February 2016
Gatwick Airport says it is looking for companies to carry out £75m worth of design and planning work in preparation for a potential second runway at the airport, reports online newsletter bdaily.co.uk. While the Government has postponed a decision on whether Gatwick or Heathrow will build new runways, the airport operator wants to be ready to go ahead if it is selected.
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FedEx Services managing director Frank Newman has been appointed to the International Air Cargo Association (TIACA) Board of Directors. He takes over from Sarah Prosser, managing director – Legal Counsel at FedEx, who is stepping down after six years on the Board.
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The reporting of cargo crimes to the Transported Asset Protection Association’s (TAPA) Incident Information Service (IIS) reached a five-year high in 2015. However, the 37.4% year-on-year increase to 1,515 recorded freight thefts in the EMEA region mainly reflects growing awareness of cargo crime among law enforcement agencies in the EMEA ...
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Global forwarder the Rhenus Group has acquired Swiss project logistics specialist KOG Worldwide, described as a global leader in plant equipment.
It will operate under Rhenus’ Project Logistics division and business activities will be merged, but the KOG brand will continue to be used. Headquartered in Zug, Switzerland, KOG operates 21 ...
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The merged COSCO and China Shipping has been relaunched as China Cosco Shipping Corporation (COSCOCS). With it, the Chinese government hopes to create a global operator with enough muscle to counteract other major global operators such as Maersk Line and stem the two operators' mounting losses.
COSCOCS would own 830 vessels ...
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FedEx and TNT Express say that a third party has filed an appeal against the Brazilian authority (CADE)'s unconditional approval of their merger plans.
At TNT's recent press conference to announce their forth quarter results, chief financial officer Maarten Jan de Vries played down reports that the takeover deal had run ...
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Ocean shipping electronic marketplace INTTRA has promoted Inna Kuznetsova to president and chief operating officer. Since joining INTTRA in 2015, she has served as president of INTTRA Marketplace, which currently handles around one if four ocean container shipping transactions and generated a 12% increase in container orders in 2015, volume ...
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The European Shippers’ Council has written to European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker warning that the reintroduction of intra-EU border controls could potentially hamper trade flows within the Union, putting the potential cost of such a move at up to €3 billion. But the the economic damage could be considerably higher ...
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DHL Global Forwarding has launched a service that allows customers to choose the most carbon efficient full load ocean freight option though its in-house Danmar Lines NVOCC. DHL says that Green Danmar is over 5% more carbon efficient than the industry average. They can also combine this service with DHL's ...
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The US and Cuba have signed a memorandum of understanding to allow up to 110 daily flights between the two countries. This would encompass 20 daily flights between the US and the capital, Havana and up to ten daily frequencies to nine other airports.
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