January 2014
UK pallet network Palletforce will start a service to Germany in conjunction with its German network partner Online Systemlogistik on 3 February.
The service will carry the branding of Allnet, an alliance of European networks of which Palletforce is a member and also including Palet System in France, One Express in Italy and Online Systemlogistik in Germany.
Palletforce chief executive, Michael Conroy (pictured below) said: “It is very exciting to see our ...
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European multimodal transport operator Samskip Multimodal and Intercombi (ICL) Transport, a subsidiary of the leading logistics company Turkey Netlog Logistics Group have launched a joint service between Turkey and Europe.
Initially the initiative GreenBridge Multimodal service will offer three block trains per week between the Samskip Multimodal rail terminal in Duisburg ...
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UK/France ro ro operator Brittany Ferries has become the first cross-Channel ferry line to order a new vessel powered by liquified natural gas (LNG) on its routes from the UK to Santander and Bilbao in northern Spain. The €270 million (£225m) ship will be built by STX France in St ...
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Emirates is to double its Dubai-Dublin service with a second daily non-stop Boeing 777-300ER flight from 1 September. Timings have been scheduled to facilitate onward connections from Dubai to major destinations in Australia and New Zealand, with shorter journey times into Auckland, Melbourne and Brisbane. Following the partnership agreement with ...
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The Swiss competition (COMCO) has fined 12 airlines a total of Sfr11 million (£7.4m) for price-fixing between 200 and 2005. An investigation realed that the carriers had colluded on freight rates, fuel surcharges, war risk surcharges and US customs clearance surcharges. The carriers concerned were Korean Air Lines, Atlas Air ...
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Austrian Airlines is to relaunch its services to the Iranian capital Tehran, from 11 March, subject to regulatory approval. Airbus A320 or A319 flights will operate five times a week in the summer schedule, departing Vienna at 20.10. Austrian dropped Tehran from its schedule in January 2013, citing commercial reasons.
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The European Parliament approved a proposal for the next generation of tamper-proof satellite-equipped digital tachographs on 15 January. With the European Council already signed up to the plan, the new rules should be adopted shortly although the European Commission still needs to adopt technical specifications, expected this year. The devices ...
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DP World Southampton has taken delivery of six new Kalmar straddle-carriers worth over £3.6million as part of a £150m investment by Associated British Ports to prepare for the next generation of ultra large container vessels.
The straddle carriers arrived fully assembled on board the ro-ro vessel MV Meri from Gdynia, Poland, ...
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The Van der Vlist group's Zwaar Transport Twente has moved a containerised biogas generato from the Nordrhein – Westfalen area of Germany to a farm in Crowle, North Lincolnshire. As can be seen, it was a very tight squeeze getting the load through a low bridge, a mile from final ...
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Steve Gunning has been appointed to the International Airlines Group (IAG) management committee as CEO, IAG Cargo. He has spent the past two years integrating the British Airways and Iberia cargo divisions into a single business and before this was managing director for BA World Cargo.
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