September 2015
Logistics service provider Logwin has opened a sales office in Krakow, following the setting up of operations there in July handling worldwide air and sea freight shipments for companies in the region. It says that the south Poland city is also taking on increasing importance for the logistics sector with investment in infrastructure and special funding packages creating incentives for many foreign companies to establish operations there. Logwin's customers in ...
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US-owned forwarder BDP International's UK arm has become an Authorised Economic Operator (AEO). The new status will give its operations, which include sea and air freight services and logistics support for marine packed chemicals, bulk liquid, commodity and project-related shipments, easier access to certain simplifications in customs procedures such as ...
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The International Air Cargo Association (TIACA) has appointed Warren Jones as director and Kenneth Gibson as business development manager. Warren Jones, whose most recent role was president of cargo network services (CNS) at IATA, will focus primarily on TIACA’s sales initiatives and will also manage other aspects of the association’s ...
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GB Railfreight has added its seventh daily rail service from Felixstowe, to Birch Coppice, Birmingham. It is also the 31st daily rail service to operate out of the port. It runs to Birmingham Intermodal Freight Terminal (BIFT), owned by container transport company Maritime Transport [2]. It is also the first ...
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Delta Air Lines has appointed Alan Lavender as its new area sales manager for its UK Cargo division. He was previously key account manager at Cathay Pacific.
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Swissport International took over Oman Air’s cargo handling at London Heathrow on 3 September. It will also take over handling at , Munich, Frankfurt and Paris Charles de Gaulle by 1 November.
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Horse freight specialist New Zealand Bloodstock is to start a new monthly service from the UK and Europe to New Zealand after gaining approval from the veterinary department of the Australian government for its new quarantine station in Sussex. It already offers a similar service from the UK to New ...
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US-owned forwarder and logistics company CH Robinson Worldwide has appointed Jeroen Eijsink as president of its CH Robinson Europe arm. He was previously chief executive of DHL Freight in Germany since March 2013, and has also worked in Belgium, Netherlands and UK since joining that company in 2003 after seven ...
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DFDS has signed an agreement with the SCOP-SeaFrance workers' organisation and Eurotunnel to take over the Rodin and Berlioz that were at the centre of the recent strikes and disruption in Calais. Under the deal, reached with the assistance of the French transport minister on 31 August, DFDS is committing ...
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Agility has opened a Pharmaceutical Competence Center in Sao Paulo, Brazil. It will be managed by experts from the Middle East-owned logistics firm trained in the benchmark Good Distribution Practice (GDP) standards developed by the World Health Organization and European Union.
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