July 2017
Rotterdam-based Broekman Logistics has appointed Ron Kuijpers as director of business development for warehousing and distribution. He brings many years of experience in a wide range of commercial and operational positions in the logistics sector, including companies such as UPS SCS, Geodis and Flextronics Logistics. Recently, he expanded and professionalised the global sales organisation as Director of Business Development at Jabil.
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CEVA Logistics has renewed its contract to manage the warehousing and distribution of UK Power Networks' (UKPN) cabling, plant and associated materials for five more years. It first won the UKPN business in 2009 which was further extended to 2017 and now, following a full tender process, the company has ...
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DB Schenker, MAN and Hochschule Fresenius are to receive EUR2 million of funding from the German Federal Ministry to develop networked truck convoys. The project will run from June 2017 to January 2019. Initially the partners will test truck convoys on the A9 autobahn for several months to analyse their ...
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DHL says that it expects to despatch its first consignments into space in two years’ time. If all goes as planned, the Peregrine Lunar Lander - the first private and commercial lunar mission - will make its way to the Moon, carrying not only scientific equipment but small honeycomb-shaped DHL ...
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DFDS is setting up a road service office in Vilnius to handle part and full loads to and from the UK. It will also offer an express service between Lithuania and Germany, Italy and other countries as well as full loads and special cargoes. Loads picked up in Lithuania on ...
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Eli Glickman took office as the new president and chief executive officer of ZIM on 1 July. He succeeds Rafi Danieli, who has been president and CEO since 2009.
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Delta Cargo has gained IATA’s Center of Excellence for Independent Validators (CEIV) Pharma logistics Certification - the first U.S. Global carrier to receive this accolade. The certification to its largest cargo operation in has also created the first CEIV Pharma trans-Atlantic network connecting Atlanta with other existing CEIV Pharma certified ...
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Freight forwarder Geodis’ Industrial Projects arm is managing out-of-gauge shipments from all over Europe for a major oil and gas project at the Lotos Refinery in Gdansk, Poland. Shipments of oversize columns for Kinetics Technology, part of the Maire Tecnimont Group include a 310-ton column which was transported by barge ...
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Keswick Enterprises’ Tibbett Logistics has opened its 15th warehouse in Romania with the signing of a new long-term lease with P3 for a 5 000sq m unit at the P3 Bucharest Park to the west of the city. Tibbett Logistics has leased warehousing in this logistics park since 2007, and ...
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China’s Cosco Shipping confirmed market talk on 9 July when it announced that it was buying a nine-tenths share of Hong Kong-based Orient Overseas International, parent company of OOCL, with Shanghai International Port Group (SIPG) taking the remaining 10%. The deal is subject to regulatory approval, but has been accepted ...
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