May 2019
Mariner Shipping has been appointed as agent for the United Feeder Service agent in Malta.
UFS is an independent company within the DP World Group, serving Malta, Genoa, Naples, Piraeus, Damietta, Port Said East/West and Constanta in the Black Sea and expects to carry about 1m teu during 2019. It provides 30 rotations, calling at 65 ports in the Iberia, Mediterranean, Black Sea, Middle East and North Africa.
Mariner Shipping is primarily ...
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The Port of Tilbury has issued a CGI video showing the facilities at its new £200 million Tilbury2, building of which is underway. Tilbury2 received development consent from the Secretary of State for Transport in February to build Tilbury2 – a new multimillion-pound port terminal adjacent to the current 930 ...
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The British International Freight Association has elected John Stubbings as its national chair, succeeding Mark Bromley who becomes immediate past chair for a two-year term. Rachel Morley, general manager for operations at BIFA member company, Spatial Global, has been elected vice-chair. Morley was appointed a director of BIFA in 2017 ...
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The first of the new Boeing 777 Freighters ordered by DHL started revenue service on 25 May when it took off from Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International Airport for Bahrain on its commercial maiden flight. With a payload capability of 112 tons and a range of 9,200 km, the B777 F will ...
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DHL Global Forwarding, Deutsche Post DHL Group’s air and ocean freight specialist, has launched myDHLi Quote & Book, a new online service for comparing quotations and making instant bookings. The service guides customers through the quotation process and enables them to directly compare available options, including DHL Ocean Connect LCL ...
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CP Training Services is offering what it says is the only BSc (Hons) Supply Chain Management Professional Degree for the workplace that can be paid for by the Apprenticeship Levy. It provides employees with the chance to earn a salary during the entire learning experience. www.cptrainingservices.org.uk
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Garbe Industrial Real Estate is expanding its site at Witten, near Dortmund in North Rhine-Westphalia. A logistics centre with a hall area of 22,000sq m is currently being built on an area of close to 75,000sq m in the Brauckstrasse industrial estate is scheduled for completion in October. The tenant ...
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Maintaining its accomplished operations from Ataturk and Istanbul airports as "Dual Hub", the global brand of Turkish Cargo continued its strong growth momentum during the first quarter of the year despite the shrinkage of the global air cargo sector.
During the first three months of the 2019 which featured a shrinkage ...
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Completing the gradual transition process to Istanbul Airport, one of the largest airports of the world, the global air cargo brand Turkish Cargo maintains its dual-terminal operations with full capacity on 7/24 basis without any sales restriction.
Maintaining its services at Ataturk and Istanbul Airports as "Dual Hub" without any problem ...
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APM Terminals has invested in two new mobile harbour cranes at its West Africa Container Terminal (WACT) in Onne Port, eastern Nigeria. The two Liebherr LHM 550 cranes are due for deployment in July this year. WACT has already invested around US$2.5 million in ten purpose-built terminal trucks, three reach ...
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