June 2017
The World Customs Organisation (WCO) will organise a Global Transit Conference on transforming landlocked developing countries (LLDCs) into ‘and-linked’ countries on 10-11 July. In 2014, the average cost to export one container from an LLDC was US$3,444 and $4,344 to import whereas transit countries had average costs of only $1,301 to export and $ 1,559 to import a container, with cumbersome transit procedures contributing much of the extra charge. WCO ...
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Hapag-Lloyd and United Arab Shipping Company (UASC) formally completed their merger on 24 MayThe deal creates a company with 230 vessels and a shared fleet capacity of approximately 1.6 million teu, the fifth-largest liner shipping company in the world.
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Middle East-based forwarder Agility has reached a global settlement in the case involving US government food-supply contracts in 2003-10, agreeing to pay $95 million in cash to settle the civil part of the case. In the criminal proceedings, it agreed to plead to a misdemeanor in connection with a single ...
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Rhenus’s Offshore Logistics arm has started its first major project at its new Great Yarmouth offshore base. Its Blue Betria platform supply vessel will be performing regular supply duties to the Galloper Wind Farm during the commissioning phase of the offshore sub-station. The first in a series of cargo runs ...
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The Rhenus Group says it plans to launch services at Surabaya, Indonesia’s second-largest city, in early August following the opening of an office in the port city of Semarang in February. The Rhenus national company in Indonesia has now been certified by IATA since the end of May, it adds.
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Hull-based family-owned logistics and shipping company John Good Group has appointed Stewart Oades deputy chairman as part of its long-term succession plan.
Over the next 12 months, he will work closely with the chairman, John Rutherford, and managing director, Alan Platt before taking over as group chairman in May 2018 John ...
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DHL is sponsoring round-the-world sailor Susie Goodall. She will be the youngest female participant participate in the Golden Globe Race, in which will see 30 sailors will make a 30,000 mile round trip from Plymouth, departing on 30 June and returning via the five Great Capes “at some point in ...
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Felixstowe-based on-demand European transport specialist Jordon Freight has a new corporate identity. Director Jon Swallow says it reflects the company’s increased number of services and its future direction.
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The FIATA international forwarders’ federation FIATA has appointed Hans Kersten as deputy director and he will take over as director general after the retirement of Marco Sorgetti in September. Kersten was previously International Union of Railways (UIC) freight director.
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General sales and service agency ECS Group has nominated current chief operating officer Adrien Thominet as chief executive, taking over the role from Bertrand Schmoll, who remains group chairman. Thominet will be in charge of developing a new business model that will “reinvent the way GSSAs currently work.
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