August 2015
Lothbury Investment Management is to fund a new cargo site near Heathrow. Developer Chancerygate is developing a single storey warehouse and headquarters at Poyle Central and the completed 43,500 sq ft building will have excellent access to the cargo terminal, it says. It will be available to let from summer 2016. It is described as a self-contained detached facility with fitted offices, as well as generous yards and separately accessed ...
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The EU and Vietnam have reached agreement in principle on their free trade agreement on 4 August. In a statement, the European Commission said that all issues of substance had been agreed on. Negotiating teams will now settle remaining technical issues and finalise the legal text for approval by the ...
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Forwarding and agency company John Good Shipping has moved into the new logistics centre at DP World London Gateway. It is taking 465m² (5,000 sq ft) of office accommodation, consolidating its existing Brentwood and Tilbury offices to create a larger, more streamlined central hub the new port.
DP World chairman, Sultan ...
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There has been a mixed reaction by Government plans to turn the former Manston Airport near Ramsgate into a holding area for trucks waiting to cross the Channel in Kent.
The Port of Dover said that while it welcomes Government action to alleviate the disruption, it warned that a heavy goods ...
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FL Technics is to expand its London-based aircraft spare parts stock and reduce the time of delivery by half under a new deal with specialist logistics company B&H Worldwide. FL Technics, whose main warehouse is in Lithuania, manages a wide range of aircraft spare part stock in the UK, Malaysia, ...
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The European Shippers’ Council has urged the European Commission to take action to stop Turkey from levying additional customs duties on goods entering from the European Union, which it says violates the customs union signed in 1995. ESC says that Turkey has imposed duties on footwear, textile, chemicals, pharmaceutical products, ...
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Jochen Thewes is to be Schenker AG's new chairman of the board of management, from 1 September . An internationally recognized supply chain and logistics expert, he has since 2011 been the forwarder and logistics giant's chief executive officer in Singapore. Prior to that, he was senior vice president global ...
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Container service operator Pentalver has opened the first phase of its new five acre site at DP World London Gateway. The new yard, next to the port’s main gate, can be expanded to nine acres over the coming years.
Pentalver, a subsidary of the AP Moller Group, has been providing empty ...
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A Competition Commission of South Africa investigation into the car carrier trade in 1999 to September 2012, and which concluded that Wallenius Wilhwelmsen Lines had engaged in prohibited practices, has now been referred to the Competition Tribunal of South Africa for trial. If confirmed, WWL would pay a fine of ...
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ICHCA International will hold a one-day seminar entitled: ‘Container Weight Verification: Regulation to Implementation’ in London on 11 September to discuss how the new IMO rules can be implemented and enforced with minimum disruption to container logistics chains. Hosted at the London offices of international law firm Holman Fenwick Willan ...
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