February 2015
Agility has become ExCeL London's exclusive supplier of logistics services, following a tender process. Under the new three-year contract, Agility Fairs & Events will partner with ExCeL to provide event organizers, exhibitors and contractors with specialist event transportation and logistics, pre- and post-show storage, on-site receiving and delivery, forklift/mechanical handling equipment, and customer logistics advice and support.
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A team of Volga-Dnepr Airlines’ experts moved an urgent shipment of oil production equipment from Scotland to Turkey recently. The 35-ton load was flown one of its IL-76TD- aircraft from in Prestwick to Istanbul’s Sabiha Gökçen airport. The process took just three days from the initial customer enquiry to delivery.
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Lufthansa Cargo has taken delivery of its fifth and final Boeing 777F freighter aircraft. D-ALFE landed in Frankfurt for the first time on 12 February on its delivery flight from Everett near Seattle.
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Virgin Atlantic Cargo's Steve Hughes is to move from regional vice president sales for Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) to the newly-created post of vice president sales Transatlantic. He will also develop Virgin Atlantic’s transatlantic joint venture with Delta Air Lines. In Hong Kong, Neil Vernon (below) becomes vice ...
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Motis, the Irish-based freight services specialist that took over the Freight Services Agency and truckstop in the Port of Dover in 2012, is investing £1million to develop the site. Cargo handling facilities are being upgraded to include ambient, frozen and chilled storage and transhipment. Safety and security is being further ...
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CEVA Logistics is moving to new premises in Vancouver, Canada. The new location is near the International Airport as well as the country's largest port. The 53,000sq ft (4,941sq m) facility also offers many more dock doors, trailer parking space, additional container storage fspace and 2,500 racking locations.
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IAG Cargo is joining other carriers, including Emirates, Qatar Airways and SAS in rolling up fuel surcharges into an all-in rate, from the summer. It will apply to all markets except Hong Kong, South Korea and Japan, where local regulations on surcharges apply. These countries are Hong Kong, South Korea ...
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DHL is investing €114 million in its hub at Brussels Airport, originally opened in 1985. The scheme will triple capacity from 12,000 to 39,500 shipments per hour with modern sorting technology and is expected to create 200 new jobs by 2020. The original Brussels facility was set up in 1985 ...
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Panalpina is to operate a wet-leased 747-8F freighter on its transatlantic route, which includes calls in Mexico and the UK. It comes as part of a new five-year agreement under which the forwarder with Atlas Air, under which Panalpina will switch one of its wet-leased aircraft to more than 200 ...
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Freight forwarder and logistics company Norbert Dentressangle has extended its Hong Kong to Paris service to include three airfreight consolidations per week into the UK. It has secured block space agreements with a number of airlines. Transit time is two days to Heathrow and Manchester. The company also offers a daily ...
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