March 2017
XPO Logistics is to relocate Groupe SEB’s UK warehousing operation to its shared user facility at West Hallam, Derby as part of a multi-million pound, long-term contract extension with the domestic appliance firm. It will receive daily loads, mostly from France and China. XPO Logistics already provides transport services to SEB in France, Spain and Portugal and at the broader European level.
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Grangemouth, Scotland’s main container port, has put three new Kalmar straddle carriers into operation. The new ESC340 straddle machines increase the number of machines at the terminal to 16 and are the first phase of a programme to replace the entire fleet. Owners Forth Ports also added a new Hyster ...
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Forwarding and logistics firm Ace Express has won the Deloitte award for the best-managed company for an unprecedented nine years in a row.
The accountancy giant’s Best Managed Companies Symposium and Gala Awards programme recognises indigenous Irish companies across the island of Ireland that operate at the highest levels of business ...
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The freight forwarder will survive online retailers launching their own brokerage services because of “the vastly challenging and circuitous landscape” that the industry operates in, BIFA predicts.
The British International Freight Association (BIFA) has reacted to current speculation that Amazon and Uber may be about to launch their own global freight ...
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Three new 65 metre tall ship-to-shore container cranes manufactured in Ireland by Liebherr and assembled in Cork Harbour are scheduled for delivery to Crowley Puerto Rico Services’ Isla Grande Terminal in San Juan later this month.
The cranes which are currently on board the Overseas Heavy Transport vessel ‘Albatross’, which has ...
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Freight forwarder DSV has opened a new office in Skopje, Macedonia – its first in the country. The office, with a staff of three, will be managed by Mr Dragan Petrushevski, who has many years of logistics experience in Macedonia as well as abroad. A new company, DSV Road DOOEL, ...
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Cruelty Free International is calling on Vietnam Airlines to reinstate its embargo on shipments of monkeys for the research industry. The campaign group says that it has obtained information that the carrier transported at least four shipments of monkeys to Russia during 2016, despite its announcement of a ban in ...
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IAG Cargo has appointed Lewis Girdwood as chief financial officer. He joins the business from EasyJet, where he was head of financial planning and analysis.
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