July 2018
Logistics and global trade management specialist Uniserve has appointed Roger Clements as its new group chief financial officer. It follows the recent appointment of Kim Overman as chief operating officer. Clements has held senior ‘positions at a number of major logistics and aviation businesses, including Stobart Group, Montgomery Transport Group, Woodside Haulage and Trenchard Aviation Group.
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Volga-Dnepr Group has launched a global ‘aircraft on ground’ (AOG) service to manage the delivery of urgent spare parts to stranded planes. Supported by a team of aviation professionals, it will offer the fastest and most cost-efficient solution using either air charter or scheduled cargo services, utilising the Group’s fleet ...
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Olympic golden girl Dame Kelly Holmes is to host next year’s BIFA Freight Service Awards.
Entries to the awards, which are now in their 30th year, are now open and director general, Robert Keen says that any company looking to go for gold in these awards can have no finer example ...
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Volga-Dnepr Group and CargoLogicAir have signed a memorandum of understanding with Liege Airport to develop a regional hub and enhance freighter capacity at the Belgian airport. Within the next three to five years they will set up an operation of to 30 cargo flights per week, including arrangements for special ...
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Stena Line is to exercise an option for a seventh and eighth new E-Flexer ships at the Avic Weihai Shipyard in China with a planned delivery in 2022. Additionally, Stena has taken an option on the construction of a further four similar vessels.
Stena Line chief executive Niclas Mårtensson, said that ...
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Peel Ports’ new Liverpool2, container terminal will handle its largest regular caller to date when the 2M (Maersk and MSC) alliance temporarily switch their TA2 transatlantic service from Felixstowe on 22 July.
At the same time, Maersk Line’s Colombia Express will also start an export service from Liverpool to Newark, New ...
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The EU and Japan signed an Economic Partnership Agreement on 17 July described as the largest trade agreement ever negotiated by the EU and widely seen asthrowing down the gauntlet to US president Donald Trump and his protectionist policies. It will remove the vast majority of the €1 billion of ...
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Panalpina to acquire a majority stake in South African perishables air freight specialist Skyservices, for an undisclosed sum. Skyservices is headquartered at Johannesburg ‘s OR Tambo International Airport where it runs a 2,000sq m warehouse and is also present at Cape Town airport where it has 1,700sq m of space. ...
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Former Tilbury managing director Perry Glading has been appointed a non-executive director of Dover Harbour Board, following the expiry of Erik Østergaard’s term. He also chairs the Thurrock Business Board, which includes non-executive board positions with Opportunity South East and the South East Local Enterprise Partnership.
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IT firm Sitaonair says it has a solution to the problem of monitoring temperature-sensitive goods in flight. In a demonstration with AirBridgeCargo Airlines, CargoLogicAir and OnAsset Intelligence at the Farnborough Air Show in July, it showed how data provided through sensors during the flight to its ground data management and ...
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