June 2018
Freight forwarder Kuehne + Nagel has agreed a 15-year lease on almost 200,000sq ft of space on 17.6 acres of land at the Segro Logistics Park East Midlands Gateway. Estimated date of completion is March 2019.
KN will relocate its Lenton Lane and Riverside operations to the new site and will also merge the overland activities currently hosted at its Midpoint Park, Minworth location into the new development, which will include ...
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Singapore Airlines has renewed its cargo handling contracts with Worldwide Flight Services (WFS) in London and Paris. At Heathrow, WFS handles cargo on Singapore Airlines’ double daily A380-800 services and its twice-daily 777-300 operations to Singapore. This is in addition to twice-weekly Boeing 747-400 freighter services, which depart Heathrow every ...
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Steve Tumber, Operations Manager at Fulham-based forwarder FSC Oceans has completed the 26-mile Thames Path Mighty Hike to raise funds for MacMillan Cancer Support
He joined hundreds of people from all walks of life in completing the course from Windsor to Henley, along the banks of the Thames.
He added: “I didn’t ...
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PD Ports’ director portcentric logistics Jim French has been awarded an MBE in the Queen’s Birthday Honours List for services to young people in the transport industry. Now semi-retired, for the last four years he has dedicated his time at PD Ports to the launch and continued successful operation of the ...
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Stena Line has confirmed that the first of its new ro pax ferries currently under construction in China will enter service on its Holyhead-Dublin route in early 2020.
It will have capacity for 3,100 freight lane meters and offer four4 daily sailings with an estimated crossing time of approximately 3½ hours.
It ...
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Europa has added a supplier invoice scanning function to its Leonardo in-house IT system. It avoids have to distributed and physically approve paper invoices. IT director Richard Litchfield (pictured) said that with an average of about 10,000 invoices, switching to LeoScanning saved over 500-man hours per month. It also allows ...
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HMRC’s 1980s-vintage Chief computer system has served the trade well in the quarter century since it was introduced in 1994, but now is the time to move on, BIFA policy and compliance advisor Pawel Jarza told a seminar on its replacement, CDS (Customs Declaration Service). The Union Customs Code (UCC), ...
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Emirates is to reinstate two weekly 777-300ER passenger and bellyhold cargo flights between Luanda and Dubai, bringing the service to five flights per week from 1 July. It will rise to a daily service starting from the winter schedule. Flights will offer up to 23 tonnes of cargo.
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Emirates SkyCargo has signed a memorandum of understanding with the logistics arm of the Alibaba Group, Cainiao to develop Dubai as one of its planned six global hubs. Cainiao and the airline will work closely to manage e-commerce shipments in the Middle East and other neighbouring regions through Dubai. Cainiao’s ...
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Peel Ports commercial director Stephen Carr is calling on the freight industry to look at the Irish Sea model of unaccompanied freight and to use ports across the country to mitigate the worst Dover delays post-Brexit.
He said: “We all know about the acute delays and problems that already exist at ...
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