October 2018
Turkish Cargo launched freighter flights to London Stansted on 4 October. They are operated by Airbus 330 type wide-body aircraft on Wednesday, Friday, Sunday on five different routes, and are expected to feed the Middle East Africa and Asia via Turkey.
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Peel Ports says its Liverpool2 deep-water container terminal is ready to help clear the growing backlog of imported goods into the country caused by IT problems in Felixstowe.
With retailers now importing stocks for Christmas rush and Black Friday on 23 November , Felixstowe, the country’s largest container port has suffered ...
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Danish-owned forwarding and distribution specialist Leman has moved its UK headquarters to a refurbished 108,500sq ft warehouse in Normanton, near Leeds managed by third party warehousing firm Onward Holdings, which specializes in competitively priced industrial warehousing in the north of England.
Leman said the new site offered 10,000sqft of high-quality office ...
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ABP general manager Stuart Cresswell has been appointed as a director of the Scottish Chambers of Commerce (SCC). Responsible for the company’s operations in Scotland, which include the Ports of Ayr and Troon, he is also a co-founder of the Clyde’s timberLINK shipping service and a driver behind numerous other ...
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Managing director of Leeds-based Tudor International Freight, David Johnson, has repeated his warning to businesses trading with the EU to brace themselves for a period of disruption. With major remaining differences of opinion on issues such as the Irish border between Prime Minister Theresa May and the EU and within ...
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Following the introduction earlier in the year of real-time tracking for unit load devices (ULDs), Delta Cargo is now extended the service to cargo businesses based off airport. The carrier says it will eliminate all paperwork at the dock door when units are loaned out with a digital Uniform Control ...
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US-owned forwarder and logistics company CH Robinson has opened a new office in Cologne, bringing its total number of locations in Europe to 49 and to six in Germany. Winfried Netzer, a 30-year industry veteran, has been appointed to lead operations in the new office.
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Air service provider dnata has been awarded Good Distribution Practice (GDP) certification for pharmaceutical handling at its Zurich facility. To meet the requirements, dnata completely refurbished one of its warehouses at the airport and made significant enhancements to its quality systems, operations documentation and facilities management practices.
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Virgin Atlantic Cargo has appointed Suzy Wardle to the new role of head of digital and distribution. She will be responsible for delivering the airline’s digitisation programme which will allow customers to interact in new and innovative ways, She has held a number of digital roles at Virgin Atlantic over ...
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Work on the £15 million multi-deck storage facility in the Eastern Dock, the port’s eighth, will take nine months and will create 3,000 additional vehicle spaces.
Representatives from BMW Group, one of the main automotive customers for this facility at the port, and Morgan Sindall Construction & Infrastructure, the contractor appointed ...
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