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October 2017

Investor buys German cold-chain network

Hamburg-based Garbe Industrial Real Estate has acquired a portfolio of 16 cold chain logistics halls across Germany for a private investor from the Doblinger Group. The premises, previously long-term rental properties, are worth over €240 million. [+]

Ekol opens Yalova port

Turkish logistics company Ekol has opened a ro ro terminal at Yalova, south-east of Istanbul, with the first sailing operated by Alternative Transport's Qezban to Trieste, Italy on 4 October. The 80,000sq m facility has space for 500 trailers two ro ro ramps, X-ray facilities, customs office, driver areas and a ... [+]

Another mammoth load for Manchester

Esprit Warehousing and Docks Trafford Park terminal in Manchester has handled another large shipments via the Manchester Ship Canal. Following the import on 19-20 September of four large silos from Europe, last week a 130 tonne transformer arrive from South Korea en route to Stalybridge. The transformer traveled 15,400 miles by sea, ... [+]

Militzer & Münch opens Algerian affiliate

Militzer & Münch has set up an affiliate in the Algerian capital, Algiers. It joins Militzer & Münch organizations in Morocco and Tunisia. The forwarder offers a range of services in the Maghreb region of North Africa including weekly dangerous goods groupage services, packaging and quality control, labelling, order picking and ... [+]

Top marks for Geodis

EcoVadis has awarded GEODIS a score of 68/100 - among the best in its overall rankings - for its Corporate Social Responsibility program. EcoVadis assesses companies on environmental, social, ethical and supply chain issues. The assessment is based on 21 criteria the environment, social issues, ethics/fair business practices and supply ... [+]

Espace becomes employee-owned company

Espace Europe says it has become the first UK freight forwarding firm to become an employee-owned company. The Lichfield-based company transferred ownership of its business to its employees on 29 September, with all current employees qualifying as beneficiaries of an employee ownership trust and its annual distributable profits. Espace managing director, Tony ... [+]

Virgin and Delta in the pharma zone

  Virgin Atlantic Cargo and Delta Cargo have opened a new Pharma Zone at their joint facility at London Heathrow. Located at the Cargo Point facility, it is a fully segregated area dedicated to handling and storing pharmaceutical shipments within a strictly regulated temperature environment with dedicated active container storage. Delta Cargo ... [+]

Portal partners vow to improve shipping safety

TT Club and the UK P&I Club have joined forces with Exis Technologies to further develop the Hazcheck Restrictions Portal.  The portal allows participating lines to check for dangerous goods compliance with partner lines and accept provisional bookings.  The portal started as an initiative with several major container lines that ... [+]

Brussels warns: Mind the VAT gap

‘Lost’ value added tax by EU member states is “shocking”, said the European Commission’s head of taxation and customs, Pierre Moscovici, following publication of a new report on the ‘VAT Gap’. In the report, published on 28 September, he said that EU countries lost an estimated total of €152 billion in ... [+]

Funding vehicle for North-west health charity

A truck is helping raise funds for North West Cancer Research. Bootle container haulier JWT Commercial encouraged 16 businesses to pledge a minimum donation of £250 to the charity in exchange for their logo on the tractor unit. The DAF XF model truck was unveiled at the Truckfest show in Knutsford and ... [+]

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