June 2014
Creative industries logistics specialist, Sound Moves has unveiled its refurbished facility at Ashford near London Heathrow airport, having acquired its long-term home, Abbeygate House.
The refurbished building includes a crew break room, state-of-the-art boardroom with video-training facilities - and a 1950s theatre-themed reception area. The artwork for the reception area was completed by artist Jonathan Minshull and was specially commissioned by Sound Moves.
The more businesslike end of the premises include an ...
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Jens Nielsen has joined Associated British Ports (ABP) as commercial director. Prior to joining ABP, he worked for Blue Water Shipping for 12 years before joining DFDS where he was variously UK & Ireland managing director of DFDS Transport; managing director of DFDS Seaways; and, latterly, vice president of freight ...
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CLECAT will hold its 2014 Freight Forwarders Forum in Brussels on 6 November. The event will explore issues including new regulations, building an internal market for transport, Big Data and dematerialisation of documents - or what prevents it from happening?
More information and the draft programme will be available soon - ...
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Chapman Freeborn Airchartering's Intradco annimal transport subsidiary is to extend its operations worldwide. Following Chapman Freeborn's completion of the acquisition of UK-based Intradco in February this year and integration of the company into its business portfolio over the last three months, the new subsidiary gains access to Chapman Freeborn’s global ...
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Essex forwarder Woodland Group's Woodland Media publishing division has opened a new office in Hong Kong. The new Hong Kong operation, which officially opened earlier this month, has been established with the support of Woodland's long-term agency partner IFB International Freightbridge.
Former Activair (Hong Kong) managing director of Activair (Hong Kong), ...
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Sue Terpilowski, managing director of maritime, ports and logistics public relations specialist, Image Line Communications, has been awarded an OBE in the Queen’s Birthday Honours List for services to small businesses. She is also London policy chair for the Federation of Small Businesses (FSB) and is a board member on ...
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The UK Government is challenging an EU regulation that it says requires it spend money developing a rail freight corridor to Scotland. The Department for Transport has asked the EU Court of Justice (ECJ) to annul an amendment in the Connecting Europe Facility (CEF), which obliges London to invest in ...
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Logistics company Aramex has acquired of Mail Call Couriers, a leading courier service in metro express deliveries in Australia. Founded in 1982, Mail Call offers e-commerce solutions in the Australian logistics market, including its ‘WantItNow’ delivery solution with count-down technology and three-hour and evening e-commerce delivery offerings. Australia is now ...
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Freight management network, The WACO System has added WorldNet Logistics (Mocambique) and WorldNet Logistics (Namibia) as new members. WorldNet Logistics has eight staff operating from its office in Mozambique’s capital city Maputo. WorldNet Logistics (Namibia) (Pty) Ltd operates a warehouse and a fleet of over 150 outsourced vehicles with offices ...
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Online intermodal brokers, FreightArranger has added new routes between Southampton and Manchester, and Southampton and Leeds. The trains run on all working days, with afternoon loading cut-offs allowing next-day deliveries and can accept high cube (9' 6" high) ISO containers and swapbodies up to 2.5 metres wide. There are opportunities ...
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