April 2018
Bolloré Group owner Vincent Bolloré is being investigated by French Police over his business dealings in Africa, including concessions to run container ports in Guinea and Togo. There are allegations that he helped the presidents of the two countries win elections in exchange for lucrative business contracts. Bolloré Group also has extensive worldwide interests in advertising and media.
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Turkish Cargo sent one of its new 777F aircraft to the Eurasia Airshow in Antalya on 25-29 April. According to the carrier, the show will include acrobatic flight demonstrations, though the 102-tonne capacity giant of the skies kept its wheels firmly on the ground.
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British all-cargo airline, CargoLogicAir has added a third flight per week to Atlanta. Its 2018 summer schedule also includes new twice-weekly direct services from Stansted to Dubai, continuing onto Hong Kong, and two direct Hong Kong-Stansted flights.
The new services will help meet growing demand for pharmaceuticals, aerospace products and automotive ...
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Geodis has opened a new office in Kampala, Uganda initially to cater for the current surge in industrial projects in East Africa. It will also allow the forwarder to tender for parts of a large-scale oil and gas project in the Lake Albert area, as well as managing the transport ...
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With the House of Commons debating a motion on customs and borders on 26 April, The Freight Transport Association is warning that a customs union with the EU would not in itself remove the need for checks at the borders or deliver frictionless trade.
FTA's deputy chief executive James Hookham commented: ...
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Davies Turner is adding an export LCL rail service from the UK to China one year after launching an import LCL and FCL rail service in the other direction. The first leg of the journey is by road, to Hamburg, from the operator’s Dartford hub.
The train from Hamburg passes through ...
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Peel Ports has partnered with DB Cargo UK to provide a new container rail service between the Port of Liverpool and Scotland for the first time. The service, due to begin on 8 May, will operate to Mossend terminal in Glasgow, with onward road delivery to destinations across Scotland.
The new ...
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Peel Ports has appointed Richard Goffin as port director at its London Medway Sheerness facility. For the past two years he was port director at Peel Ports Great Yarmouth, a post he will continue to hold. He replaces previous Port Director Paul Barker, who will now head up the group’s ...
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MEP and rapporteur on the driving and rest time Van de Camp and IRU general delegate Matthias Maedge spent the night in a truck cab, in a secure parking facility to highlight the urgent need to improve infrastructure in the run-up to the vote on the Mobility Package, which includes ...
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Property firm Fenn Wright has acquired a site for a new lorry park and UK office at Orwell Crossing, Nacton, for logistics operator, A2B-online. Adjacent to an existing commercial truck stop, the new lorry park is next to the A14 and close to Felixstowe port.
With its lorries historically parked in ...
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