August 2016
German-owned forwarder Dachser has appointed existing board member Thomas Krüger as managing director of its EMEA business unit and recruited current Schenker board member Jochen Müller to take over from the retiring Thomas Reuter as chief operations officer of air and sea logistics on 1 January 2018, after a transition period from 1 October this year.
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Logistics software firm AEB and the Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport are holding a conference on Brexit global trade compliance and export controls in dynamic markets, on Tuesday, 11 October in Leamington Spa (9am-4.15pm, Mallory Court Hotel.
Confirmed speakers include: Bernadette Peers, Strategic Shipping Company; Pablo Lecour, Deloitte; Clive Corris, ...
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American Airlines Cargo shipped a record 575,000lbs (260,000kg) of freight and mail from Heathrow in a single day on Sunday 31 July, surpassing its previous daily record set in October 2015, when it shipped 565,857lb (256,668kg).
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Manchester-based forwarder Harbour International Freight is one of four new members to join the Pall-Ex pallet freight network. It will cover parts of the BL and M postcode areas and help expand delivery services in the North West of England and Ireland, in addition to its UK domestic and European ...
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Tilbury’s London Container Terminal and the Port of London Authority have welcomed the first call of a ‘neo-panamax’ vessel in the UK following the opening of the enlarged Panama Canal.
The MSC-operated Sofia Celeste - capacity 8,800teu - is the first in a new class of vessels deployed on a reconfigured ...
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Port operator DP World has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with US-based Hyperloop One to explore the role of innovation in the future of world trade. The first project is for a feasibility study into a Hyperloop system to move containers Dubai’s Jebel Ali Port to a new inland container depot in ...
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The Freightbook online forwarders’ network (www.freightbook.net) has been relaunched with a new customer ratings facility. It also recently introduced v3.0 of its smartphone service allowing forwarders and suppliers to the freight industry find each other quickly on mobile devices.
The online directory costs £50 for two years’ registration and includes contact ...
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Ocean shipping electronic marketplace INTTRA saw a 17% increase in container volume for the first half of 2016 and a record number of container orders on its core transaction platform hit a record – levels at which the industry has reached a tipping point where digital shipping management is now ...
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Don’t be surprised to see office blocks floating up the Thames over the next few days - almost 100 accommodation units are being delivered to Bermondsey for the Tideway tunnel project. In anticipation of tunnelling work starting in 2018, 96 buildings are being brought to the site by river from ...
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Over 20 years since the demise of British Rail’s Red Star parcels service, which used trains to delivery sameday consignments around the British Isles, urgent pharma shipments are once again taking to the rails, says Bio FastTrack, a partnership between InterCity RailFreight (ICRF) and WEGO Carbon Neutral Couriers.
Companies around the ...
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