolutionary trade deal at its summit in bali over the weekend of 7-8 December. In what is billted as the first truly global trade deal sice the WTO replaced the GATT (General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade) organisation in the mid 1990s, ...
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