October 2015
Freightliner Group has appointed Neil McNicholas as business development director. He was a founding member of Direct Rail Services (DRS) managing the company’s operations and engineering functions before taking on the role of managing director for 17 years.
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UPS is expanding its Worldwide Express service to more than 41,000 new postal codes around the world, including 1,371 post codes in the UK and nearly 15,000 in Europe. It gives earlier money back guaranteed-delivery options for customers who previously had only end-of-day money back guarantee delivery options.
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Construction firm McLaughlin & Harvey has completed a bulk warehouse at the Port of Liverpool. Situated quayside on Alexandra Dock, McLaughlin & Harvey the 282,000sq ft building is 375m long and the length of three and a half football pitches. It contains over 5,500 piles, 11,000m3 of concrete and 1.35km ...
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Schenker has appointed Alison Jackman as its new head of automotive for the UK, with immediate effect. She was previously a supply chain consultant and before that was global purchase and supply manager at Unipart from 2010 to 2012.
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CMA CGM has upgraded its service from Morocco to Europe for the citrus fruit and vegetable export season. OPDR, its subsidiary since 1 July will operate the CISS service from 7 November from Agadir to Tilbury and other European ports and the AGAX service from 15 October between Agadir, Casablanca ...
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Neill & Brown Global Logistics boss Peter Brown is celebrating half a century’s service with the company. Now chief executive of the Hull-based forwarder, he started out in 1965 as the office boy, palletising imported Scandinavian timber at the former RAF Catfoss airfield in East Yorkshire for onward distribution.
Under ...
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CEVA Logistics has been awarded four ten-year contracts worth a total of $400m to provide warehousing, store deliveries, e-commerce fulfillment, international distribution and 4PL services to fashion retailers Coast, Karen Millen, Oasis and Warehouse.
Under the new contracts, which will run until 2025, CEVA will manage a new 25,000 sq ...
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Educational sessions at the Multimodal show in Birmingham on 10-12 May 2016 will focus on supply chain innovation and the impact of new legislation. Issues on the agenda include warehouses of the future, e-business challenges, and the impact of mega shipping vessels. Multimodal has teamed up with the Freight Transport ...
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SEKO Logistics’ European MedTec control tower has been awarded the ISO 13485 certification for medical devices.It provides specialised solutions including dedicated program management for demonstration equipment, finished goods and returns, as well as contract logistics and fulfillment services.
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AgustaWestland has tasked XPO Logistics with moving eight helicopters from to the UK for the Brazilian navy. The helicopter firm will replace engines and systems on the Lynx Mk21A machines at its facility in Yeovil, Somerset. It will then return the refurbished helicopters by air and sea freight.
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