October 2016
Deutsche Post DHL has sent its Panama-based Americas disaster response team (DRT) to Port-au-Prince in Haiti following the hurricane on 3 October. Volunteers provided logistics support at Port Au Prince’s Toussaint L’ouverture International Airport, coordinating incoming international aid and forwaarding it to affected areas. The DRT is part of Deutsche Post DHL Group's GoHelp disaster management programThe group also operates the Get Airports Read for Disaster (GARD) that helps airports ...
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If one day the name Charlie Cooksey is on every footballing pundit’s lips, remember that he started his career courtesy of Röhlig UK.
The forwarder is sponsoring the promising youngster, as he plays for the Northampton Town Football Club Academy during the 2016/17 season.
Having started with the Academy aged eight, Charlie ...
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Bradford-based Advanced Supply Chain has agreed a strategic partnership with logistics agent, China Arts Intertrans. It has also opened an office in Guangdong on the South China Sea coast, to complement its existing office in Shanghai.
Advanced Supply Chain’s partnership with Sinotrans, China’s second largest logistics company, announced in 2011, will continue.
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Europa Road has launched an additional daily line to Como in Italy in conjunction with its local partner, Bianchi Group. The route is the company’s first ever long haul service to have two daily structured departures in each direction. The city is now the fourth most visited in the region, ...
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Delta Airlines is to launch a daily 757 passenger service between Boston and Dublin from 25 May. Departure from Ireland will be at 10.15 arriving 12.35 local time with return at 20.14, arriving Dublin 08.30.
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Egypt is to join the TIR transit system. The Federation of the Egyptian Chambers of Commerce (FEDCOC) will be the issuing and guaranteeing association.
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Forest products firm UPM is to centralise its shipping of paper and plywood to the UK from the Finnish ports of Rauma and Kotka on the port of Tilbury from the beginning of next year. The move would improve supply chain efficiency and bring greater service reliability, said the company.
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Ro ro operator DFDS is to add a fourth vessel to its Rotterdam/Immingham route. The MV Friedrich Russ has space for 110 trailers and 12 drivers.
Route director Netherlands, Mikael Mortensen,said the extra ship would allow DFDS to operate to offer two daily departures from Mondays to Saturdays and a fixed ...
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Current head of east west trades in Maersk Line, Klaus Rud Sejling, has been appointed chief executive of Damnco, its forwarding sister company within AP Moller Maersk. Current Damco chief executive Hanne Sørensen, has decided to leave the Maersk Group.
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ABP has appointed current Hull and Goole manager Mark Frith as port manager for Grimsby and Immingham. He has managed the ports of Hull and Goole since 2014 following a career in global logistics and operations with DHL, after which he relocated from Canada to join ABP. ABP has already ...
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