February 2019
Tigers has recruited a dedicated international sales team covering Asia-Pacific, South Africa, Europe, and North America. They will be based in Melbourne, Johannesburg, Geneva and Chicago.
Christian Bonnet, regional director for global sales, Tigers, is based in Geneva and specialises in fashion and apparel, with a special interest in e-commerce.
Sean Gothe (pictured, top right), general manager sales, in Johannesburg will focus on sub-Saharan Africa.
Paul Huang (bottom left), regional sales director, ...
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AirBridgeCargo Airlines is collaborating with quality and compliance platform CargoHub to set up an online CargoClaims platform. It will allow ABC customers to manage their claims and pre-claims requests and to submit, update and track the status of their claim in real-time.
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Virgin Atlantic Cargo and Delta Cargo are promising customers more choice, reach, and greater automation when they celebrated the fifth anniversary of their trans-Atlantic joint venture partnership.
The said that they had already made a 20% increase in the number of services since the joint venture began, with 74 daily flights ...
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Dachser makes dash for growth in the North
Dachser UK is to build a new 5,175sq m logistics centre in Rochdale to replace its existing distribution facility - a €16 million (£14.4 million) investment. Located on the Kingsway Business Park adjacent to the M62 junction 21, it will have 49 dock ...
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The so-called Malthouse Compromise may not end the current Brexit impasse, warns Adam Johnson, director of Leeds-based Tudor International Freight.
He says that the proposed blueprint for the period following UK withdrawal from the bloc, which had emerged in recent days, was unlikely to be adopted for various reasons.
The approach, the ...
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PD Ports has welcomed the Department for Transport’s Maritime 2050 strategy.
It says that the report, which maps out a plan to support the UK’s ambition to be a world-leading maritime nation, will enable the industry and government to work more collaboratively on specific challenges.
PD Ports’ chief executive Frans Calje ...
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Turkish Cargo has moved the first freight from the new Istanbul Airport - to Ankara and the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus.
A 321 Airbus from the new airport landed in Ankara on 4 February and the first international transportation was carried out to Lefkoşa (Nicosia) on the same day with ...
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BIFA director-general Robert Keen has complained that the proposed Transitional Simplified Procedures (TSP) recently unveiled by HMRC (see story below) appeared to be aimed solely at traders, and not freight forwarders or customs brokers. He said: "Having reviewed the documentation that has been released, BIFA believes that they are aimed ...
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Yusen Logistics has taken delivery of the first trailers in a new livery as part of the forwarder’s Transform 2025 rebranding strategy, part of a long-term to enter the top 10 UK logistics providers. It follows the earlier acquisition of eCommerce delivery and fulfilment specialist ILG.
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FedEx Express says it has reached another milestone in its integration with TNT, by using the latter‘s European road network to improve transit times for its intra-Europe economy shipments.
Transit times will improve on about 40% of European lanes in countries where the improvement is implemented, it says, adding that ...
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