November 2016
Jo Godsmark has been appointed chair of the Transaid international development organisation, taking over from Graeme McFaull, who is stepping down after six years. She is a director of Labyrinth Logistics Consulting, where she heads up the supply chain division, and became a trustee of Transaid in 2014 and has served as chair of the finance and management committee.
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US-owned forwarder Logistics Plus has expanded its presence in East Africa with new locations in Nairobi and Mombasa, Kenya; Kampala, Uganda; and Juba, South Sudan. The new sites will serve the entire East Africa corridor, including Burundi, Tanzania, Somalia, and eastern DRC (Democratic Republic of Congo).
The company claims the largest ...
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PGS Global Logistics, part of the UK-wide APC Overnight network turned its hand to international deliveries to help its customer, Salts Healthcare, deliver more than 900 pairs of orthotic shoes to Bhutan.
The APC Overnight depot volunteered to take the shoes to the remote Draktsho Vocational Training Centre for special needs ...
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Peel Ports Sheerness handled its biggest agri-bulk vessel to date in October. The 170m long, 18,000 tonne MV Arki loaded 30,000 tonnes of milling quality wheat from south-east England farms, destined for North Africa on behalf of Glencore Grain.
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UK-based Blok Beam says its new empty container handling system, due to be in Shanghai at the end of November, could ease port congestion. A pair of steel beams connect the six empty containers together to form a single block, which can be lifted as one unit - modern container ...
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Russian multimodal operator Ruscon has opened a new warehouse in Novorossiysk, on the Black Sea. It has direct links to the seaport, railway system and highways with 1500sq m and 840teu of storage. The warehouse offers heat insulation, an open internal design without any columns and a dust free concrete ...
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The three main Japanese-owned container lines – K Line, Mitsui OSK and NYK – are to merge, creating a million teu-plus grouping. A new joint-venture company will integrate the container shipping businesses including terminal operations outside Japan.
The new joint-venture company will be formally established on 1 July 2017 and actual ...
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