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June 2015

XPO completes Dentressangle buy

XPO Logistics has completed its purchase of a 67% interest in Norbert Dentressangle, for €217.50 per share, in accordance with the previously announced agreement between the two companies. US-based XPO says the stage is now set for red trucks announcing #WEAREXPO (We are XPO) to take to the roads of Europe and will debut at the Grand Départ of the Tour de France this July, for which Norbert Dentressangle is ... [+]

Hutchison fills empty trucks

Hutchison Ports has launched Boxreload, a web-based tool to help road hauliers tofind backhauls by sharing selected information. The project is supported by the Dutch Ministry of Infrastructure and the Environment and co-financed by the European Union’s Trans-European Transport Network (TEN-T) programme, and has been tested in the Benelux area ... [+]

ABP extends RMS Humber deal

Associated British Ports (ABP) and RMS Group have signed a new 15-year agreement to develop the role of the Humber estuary. RMS Group has facilities on all four of ABP's Humber ports, as well as its own terminal facilities on the River Trent, and offers stevedoring, cargo handling and inland ... [+]

From the Palace to the warehouse

The Princess Royal officially opened the Annual Convention of the International Federation of Warehousing Logistics Associations (IFWLA) at the Town Hall in Liverpool, Merseyside on 2 June. She met representatives from the UK and global logistics community, including IFWLA president, Derrick Potter (pictured, left) and secretary general Roger Williams, as ... [+]

Heavylift link-up in the Pacific

Heavylift carriers Swire Shipping and Rickmers-Linie have signed a connecting carrier partnership. Swire Shipping will be able to connect its breakbulk and project cargoes in India and the Middle East, through Rickmers-Linie’s Middle East and India Connecting more than 12 ports. The monthly multipurpose service offers vessels with a lifting ... [+]

Dartford to be Europa’s central hub

Pan-European groupage operator Europa is to move away from its current twin-hub operation, centralising its international groupage operations on its new Dartford hub. It will end international hub operations in Birmingham on 1 August, but services from Dartford will be expanded, with more services upgraded to daily departures. The reorganisation ... [+]

Updated: Eurotunnel to sell MyFerryLink to DFDS

The Eurotunnel Group is to sell its MyFerryLink to DFDS, including the Rodin and Berlioz vessels. Eurotunnel anticipates that the UK's Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) should not object as it will lead to two maritime operators of equal importance. Moreover, the sale should ensure that the activity remains in ... [+]

New chiefs for Panalpina

Panalpina has promoted Andy Weber to chief operating officer, while Ralf Morawietz will assume the position of chief information officer, taking over from Rod Angwin who is leaving the company for personal reasons. Andy Weber, who started his career with Panalpina, re-joined the company in January 2015 as global head ... [+]

It pays to advertise, says John Shirley

Dover-based East European specialist, John Shirley says that one of its hauliers Autotransport Cucek, from Krapina, Croatia has installed its its new logo on six of its 13.6m straighframe trailers, free-of-charge. The eponymous John Shirley adds that following its advertising campaign in FBJ, there has been a peak in enquiries ... [+]

GAC keeps yacht race afloat

Specialist yacht forwarder GAC Pindar sprang into action when one of the seven boats involved in the Volvo Ocean Race, the Vestas Wind ran aground on a shallow reef in the Indian Ocean in November last year. GAC Pindar, the official logistics supplier for the event, helped the team recover, ... [+]

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