September 2015
IAG Cargo will launch a new daily route from London Heathrow to San Jose, California on 4 May 2016, operating daily with a British Airways B787-9 aircraft. Capacity will be seven pallets and up to 16 tonnes of lift on each flight in a fully air-conditioned hold.
The new service departs Heathrow at 15:15 arriving in San Jose at 18:05 local time, returning at 20:00 , arriving back in London ...
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TNT has launched a scheduled road connection from Europe to Georgia. A new line haul will connect Georgia’s capital Tbilisi with TNT’s European Road Network (ERN) via Istanbul, to over 40 European countries. TNT says it will offer competitive prices and transit times for parcels and palletised freight as well ...
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Air Charter Service is celebrating 25 years since chairman Chris Leach and his wife Tina founded the company in the basement of their family home in south west London.
Chris Leach, who worked as a cargo aircraft loadmaster as well as for freight forwarder Savino Del Bene, started the business ...
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The Stifel Logistics Confidence Index suffered its fourth consecutive month of decline in September. It reached its lowest point in 26 months, and also recorded its fastest pace of decline While the Index, at 51.5, remains above the neutral 50 mark, times may be gloomier that the numbers alone suggest, ...
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Scottish freight and logistics company Bullet Express has appointed Bob Oliver as international sales manager. He will further expand the company's business at East Kilbride, where Bullet recently opened a four-acre storage facility to provide storage, pick and pack and container de stuffing.
Bob Oliver brings over 30 years international ...
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European forwarders' association CLECAT and the European Shippers’ Council (ESC) have written to the European Commission to warning of a potential lack of capacity for international freight trains on major routes. The associations urge Member States to give priority to international freight trains in order to ensure the proper functioning ...
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DB Schenker Logistics and the GLS Group have signed a non-exclusive cooperation partnership agreement under which the German forwarder will offer a Europe-wide parcel service and GLS will expand its freight services.
GLS, which is active throughout Europe, will deliver parcels for the DB subsidiary while the latter will ...
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The express parcels industry is coming under pressure as never before, according to a new report by transport consultants Ti. Fundamental changes in the market structure, caused by e-retailing, technological disruption and macro-economic upheaval, have created opportunities and challenges for express companies says Global Express and Small Parcels 201’.
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Neill & Brown Global Logistics has opened a £90,000 new transit warehouse at its headquarters in Hessle, near Hull to handle its pallet business. The forwarding and freight firm has an exclusive deal in the Hull postcode area for United Pallet Network. The 3,000 sq ft building has been ...
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Freight forwarder Woodland Group has opened a 155, 000sq ft fulfilment centre at its Chelmsford, Essex headquarters. The multi-million pound investment has been made to satisfy client demand for third party logistics (3PL) services, says fulfilment manager, Luke Fermor. “We took what was a small, clean yet basic transit shed ...
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