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The SmartWay Europe industry-led initiative to improve the environmental performance of road freight transport in Europe has been renamed Green Freight Europe. The group, which includes shippers, carriers, retailers and associations, helps companies reduce carbon emissions by calculating and monitoring them through a central database, with shippers encouraged to compare the environmental performances of different carriers. A certification system will also be established.
Björn Hannappel from Deutsche Post DHL and chair ...
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Suffolk logistics provider, Dooley Rumble celebrated its 25th anniversary on 23 March. Neil Dooley and Simon Rumble founded Dooley Rumble in 1987, with the main area of business being freight forwarding. Now the company has customers around the globe and find ourselves moving goods as diverse as Formula One cars ...
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A UK transport lawyer has warned that hauliers can lose their vehicles through ignorance of smuggling and is calling for more definitive ways for companies to defend themselves as Customs appear to be taking stricter measures against errant operators. Anton Balkitis, a partner at Rothera Dowson solicitors, told a International ...
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Danish-owned logistics and forwarding specialist DSV Air & Sea Limited has launched a new daily air freight service from the Far East to the UK. DSV Everyday, offers daily flights from Hong Kong and South China to the UK.
Three service levels - Priority, Classic and Economy – offer, respectively, a ...
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Manchester-based frozen food sales, storage and distribution specialist Yearsley Group has launched a new global logistics and freight forwarding division. The group will take control of the logistics and import operations for products imported from overseas by UK food manufacturing customers, making full use of Yearsley Group’s logistics network.
Yearsley will ...
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Members of ‘C’ Shift has won the Port of Felixstowe's John Bubb Safety Trophy, the second year in a row it has gone to an operational shift. The shift, which includes berth operators, crane drivers, internal movement vehicle drivers, and terminal managers, reduced the number of reportable accidents on the ...
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Hellmann Worldwide Logistics UK has signed a new partnership with Rangel Express and Logistics in Portugal to operate round trip road freight services to Oporto and Lisbon. Existing twice-weekly from the UK to Portugal will increase from twice to three direct departures a week.
Hellmann UK’s commercial director, Matthew Marriott, said: “Finding ...
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UPS has agreed to buy rival carrier TNT Express for about €5.16 billion, slightly more than the initial €4.9 billion offer rejected by the Dutch-based operator earlier this month. TNT's executive and supervisory boards said they would unanimously intend to support and recommend the offer.
In a joint statement, the two ...
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Transport Commissioner Siim Kallas described as "ridiculous" suggestions that adjacent member states that both allow longer trucks - 'European Modular System combinations' or gigaliners - on their respective territories are not allowed to operate them between their two countries. He said he had received an opinion from the European Commission's ...
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UPS says that it is still interested in buying rival express carrier, TNT. In a statement issued on 16 March, the US-based company said it “ remains in constructive discussions with TNT Express N.V. regarding a potential transaction to acquire the entire issued share capital of TNT Express.”
It adds that ...
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