November 2019
AP Møller-Mærsk chief operating officer Søren Toft has left the Danish shipping company to become chief executive of its partner in the 2M consortium Mediterranean Shipping Company (MSC). His former responsibilities at AP Møller will be taken on by chief executive Søren Skou on an interim basis.
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DP World has signed a memorandum of understanding with Namibia's Nara Namib Free Economic Industrial Zone to develop an industry and logistics area in Walvis Bay. It will offer development-ready land for industrial and logistics operations, pre-built warehouses and office accommodation. Development of the first 50 hectares phase of the ...
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Current PM Boris Johnson may be promising to ‘Get Brexit Done’ during the election campaign but the idea that the Withdrawal Agreement would be the end of the process is deeply misleading, says UK Warehousing Association (UKWA) chief executive, Peter Ward.
He says: “Getting Brexit done implies an end point, a ...
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Hong Kong Air Cargo Terminals Limited (Hactl) has broken its all-time record for the number of freighters handled in a 24-hour period. Hong Kong’s largest independent cargo handler dealt with 104 freighter aircraft – beating its previous record of 102, set on 5 November 2017. The peak of activity took ...
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Charter broker Air Partner has opened an office in Dubai to serve the Middle East region. It offers a full range of services, including freight and is headed by general manager Jobby George.
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Leeds City Council has granted planning permission for a new inland port at Stourton, Leeds. The Canal & River Trust has drawn up plans and says it is now looking to secure £3.37 million of funding from West Yorkshire Combined Authority. As well as bulk traffic such as building material, ...
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Deutsche Post DHL Group’s DHL Global Forwarding air and ocean freight arm is working with Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) to deploy a blockchain solution to support logistics payment processing as a more robust alternative to back-end processes which are often error-prone and tedious. The Minimum Viable Product (MVP) solution links ...
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The decision by the UK government to offer subsidies to ferry companies operating cross-Channel routes to and from a number of French ports – but not the port of Calais – has angered the chief executive of the latter, Jean-Marc Puissesseau.
”We are very dissatisfied with the decision by the British ...
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Lufthansa Cargo has brought forward its its fleet modernisation plan, saying it will buy two more new Boeing 777F freighters, but at the same time withdraw all its older MD-11 freighters by the end of 2020. The carrier says that overall, it will have the same freighter at the end ...
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It is crucial that businesses can continue to access non-UK workers, particularly when UK workers are not available to take up vacancies, said the Freight Transport Association in its response to the government’s call for evidence regarding the salary threshold for a future immigration policy. With unemployment at its lowest ...
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