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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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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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Fresh produce and horticultural freight specialist Culina Fresh has opened depots at Spalding and Heathrow and has also taken half on the recently introduced rail freight service
The new Heathrow site co-ordinates worldwide door-to-door temperature controlled sea and air transportation and European road transportation and also interfaces with other Culina Group ...
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Palletways has started a fast door-to-door delivery service to and from Germany as part of its international expansion plans.
The Premium+ service delivers palletised freight direct between the two countries in 48 hours via the company’s recently established hub in Homberg – compared with 72 hours via its hub in Nijmegen, ...
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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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PALLETFORCE Plc chief executive Michael Conroy is urging the Prime Minister not to backtrack on plans to introduce a fuel duty stabiliser.
David Cameron recently suggested plans that formed part of the Conservative’s election manifesto to cap petrol prices could be revived.
However he has since told motorists not to ‘raise their ...
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International Heavy Transport Company Van der Vlist have recently completed a local quay movement in Rotterdam, moving several large vessels from the ship to storage. The size of the larger pieces was phenomenal, but by using specialist modular equipment they posed no problem whatsoever.
The items will be moved again once ...
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GAC Logistics has opened an office in Sheffield, its tenth in the UK. It will provide a wide range of services and solutions to serve companies throughout South Yorkshire and the North Midlands. GAC is planning to open a further eight locations in the UK over the next two years.
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