May 2014
Kuehne + Nagel has opened a new container freight station in Cambodia, in Phnom Penh’s special economic zone. It offers radio frequency scanning, one of only two such facilities in the country able to provide such a service. Located on National Road 4 close to most major manufactures, Phnom Penh international airport and the seaport, it offers 3,000sq m with four loading and receiving bays, a drive-in pallet rack system ...
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Norbert Dentressangle is to buy the logistics assets of MGF, a subsidiary of the G7 Group, consisting of nine warehouses in France. With a combined total storage area of 174,000m2, the warehouses are located mainly between the Paris area in northern France and Lyon, Toulouse and Marseille. They employ 272 people, ...
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The European Commission’s DG Transport is to hold a preliminary inquiry into Etihad's purchase of stakes in European airlines to see if they breach EU rules on ownership and control of European companies. The Abu Dhabi-based carrier has already taken stakes in Air Berlin and is in the processing of ...
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Emirates has become the first Middle East carrier to complete security validation for its Dubai hub under European Union's ACC3 scheme for air cargo carriers operating from third countries – ahead of the deadline on 1 July. Failure to complete the validation could have prohibited Emirates from transporting cargo into ...
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Now is not the right time to free up the cabotage trucking market in Europe, says the Freight Transport Association in response to recent moves by Brussels (see FBJ 3 2014, page 1).
Commenting on the recent European Commission (EC) report on integrating the internal market for road transport, FTA points ...
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FedEx Express has acquired Supaswift's businesses in South Africa, Botswana, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Swaziland and Zambia as part of its strategy to increase its African business. It gives the carrier direct access to 40 facilities and over 1,000 team members in the seven countries and FedEx is offering a complete ...
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Frank Robotham was named Multimodal 2014 Personality of the Year in the first-ever Multimodal Awards on Tuesday at a VIP dinner sponsored by DP World London Gateway.
Tesco was recognised for its outstanding contribution to sustainability and environmental performance by a Multimodal Award, in conjunction with the the Freight Transport Assocation, ...
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The Port of Tilbury’s London Paper Terminal has signed a new deal with Hemisphere Freight to handle over 20,000 tonnes of directories from Spain. It follows the relocation of shipping line, OPDR to Tilbury in December. Hemisphere controls the business of a major importer of directories from Spain. OPDR containers ...
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IAG Cargo has started its new five times per week freighter service between Hong Kong and London Stansted operated by a Qatar Airways Boeing 777F. CEO Steve Gunning said it marked an important new chapter in the carrier's history. The new service replaces freighters previously leased from Global Supply Systems. ...
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Howard Davies’s Airports Commission was considering the UK’s urgent lack of airport capacity only from the passenger perspective, Freight Transport Association director of global and European policy Chris Welsh, told a seminar at the Multimodal show on 1 May.
Cargo’s interests were getting “swamped” in what was turning into a highly ...
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