June 2017
Chairman of the All Party Parliamentary Group on Freight Transport, Labour MP Rob Flello, has lost his Stoke-on-Trent South seat to the Conservatives, by 663 votes. Before the election, he had warned that he faced an uphill struggle to get re-elected which could in turn threaten the future of the group.
Managing director of Europa Worldwide Group, Andrew Baxter – a firm supporter of both Brexit and the Tories meanwhile described ...
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Intermodal traffic had a record year on the UK’s railways growing 6% to 6.81 billion tonne-km, according to statistics released on 8 June by the Office of Rail and Road. It reflected new services and routes as well as continued pressure for longer trains. Construction traffic grew by 7% in ...
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Don’t assumed that the proposed new European Commission Mobility Package will not affect you because of Brexit, warns the Freight Transport Association as it launches a new briefing paper.
The document makes clear why, even though the proposals are unlikely to come into law until after March 2019, many of ...
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An Antonov Airlines AN-124-100 carried an urgent 24-tonne load in under an hour from Chile to Argentina after bad weather closed the roads. The two mining filtration units were moved on behalf of Hunt & Palmer Cargo Charters from Santiago to Mendoza in Argentina in only 39 minutes.
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Ekol Logistics has opened new branches at Lerida and Valencia in Spain, having added the country to its network in 2014. It is planning to open two more officers in the next few months. Ekol employs 100 people in Spain and, having executed more than 100,000 groupage shipments in 2016, ...
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Kuehne + Nagel says it has become the first forwarder to provide information on carbon emissions on seafreight invoices. It aims to help customers to improve the analysis, reporting and management of CO2 emissions caused by their transport chain. KN uses data from its online Global Seafreight Carbon Calculator (GSCC), ...
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Factors such as e-commerce, globalization and mergers and acquisitions have created a new landscape for supply chain real estate, according to a report published on 7 June by DHL.
The New Landscape of Supply Chain Real Estate by Lisa Harrington, resident of the lharrington group, in collaboration with DHL states that ...
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Network International Cargo has been awarded Good Distribution Practice (GDP) Passport status by Life Sciences International, a division of the Irish Exporters Association (IEA). The GDP Passport, a training initiative by the IEA, ensures patient safety by compliance throughout all stages of the supply chain which safeguards the quality of ...
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AirBridgeCargo Airlines has become the second airline to join the Pharma Gateway Amsterdam quality pharma initiative. The carrier operates 22 flights per week from Amsterdam to significant pharma destinations in Europe, Asia, and the United States, including Moscow, Chicago, Shanghai, and Singapore.
AirBridgeCargo Airlines is already IATA Center of Excellence for ...
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Militzer & Münch is now offering a weekly service from its groupage hub at Eichenzell near Frankfurt to Central Asia and the Caucasus. Goods are loaded onto group-owned trucks, and customs cleared for transit to destinations including 13 Militzer & Münch locations in Georgia, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan ...
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