December 2013
FedEx team members at 21 UK locations have collected around 1,400 kilograms of food for foodbanks operated by the Trussell Trust since September. The food, more than enough to fill a FedEx courier van, provides a total of 2,670 meals for those living below the poverty line, all delivered by FedEx to local foodbanks. The activity is part of the FedEx Cares initiative in which team members across the world ...
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Norbert Dentressangle has renewed a major contract with Anglo-Italian helicopter company, AgustaWestland. The logistics firm works with the UK operation of AgustaWestland, based at Yeovil in Somerset to move critical parts with dedicated teams from its Specialist Services business on-site and at the Royal Naval Air Station (RNAS) Culdrose in ...
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PD Ports has secured a new ten year contract with one of its most important customers, tea and coffee specialists Taylors of Harrogate. It will include a £1.75m refurbishment of PD Ports’ 115,000sq ft warehousing facilities at Billingham, near Teesport. Work commenced on refurbishing the existing facilities at the end ...
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Angela Black, commercial manager of Tilbury’s London Container Terminal welcomed the captain of the OPDR Cadiz with the first shipment of Spanish potatoes this week. They arrived on the first vessel of OPDR’s weekly Bilbao service which has switched to LCT.
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Famous Pacific Shipping (FPS) Group says that it has launched the first ever direct ocean LCL service has been launched between northern Europe and Fiji. The forwarding and NVOCC system's new link uses weekly CMA CGM sailings from Rotterdam to Suva, slashing transit times from 55-60 to 36 days and ...
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Freight software specialist ASM says it has “saved Christmas” with a new module designed to help importers cope with Customs' new LVBI (Low Value Bulked Imports) procedures. These mainly affect items worth between £15 and £135, which covers many of the goods bought online, and which now have to be ...
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A delivery flight of a new A330 aircraft has been pressed into used to send water sanitation equipment and food to help typhoon victims. Airbus and Philippine Airlines (PAL), in conjunction with Action Against Hunger, used the delivery flight of PAL’s brand new A330 aircraft to send 19 tonnes of ...
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FedEx Express is doing its bit for the environment by replacing 32 tons of paperwork including navigation charts and manuals carried on its planes and distributing over 4,300 iPads to its pilots. The express carrier says that the move is equivalent to removing 780 cars from the road driving 12,000 ...
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Russian Customs says it plans to work with other Russian authorities, Belarus and Kazakhstan towards a single transit system in Euraasia, reports Finnish logistics specialist, Nurminen. The Russian customs service also plans to open negotiations with the International Road Transport Union (IRU) on updating the TIR Convention.
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Cash for Felixstowe road, but more work needed on port demand
Improvements to the A14 main road link to the port of Felixstowe aare included in the Government's £375 billion National Infrastructure Plan, unveiled on 4 December. Chief Secretary to the Treasury, said the plan, partly funded by investment from the ...
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