May 2015
Volga-Dnepr has delivered 45 tons of humanitarian cargo on behalf of the Norwegian Red Cross to Nepal. The carrier moved a rapid deployment emergency hospital from Oslo to Kathmandu over two flights in the first week of May using on of its IL-76 freighter aircraft.
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Europa Worldwide Group is all set to move into its new £30 million head office and hub facility in Dartford. The new 290,000 sq ft facility at Prologis Park is due to be completed later this month.
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At 2½ years, this is probably as cute as polar bears get – though you probably wouldn't want to get too close to Kali, who already weighs 850 lbs (60 stone). Orphaned in Alaska as a cub, he recently moved from New York to the Saint Louis Zoo, courtesy of ...
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Kevin Buchanan, managing director at palletised freight network Pall-Ex boss called on the new government to be firm on European drivers. He said: “Under the current system, drivers from across the Continent use our roads for free, do not pay tax, and do not always buy fuel. Taking a tougher, ...
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IAG Cargo is boosting its German cargo capacity on its EuroConnector short-haul service for consignments up to 300 kilos by using capacity on Vueling’s narrow-body aircraft. The new space will be available from Düsseldorf, Hannover, Stuttgart, Berlin Tegel, Frankfurt, Munich and Hamburg into Barcelona. The new cargo flights will be ...
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Plans to fast-track the EU-US Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) suffered a setback on 12 May when the US Senate threw out President Obama's Trade Promotion Authority bill. While Republicans voted in favour, only one of the President's own Democrat senators voted in favour. The bill would have sped ...
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Sue Terpilowski was elected president of the Women’s International Shipping & Trading Association (WISTA-UK) at its annual general meeting in late April. She is the owner and managing director of Image Line Communications – a specialist maritime, logistics and supply chain communications agency which she set up 27 years ...
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Boris Johnson's comments on future aviation policy are “unhelpful” says the Baltic Air Charter Association. The London Mayor and recently elected MP for Twickenham said that he would will lie down and stop the bulldozers building a third runway at Heathrow during his acceptance speech.
BACA is calling on ...
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Multipurpose shipping operators AAL and Peter Döhle are to join forces to offer joint tramp and project services. While the two carriers remain independent of each other, with separate ownership, operations and identities they will deploy and jointly represent a fleet of 26 ships ranging from 12,000, to 31,000 ...
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DHL Global Forwarding has appointed Teoman Beyazit as its new general manager for Turkey. He was formerly chief financial officer and and deputy managing director for DHL Global Forwarding Turkey and replaces Kerem Inanc, former General Manager, who was appointed CEO DHL Global Forwarding Eastern Europe.
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