July 2015
Chairman of Parliament’s All-Party Freight Transport Group Rob Flello said that the secure waiting area in the port of Calais and plans to deploy 90 officers to an anti people-trafficking taskforce should only be the start of efforts to tackle the problem.
The measures were announced by Home Secretary Theresa May on 14 July, when it was revelated that authorities at the French port had thwarted more than 8,000 attempts by ...
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Food and agriculture supply chain analyst at Rabobank, Paul Bosch, and Steve Wiggins from the UK-based Overseas Development Institute (ODI) will be among the speakers at the seventh Cool Logistics Global Conference in Bruges, 29 September – 1 October.
Mr Bosch will provide a unique perspective on the global food economy, ...
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UPS supply chain financial arm, is to buy the Insured Parcel Services (IPS) business of G4S International Logistics (G4Si). It follows UPS Capital's recent acquisition of jewellry logistics company Parcel Pro.
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Ceva Logistics has opened a global distribution centre for industrial spare parts in Born, the Netherlands. The new centre features 28,000 bin locations and 3,000 sq m floor storage in the warehouse and a yard of 4,000 racking locations and 4,500 sq m floor storage. The location offers full service, ...
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GAC UK has appointed Martin Kenney as chartering and project manager. A ship broker and agent for 27 years working with heavy lift carriers such as BigLift, Rolldock, Jumbo and CPC, he has managed turnkey projects worldwide and, for the last seven years, has managed his own company, Project Navigation. ...
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The European Commission has cleared IAG's acquisition of Irish airline Aer Lingus. Conditons imposed include IAG's release of five daily slot pairs at London-Gatwick airport to allow competition on routes from London to Dublin and Belfast. IAG is the holding company of British Airways, Iberia and Vueling.
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The European Shippers’ Council has come out in favour of the merger between TNT and FedEx, despite opposing UPS's mooted takeover of TNT a few years ago. It says that while its members omplained about the possibility of losing one of the three European express carriers and resultant lack of ...
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MSC's Australia Express is now providing direct calls between London Gateway and Sydney, offering the fastest direct service between Australia and the UK and North West Continent. The service also calls at Melbourne, Adelaide, Fremantle, Singapore and Colombo.
MSC has also added the Spanish North African enclave of Ceuta as a ...
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Nolan Gray has joined the Port of Tyne as business development director. A chartered management accountant with 18 years of corporate experience, most recently Nolan was Finance Director at DeepOcean UK, where he managed the finance and supply chain interests of the business in both the UK and global markets.
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DB Schenker Rail UK has secured a contract with the direct sourcing arm of Asda Walmart, International Procurement and Logistics (IPL) to transport produce containers from London Gateway to Wakefield Europort. The UK’s rail freight operator will be providing two services a week for IPL. The first service delivered ...
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