January 2014
Evergreen Line has signed charter agreements for ten 14,000 teu containerships to be delivered during 2016 and 2017. They will replace existing vessels and will have substantially lower fuel consumption than older tonnage.
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OPDR has also set up its own Moroccan company, OPDR Maroc Sarlau in Casablanca. The line offers up to three regular sailings per week to and from Morocco. A weekly direct service connects Tilbury and north European ports with Casablanca and vice-versa and a second via the Canary Islands.
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Austrian Airlines will add a fourth daily A320 service between Vienna and London Heathrow from 30 March, departing the Austrian capital at 12.45 and returning at 15.20.
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John Barnett – who in 1979 founded Wexco Airfreight, one of the earliest UK airfreight general sales and services agencies – died on 8 January, following a long illness.
Peter Kales, chairman of the Kales Group, which eventually bought Wexco, said it was “a testament to his extraordinary hard work and ...
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British logistics company, Knights of Old has launched a new service with Transland Spedition in Germany. This new partnership is expected to enhance services to the Hesse region of the country.
Transland, which was established in 1979 is based in Haiger, and gives Knights quick transit times to German destinations and ...
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The first UK feeder service has operated from the new London Gateway port, to PD Ports’ Teesport in north-east England. BG Freight Line's Cetus J, berthed at DP World’s London Gateway before making her scheduled visit to Teesport on December 28.
Geoff Lippitt, PD Ports’ business development director, said: “We are ...
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Transfennica has introduced larger ships on its Zeebrugge – Bilbao ro ro and container route. The MV Forerunner and MV Forecaster will operate two sailings per week in each direction, offering a capacity of 3,000 lane metres compared with the previous vessels’ 2,700 lane metres.There are also 12 cabins for ...
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FedEx Express has opened its first station in Belo Horizonte, Brazil and its second in Rio de Janeiro. The new Rio facility is in the Barra da Tijuca region on Avenida das Américas, more convenient for many areas of the city than the existing site at Olaria, which however is ...
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International design, engineering and risk management consultancy BMT Surveys has launched a new App giving mobile access to its CargoHandbook database. As well as a basic description and photograph of the cargo product, users can access information on the shipment and storage requirements including optimum temperature or humidity. The App ...
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Recruitment and logistics consultancy BiS Henderson has appointed Paul Brooks as managing director of its BiS Henderson Academy. The Academy has been created to support organisations in developing their talent pools, specifically through inspiring young people into the logistics industry. Paul Brooks joins from Unipart Logistics where he was a ...
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