June 2016
Aviation services group Air Partner is launching a 'Rio Express' freight service before and after the Olympic Games this summer. In the run-up to the Games, Air Partner will have exclusive freight availability on a weekly Sunday MD11 freighter flight from Frankfurt to Rio de Janeiro, starting on 10 July and ending on 24 July. The return flights will operate on 25, 26 and 27 August.
Air Partner says that the ...
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Network Airline Management has signed a long term contract with TAAG Angola Airlines to provide a nose-door Boeing 747-400F to operate once a week from Liege, Belgium to Luanda. The aircraft will carry up to 120,000kg of oil related and general cargo and will also provide export capacity from Angola ...
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Cronus Logistics managing director Nicola Walker met Chancellor George Osborne during a visit to Warrenpoint Port in County Down on 6 June. He was shown round the docks and observed ro/ro and containerised operations along with the discharge of bulk grain ships. He was also shown timber that is imported ...
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Lufthansa Cargo will open a new station at Paderborn-Lippstadt Airport, about 100km east of Dortmund, on 15 June. Consignments will be moved in regularly scheduled trucks under a flight number to and from Frankfurt.
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Confidence in the UK’s logistics industry is at a four year low, according to the Barclays 8th annual Logistics Confidence Index published on 7 June. The index has fallen significantly to 51.8 in the first half of 2016, down from 61.9 in the second half of 2015, the largest drop ...
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DP World has won a 50 year concession to develop a $1 billion greenfield multi-purpose port project at Posorja, Ecuador, 65km from the country’s main commercial city of Guayaquil. The $500 million phase 1 will include dredging a new access channel, a 20km access road and a 400 metre berth ...
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Delft-based Holland Container Innovations (HCI) has won a €2.5 million grant from the European Horizon 2020 programme for the 4Fold foldable containers it is developing.
The 4Fold container can be reduced to a quarter of its normal size when empty and is designed to reduce the €25 billion a year spent ...
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The British International Freight Association is urging freight forwarders not to be complacent about new Verified Gross Mass (VGM) rules, despite a recent IMO circular urging ‘practical and pragmatic' enforcement by authorities in the first three months after 1 July.
BIFA director general Robert Keen, director general said the grace period ...
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The 57-km, SFr12.2 billion Gotthard Base Tunnel in Switzerland was officially opened on 1 June. Currently, the longest rail tunnel in the world, it is expected to greatly ease the passage of freight trains from northern Europe to Italy, allowing longer and heavier freight trains to be operated by fewer ...
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Kuehne + Nagel has appointed Yngve Ruud as a new board member with global responsibility for the airfreight logistics from 1 October. He succeeds in this function Tim Scharwath who will leave the company next year.
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