February 2019
Logistics provider Transmec Group is marking ten years of working for garden storage and furniture firm Kettler GB. The latter’s managing director Paul Bevington says: “Our garden furniture range in particular has not only grown in popularity, it’s also increased in size and this has put pressure on the warehousing and logistics side that Transmec has been able to absorb.”
In the last 12 months Transmec has increased its capacity with ...
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Handling company WFS is to start building a new pharma facility at Copenhagen Airport in April. The new building will cover an area of 1,500 sq mts and will provide end-to-end handling in a temperature-controlled environment for 2-8°C pharma. It expects the construction process to be completed in time for ...
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Rhenus Air & Ocean has gained CEIV Pharma certification for its Amsterdam Airport Schiphol branch. It sets quality standards for the life sciences and healthcare sector through uniform processes and a compliant supply chain for pharmaceutical products.
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CEVA Logistics has appointed Claus Svane Schmidt as head of its less than container load (LCL) product. He was previously managing director of the company's North Asia cluster. CEVA has identified LCL as a key product for development in the coming months.
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Haulage firm JWT Commercial has expanded its footprint at the Port of Liverpool, investing in over five acres of land. It will allowing it to handle larger volumes of goods for distribution to stores across the UK. It has also invested £500,000 in an automated system in Liverpool that will ...
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Implementation of HMRC’s CDS - the replacement for the Chief computer system – is unlikely in the foreseeable future, suggests Gordon Tutt, chairman of the Association of Freight Software Suppliers.
While AFSS is still actively engaged with the CDS team for development and testing and there has been a significant improvement ...
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Thames Enterprise Park, unveiled last October has announced a further £8.5m of investment to transform the former Coryton Oil Refinery site into a logistics hub.
The investment will fund land preparation work on 44 hectares of the 168 hectare site by specialist remediation contractors DSM Demolition. It will be focused ...
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TT Club has appointed Andrew Peers as senior underwriter for its UK, Benelux and Nordic team. He joins the Club from RSA, where he spent 17 years and led a team of 12 marine liability and marine property insurance underwriters.
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Eurotunnel says that it will sue the UK government over the “secretive” procurement process for the extra ferry capacity. A four-day trial is due to begin on 1 March and follows a High Court hearing at the end of last year when Eurotunnel claimed that the contracts to Seaborne, Britanny ...
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CMA CGM has made a public tender offer of CHF (Swiss france) 30 per share, in logistics and forwarding company Ceva of saying that the Ceva board “is fully aligned with this friendly offer”.
The shipping line’s chairman and chief executive Rodolphe Saadé, said the move would allow CMA CGM to ...
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