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Canadian perishables buy for KN

Kuehne + Nagel is to take over the business of Vancouver-based Perishables International Transportation. Established in 1991, PIT is an independent freight forwarder, specialising in handling and transportation of fresh and frozen perishable goods.   [+]

More warehousing in Hong Kong

Kuehne + Nagel has opened its second contract logistics facility in Hong Kong. Located at the Hutchison Logistics Centre, adjacent to Kuehne + Nagel’s warehouse at Asia Terminals Limited and its container freight stations (CFS) in Kwai Chung, it adds a further 75,000sq ft of warehousing space. [+]

KN offers Singapore aerospace solution

Kuehne + Nagel has opened a new aerospace industry regional hub at Singapore Airport Logistics Park's free trade zone. It forms part of the forwarder's global spare parts logistics solutions and enables aerospace customers to supply their clients flexibly with parts and subsystems according to their individual needs and time ... [+]

Keeping ’em in the air

Kuehne + Nagel has set up a new airside service at Heathrow airport's Terminal 3 for critical aerospace parts. It allows engineers to remain on stand with the grounded aircraft while KN delivers parts directly to them, helping to reduce aircraft downtime. Storage of critical spare parts at the airport ... [+]

Kuehne + Nagel opens Shangahi hub

KN has opened a national gateway in to further strengthen its less-than-container-load (LCL) offerings in Asia Pacific. It complements existing direct services in Shanghai and serves as an alternative to the company’s other two gateways in Singapore and Sri Lanka.   [+]

Forwarders fined for price-fixing

The European Commission fined 14 international air freight forwarders a total of €169 million on 28 March for colluding to fix prices and other trading conditions in 2002-07. The fines, which were a European mirror-image to those imposed by the US anti-trust authorities last year, were imposed mainly on large ... [+]

KN offers TC service

Kuehne + Nagel is rolling out a tailored service for the pharmaceutical and health care industry. KN PharmaChain offers door-to-door temperature control, a 24 hour alert system and optional wireless temperature measuring.It offers four service levels, depending on the temperature control requirements and handling demands. Temperature controlled shipments are monitored by ... [+]

Kuehne & Nagel super-hub set to open in June

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 ... [+]

Kuehne + Nagel first with airfreight sensors

Kuehne + Nagel says it is the first forwarder to introduce active wireless sensors for airfreight real-time temperature control. The equipment is being introduced as part of its KN PharmaChain product. Generally, security rules prohibit the active use of mobile sensors during air transport. But together with a number of airline ... [+]

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