November 2014
Treasury secretary Priti Patel (pictured, driving JCB) officially launched construction of the Port of Tilbury's new London Distribution Park on 25 November. At the turf-cutting ceremony, Perry Glading, chief operating officer at Forth Ports-owned Tilbury also revealed that builders' merchant Travis Perkins would be the Park's first tenants, and are expected to open a 108,000sq ft distribution and consolidation centre early next year.
Glading said that the new Travis Perkins DC ...
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Delta Air Lines and Virgin Atlantic Airways will introduce a daily flight from London Heathrow to Philadelphia from 8 April 2015 as part of their new joint venture. It will be operated by a Boeing 757-200.
United Airlines is to add a new summer-season service between Dublin and Chicago next year, ...
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App for ocean shipments
Forwarder and consolidator FPS Group has launched a new app for iPhones and Androids that enables members and customers to track and check the status of ocean shipments passing through its network. It can be downloaded from www.fps-group.net/MobileApp.aspx
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Scottish brewer Islay Ales has taken advantage of e-customs' free service to help low to medium volume exporters tackle UK Customs requirements.
Steve Bavin, Director, Islay Ales said the small brewery was looking to export its beers outside the EU, and needed a system that could meet the Excise Movement Control ...
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Midlands logistics firm Masterfreight has joined the Fortec Distribution Network, adding palletised collections and deliveries to its range of services.
The family-run firm, which has a 110,000 square foot warehouse in Oldbury, specialises in freight forwarding, export packing, UK, Ireland and European road transport, receiving imported goods from all parts of ...
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Charter firm Air Partner and cold chain specialist Envirotainer have worked together to organise charter aircraft shipments to help with the Ebola crisis in West AfricaThe first shipment with Envirotainer’s RAP e2 container transported temperature sensitive medical supplies to Freetown, Sierra Leone.
Air Partner's director for freight, Richard Smith, said: ...
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DHL officially completed the first phase of its European Hub in Leipzig on 20 November and the first sorting operations are underway at the hub’s new warehouse facility. The overall expansion will increase the processing capacity of the hub by 50%, to more than 150,000 shipments per hour. The expansion ...
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DHL Supply Chain (DSC) will commit a further €113 million in China on the back of the €105 million that was committed in 2013, bringing the total committed to EUR 218 million. The funds will support the expansion of its network across China and in particular, six additional logistics facilities ...
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Former Palletline boss Kevin Buchanan is to join the rival Pall-Ex network as group managing director from 24 November. Former group MD Adrian Russell becomes deputy chairman, and Chris Tancock is promoted from sales director to deputy group MD as part of the strategy to develop European networks.
Hilary Devey, who ...
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Virgin Atlantic Cargo is helping to to save the critically-endangered mountain chicken frog. Working closely with JCS Livestock, a division of James Cargo Services, the airline carried 57 frogs - , one of the largest in the world - bred at the Durrell Wildlife Conservation Trust in Jersey and ZSL ...
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