March 2014
The Global Shippers’ Forum called for a full investigation of the proposed P3 shipping alliance’s impact on price and service of the at its third annual meeting in Los Angeles on 18 March.
UK-headquartered GSF is urging US Federal Maritime Commission (FMC) and the European Commission to take steps to ensure that the P3 Global Alliance cannot restrict competition, reduce choice or influence rates resulting from its potential dominate position.
The P3 ...
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US Airways Cargo has joined American Airlines Cargo's operations at New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport (JFK), in the first stage of a programme to co-locate operations across the combined network, While the two carriers continue to operate independently, the co-located facility allows American and US Airways customers to ...
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Air Charter Service is to open a new office in Houston, Texas in May. It will cater particularly to the oil and gas industry under the leadership of current New York office cargo sales manager, Dustin Roades.
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Not content with being the official logistics supplier to the Glasgow Commonwealth Games, DB Schenker is also playing a similar role for a competition that many consider the ‘Olympics of Beer’. Every two years, the best brewers in the world enter their finest beers into the World Beer Cup, organised ...
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The Daily Mirror website (www.mirror.co.uk) is carrying a report suggesting that missing Malaysian Airlines flight MH370 may have been brought down by a cargo fire. It quotes former US Federal Aviation Administration head of security Billie Vincent who suggests that the pilots struggled to save their aircraft after a blaze ...
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New chair of the Association of Freight Software Suppliers (AFSS) Gordon Tutt says he is close to signing a memorandum of understanding with pan-European alliance of customs-related service providers, EurTradeNet. Members of both groups will be able to exchange information and collaborate on common issues and concerns within the EU ...
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Web based customs management system provider, e-customs is allowing low volume users to submit customs declarations free of charge on its Webdecs system. A free service is currently available on the Government Gateway but e-customs says it is offering many features which most international traders and businesses would regard as ...
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Street furniture in St Helens had to be dismantled recently to get two massive seven-metre diameter, 7.5 tonne flanges from Lancashire to Hartlepool recently. It also required all the expertise and knowledge of WWL ALS UK International's operations team in Hull. The loads were so wide that they had to ...
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The freight industry welcomed the report by HS2 chairman David Higgins on the planned HS2 north-south high speed rail line, published on 17 March.
Higgins called for the first section of the line to be built from London to Crewe, rather than only from London to Birmingham, as originally envisaged. The ...
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Kintetsu World Express will open a new logistics centre in Prachinburi, eastern Thailand in January 2015. It is clustered with automobile maker plants and various other manufacturing plants in the Rojana Industrial Park. A packaging service plant will open alongside the new logistics centre.
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