March 2018
International end-to-end supply chain business, Advanced Supply Chain Group (ASCG), has launched a graduate scheme to attract new talent.
The company, which operates seven UK sites and others in the Czech Republic, Germany, South America and China, says it has received hundreds of applications from local universities.
Candidates selected from 330 entrants were: Lloyd Moore who joins after completing a degree in Enterprise Development at the University of Huddersfield; Nadia Gonzalez de ...
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Virgin Atlantic Cargo is to launch a second daily service between London and Johannesburg from 28 October. The additional frequency will be operated by a Boeing 787-9 aircraft, which can carry up to 24 tonnes of cargo. In April, the carrier will open a local contact centre in Johannesburg. In ...
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Deutsche Post DHL Group is building a new parcel centre at Ludwigsfelde, just outside Berlin. The 165,000sq m site will have a capacity for about 50,000 shipments per hour.
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Supply chain and logistics management services provider Scala has appointed Dave Howorth as executive director, responsible for enhancing UK and European capabilities and Phil Reuben, executive director, who will oversee global growth, including the development of a new Chinese office. Paul Bebbington, formerly from Kelloggs and Sanofi, and David Short, ...
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UPS is to rebrand its Dover-based truck broking firm Freightex, which it acquired in January 2017, as Coyote Logistics. UPS acquired Chicago, US-based Coyote Logistics in August 2015 as part of its strategy to increase its presence in the European third-party logistics (3PL) market. Freightex also has offices in Poland ...
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The Wallenius Wilhelmsen group company is launching two new brands after Wallenius of Sweden and Wilhelmsen of Norway combined ownership of their jointly owned companies and assets in April last year. Wallenius Wilhelmsen Logistics (WWL) has been restructured into two entities; one ocean transport company named Wallenius Wilhelmsen Ocean (WW ...
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Emirates SkyCargo was formally presented with its Cargo iQ certification at the World Cargo Symposium in Dallas in the US. The carrier became a member of Cargo iQ in 2016 and in less than two years has integrated Cargo iQ shipment cycle management standards as the basis for its live ...
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The European Parliament approved new draft rules to provide clearer price information for parcel delivery services on 13 March, part of the Commission's Digital Single Market strategy. Operators will have to provide prices for their most used services which the Commission will publish on a dedicated website.
The new rules would ...
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The International Air Transport Association (IATA) has launched a Dangerous Goods AutoCheck solution. It checks that the shipper’s Declaration for Dangerous Goods (DGD) complies with the IATA Dangerous Goods regulations and enables electronic consignment data to be received directly. Optical Character Recognition (OCR) technology also transforms paper DGDs into electronic ...
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The European shipowners association (ECSA) and World Shipping Council (WSC) have called for more streamlined ship and cargo reporting system ahead of the European Commission’s expected publication of proposed revisions to the Reporting Formalities Directive (RFD) in early May.
They would like to see a ‘harmonised maximum list’ of data reporting ...
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