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It’s freezing in the South of France

Norbert Dentressangle has opened a new frozen and chilled storage facility in Saint Georges d’Espéranche for its food industry customers in South Eastern France. The multi-temperature site near Lyon employs 70 people and offers frozen and chilled storage, bringing the total amount of capacity in the Lyon region to 72,000 m3 of frozen and 6,000 m3 of chilled storage - but the company already plans to extend the new site ... [+]

Norbert adds ocean option

Norbert Dentressangle's freight forwarding division his offering an ocean version of its Red Sky Connect primary airfreight network launched earlier this year. ‘Red Ocean Connect’ is described as “a managed, end-to-end global sea freight service” and connects all the company's global offices, including recent acquisitions John Keells Group in India ... [+]

Cross-dock in Seville

Norbert Dentressangle has opened a new, shared-user distribution platform in Seville, Spain. The 4,000 sq m facility replaces another facility in the same location and has 20 loading and unloading bays and the latest RF technology and warehouse management systems. It will operate as a cross-dock facility for the transport ... [+]
Norbert Dentressangle at finishing line for the Tour De France

French triumph in Tour de France

The French cycling team may be licking their wounds after the historic triumphy of Bradley Wiggins and the British team in this year's Tour de France but Norbert Dentressangle at least has something to celebrate. The French-based logistics company has renewed its partnership with the Amaury Sport organisation to provide ... [+]

Water flow for Norbert Dentressangle

Norbert Dentressangle has won a new £3 million two-year import contract with Nestlé Waters UK for bottled water from Europe that meets Nestle’s environmental goals to reduce CO2 emissions. The forwarder has developed an integrated intermodal and road transport service, offering higher payloads to significantly cuts the number of road deliveries ... [+]

Back to Zambia for driver trainer

Norbert Dentressangle driver trainer Jason Thornton has visited Zambia for a second time to help deliver new and refresher training to Zambian and Tanzanian instructors as part of transport charity, Transaid’s Professional Driver Training Project. A shift leader at Norbert Dentressangle’s site in Rugby and registered Association of Industrial Truck ... [+]

Norbert Dentressangle moves into India and Sri Lanka

Norbert Dentressangle is to take over the freight forwarding operations of Sri Lankan and Indian-based conglomerate, John Keells Group, following a share purchase agreement signed on 4 July. The transaction is due to be finalised at the end of August. The freight forwarding operations employ 120 people and had reported revenues ... [+]

Seine solution for Paris retailer

Norbert Dentressangle, is to use the River Seine to transport goods to stores in Paris on behalf of retailer, Franprix.The logistics specialist will use the river to deliver to 80 stores in the capital, saving almost half a million road miles each year. From September 2012, Norbert Dentressangle will manage ... [+]
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Forwarding breaks even at Norbert Dentressangle

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. http://www.norbert-dentressangle.co.uk/ [+]

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