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Hull-based container and general haulier A R Lunn Transport has gone into administration. The company operated a fleet of 102 articulated artics from a 7.5-acre site near the port, the BBC reports. Administrator Price Waterhouse Coopers confirmed that 115 jobs would be lost.
Source: BBC
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Forwarder Kuehne & Nagel is all set to open its new super-hub at Bad Hertzfeld in the centre of Germany on 1 June, a senior vice-president told FBJ on 5 March. Jim Hedderwick, in charge of road logistics for north-west Europe said that around 50 direct lines would operate to ...
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Peel Ports said on 5 March that it had started the procurement phase for the construction of its new deep-water container terminal at the Port of Liverpool. The landmark terminal, which will handled two ships of up to 13,500teu, will be branded Liverpool 2 – echoing the Liverpool One retail ...
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The Port of Felixstowe celebrated the first call of The New World Alliance's revamped (AEE) service on 3 March. It offers shippers westbound transit times of eight days between Felixstowe and New York.
TNWA (APL, Hyundai Merchant Marine (HMM) and Mitsui OSK Lines (MOL)), has deployed high-reefer-capacity ships on the weekly ...
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Kraft Foods senior logistics director, Keith Newton, has been appointed secretary general of The Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport International. He takes up the position from 1 May, succeeding Interim secretary general, Colm Holmes.
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Five freight forwarders who have performed significant work for the US Government and its contractors have been added to the Excluded Party List System (EPLS), debarring them from similar work in future. They are BAX Global, Kühne + Nagel, Panalpina (in Switzerland and New Jersey) and Schenker. The move follows ...
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Mitsui OSK Lines is to publish the results of several key performance indicators (KPI) for its global containership service - vessel on-time performance percentage, reductionof CO2, NOx & Sox and the number of operational stoppages of three days or more per year. It has established a set of goals for ...
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Green Freight Europe, formerly known as SmartWay Europe, takes place in Brussels on the evening of 27 March (17.30 to 21.00). Billed as the leading independent voluntary programme for the improvement of European road freight's environmental performance, it is backed by more than 25 companies, including multinational shippers, carriers, logistics ...
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The World Container Index (WCI), a joint venture between Drewry and The Cleartrade Exchange, showed a 114% increase in container freight rates in the westbound Asia-Europe corridor in the week beginning 27 February. Carriers in the key Asia-Europe headhaul trade had previously announced general rate increases in the region of ...
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Norbert Dentressangle said its Freight Forwarding activities reached breakeven this year, two years after it was launched. New acquisitions TDG and APC Beijing International both made a positive contribution to profitability, it added. Overall, net profit was up by 11% at €63.3 million, the French owned logistics group added.
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