May 2016
IAG Cargo will separate its current Abu Dhabi and Muscat service into two flights and will split its Bahrain and Doha service from this winter. The four separate services will boost capacity to the Middle East by 83%, it says.
The next generation B787-9 will serve the Abu Dhabi offering a larger hold and a state-of-the-art air conditioning system while a 777-200 will serve Bahrain, Doha and Muscat routes, a payload ...
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Lufthansa Cargo, Europe’s largest scheduled airfreight carrier, has signed a cooperation agreement with Hong Kong-based the cargo division of Cathay Pacific Airways, the biggest carrier in Asia.
Customer benefits include more direct connections, greater flexibility and time savings combined with service enhancements, said Cathay cargo director Simon Large, and Lufthansa Cargo ...
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The UK is facing a chronic shortage of warehousing due to years of under-development combined with growing demand, especially from e-commerce operators. This will likely lead to considerably higher rents, director of Logistics Research at Savills, Kevin Mofid, told a seminar at the Multimodal event in Birmingham in May.
“There’s very ...
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Mega vessels might help shipping lines but they are not necessarily good for shippers, FTA director of global and European Policy, Chris Welsh (FTA) told a session at the Multimodal conference on 11 May. “The mega vessels reduce unit costs for shipping lines but overall supply chain costs are increasing,” ...
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The Freight Transport Association said it welcomed the decision by the Secretary of State to approve imporvements to the A14 between Cambridge and Huntingdon.The route is an import link between the Midlands and the Port of Felixstowe.
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FS Mackenzie (FSM) – the UK member of the FPS Group network of independent forwarders and consolidators – has relocated its Liverpool office to a new base in Waterloo, close to the city’s container terminals at Seaforth. FSM Liverpool was previously based in St Helens. FSM Liverpool provides ocean, road ...
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XPO Logistics has finalised a long-term agreement with lifestyle brand Ted Baker to manage its new pan-European distribution centre. The company is consolidating its existing distribution sites into a single centre near Derby.
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The ‘Training Trucks for Transaid’ initiative was officially launched at last night’s FTA Multimodal Awards in Birmingham – a daring cross-continent challenge to source and drive a bulk liquid tanker and a coach from Europe to Africa.
The initiative aims to deliver the vehicles to Transaid’s professional driver training programme in ...
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Immingham-based Modal Training will open what it says will be the UK's only freight forwarding academy and the first formal qualification for the industry in over 20 years.
The company, jointly funded by the Grimsby Institute and the Humber Local Enterprise Partnership, is set to open a training centre on Humberside ...
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French rail SNCF's VIIA logistics arm announced a new service from Italy to the UK during Multimodal. Following the announcement in March this year of a route from the Spanish-French border to Dover via Calais, a further new service will transport unaccompanied trailers by rail between Orbassano (near Torino) and ...
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