October 2015
DP World has signed a memorandum of understanding with the Senegalese government to build and develop a logistics free zone near the new Blaise Diagne International and close to the port operator's Dakar terminal. It is expected to be one of the most advanced and well-organized free zones in Africa.
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Six heavyweights made the trip from Johannesburg to Miami this weekend thanks to IAG Cargo - six white rhinos were a part of a breeding programme to ensure the species' continued survival. The flight was coincidentally British Airways’ first A380 flight to the US city.
IAG product manager for live animals, ...
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DP World Southampton handled the first vessel on MSC's new AE2/Swan service on 21 October, with one of the fastest transit times from Asia to the UK. The new route has a 24 day transit time from Yantian (South China) to Southampton and 19 days from Tanjung Pelepas in Malaysia. ...
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A new direct air service by Hainan Airlines between Manchester and Beijing was unveiled by no less a person than Chinese premier Xi Jinping on 23 October. Operated four times a week using an Airbus A330-200 from 10 June, it will make Manchester the only non-London UK airport to ...
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The Stifel Logistics Confidence Index has fallen beneath the neutral 50 point mark for the first time since January 2013, its fifth consecutive month of decline in October. The situation for air freight was especially bad, declining by 3.2 points to 45.7. Weak emerging market growth, China’s financial crisis, and ...
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Lee McFadden of Peel Ports was named Logistics and Transport Student of the Year at the Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport’s annual awards dinner in London on 22 October. Other freight industry winners included Mahesh Kurukulasuriya, managing director, GAC Group of Companies, Sri Lanka - Young Manager of ...
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Turkish Airlines is to launch a weekly Thursday Airbus A310 freighter service from Istanbul Ataturk to London Stansted on 29 October, its first all-cargo service for six years. The carrier's General Sales Agent in the UK is Global Airline Services.
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Kuehne + Nagel has opened an office Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. It will provide the full product and service range in sea- and airfreight as well as tailor-made solutions for industry sectors including pharma, perishables and consumer goods. Over the last two decades the Dominican Republic developed into one of ...
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The Road Haulage Association has repeated its call for the French army to be deployed to secure the Tunnel following the latest upsurge in would-be stowaways trying to break into trucks. With a reported 7,000 illegal migrants in the port area on 23 October and the largest police presence in ...
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The Port of Boulogne-Calais officially opened its new Rail Motorway Terminal on 23 October, saying it had become the first in Europe to have such a facility. The Rail Motorway Terminal is the first stage in a strategy to develop the transport of unaccompanied semi-trailers and will, from January ...
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