June 2018
Kuehne + Nagel has leased warehouse and office space at Budapest Airport ahead of the construction of the dedicated Cargo City, a new freight centre, which will start this summer. It is part of the €160 million BUD: 2020 Development Programme to develop cargo business.
Budapest currently handles all-cargo flights operated by carriers including Cargolux, Turkish, and Qatar Airways, as well as belly cargo operations. Belly cargo flights are boosted by ...
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UPS has expanded its LCL ocean service with an additional 130 direct sailings and including ports in Asia, US, Latin America, Africa, Europe, the Caribbean and the Middle East. The new options include an export service from Dublin to Antwerp, an import service from Dalian in China to Southampton in ...
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DFDS has formally completed its acquisition of Turkish shipping company UN Ro-Ro, says chief executive and president, Niels Smedegaard. UN Ro-Ro operates five freight ferry routes connecting Turkey with Trieste in Italy and Toulon in France, with 12 freight ferries and its own port terminals in Istanbul and Trieste.
DFDS is ...
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The Transported Asset Protection Association (TAPA) has published all three levels of its Parking Security Requirements (PSR) certification programme for industry review. It has also signed a memorandum of understanding with SNAP Account, the cashless payment system for the haulage industry.
TAPA has also reiterated its strongly-held belief that there are ...
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The Sagrada Familia church in Barcelona is nearing completion after 92 years – with a little help from a little Lancashire grit and Europa Road’s Manchester branch.
The Gothic and Art Nouveau building was designed by renowned architect Antoni Gaudi who, in fairness did spend 40 years building it before he ...
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MMD Shipping Services in Portsmouth is to launch a regeneration project on its 22-acre city-centre site.
Improvements include removing warehouses and creating space for up to 1,200 additional container spaces and an additional 250 reefer points and doubling the terminal's current capacity, in response to changes in how goods and produce ...
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MSC has become the latest shipping line to register its global container fleet on BIC’s BoxTech Global Container Database. It makes available technical details of more than 10 million containers, 40% of the global fleet, to database users including shippers, forwarders, terminals and software solution providers. BIC secretary general Douglas ...
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Chapman Freeborn staff from around the world gathered to celebrate the charter company’s 45th birthday in the ancient city of Mdina, Malta. Founded in the UK in 1973, the Chapman Freeborn group originally to market Alaska International Air’s Hercules freighters, the company now has offices in North America, Europe, Africa, ...
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The Government has approved its so-called ‘backstop’ plan for trade with the EU after Brexit including an end date of 2021 – the latter apparently at the insistence of Brexit Secretary David Davis,.
Under the plan, the UK would continue to align its tariffs on goods with that of the EU, ...
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Palletways Iberia says it has recruited a record number of new members and seen significant growth in volumes during the 12 years since starting it activities in the region.
The network has three hubs across the Peninsula and 67 members with the recent addition new recruits in Barcelona, Madrid and Portugal. ...
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