February 2016
Air France KLM Martinair Cargo says it has become the first major airline group to be awarded the IATA CEIV Pharma certificate for hub operations in Amsterdam and Paris and the Air France and KLM airline processes. According to product market group director for pharmaceutical logistics, Renate de Walle, the IATA CEIV Pharma programme surpasses the Good Distribution Practice guidelines by adding explicit air transport requirements.
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A business partnership which brings around a quarter of Britain’s bananas into the country is celebrating its tenth anniversary.
The Port of Dover, Seatrade Reefer Chartering and terminal operator George Hammond celebrated a decade of running twice weekly shipping services through a port more widely recognised as the busiest ro ro ...
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It may not look very romantic, but Lufthansa Cargo is currently flying entire freighters filled with roses in time for Valentine's Day - over 1,500 tonnes this year or the equivalent of 16 MD-11 freighter-loads. The German carrier always adds special charter flights to its regular flight schedule in February ...
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Rico Group – which recently took over airfreight delivery firm Circle Express - has appointed Amarjit Pall as director of e-commerce logistics EMEA. He has spent the last three years setting up a similar operation in the UK and will be looking to expand final mile solutions to customers in ...
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Two fifths of manufacturing executives quizzed in a recent GT Nexus report said that they had suffered a supply chain disruption over the past 12 months. However, few have a dedicated manager to help them cope, according to the 250 senior staff polled in the logistics technology firm's State of ...
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Cheshire forwarder Neon Freight moved a pallet-load of woolly hats to Nepal for free after local fire cadets were overwhelmed by the public's generosity.
The cadets sent out an appeal for woolly hats for the children of earthquake hit country and intended to take them with them in their personal baggage ...
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The Port of Felixstowe says that it will offer a container weighing service before new international rules come into force on 1 July but has not said how it will be carried out. From that date, an amendment to the SOLAS (Safety of Life at Sea) Convention will require every ...
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American Airlines Cargo has redesigned the tracking functions on its website including live status updates through colour-coded progress bars, detailed flight, AWB and Customs information, simple access and navigation to shipping history and added sorting and viewing capabilities. Logged-in users can also sort their shipments by origin and destination.
Director of ...
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IAG Cargo reports that flower shipments from Kenya to the US have increased 50% over last year’s season, with popular destinations including Vancouver and New York. E-commerce allows buyers to source flowers directly from farmers, which in turn allows them to order exactly what they require ahead of Valentine’s Day.
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The former MyFerryLink vessel Rodin is back in service with her new owners, DFDS, on the Dover-Calais route as the Côte des Dunes.
She and her sister ship, the Berlioz were at the centre of a bitter dispute involving workers at the former Eurotunnel-owned line. Former MyFerryLink workers occupied the vessels ...
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