December 2011
Essex-based Alliance Group recently celebrated 20 years of its agency agreement with the Asia Pacific Corporation Australia with chairman and CEO Gary Waller attending the biannual APC agents' conference at Shoal Bay, near Sydney. The next generation of the Waller family also attended, represented by Brad and Spencer Waller.
Alliance ships weekly consolidated seafreight containers to all key ports in Australia, recently adding APC's latest office in Darwin to its network. ...
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Following November’s announcement of a third daily A380 flight from 24 January 2012, Emirates is to convert a fourth daily Heathrow/Dubai flight to A380 operation from 25 March. Despite its size, the cargo carrying capacity of the A380 is lower than the Boeing 777-300ERs its replacing, so Emirates' Heathrow capacity ...
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PD Ports has appointed Rob Brewster as development director logistics and Andrew Lowdon as commercial analyst. Rob Brewster, who is based at Felixstowe, joins PD Ports from DHL International Supply Chain where he was UK business development director for three years.
Andrew Lowdon is based at PD Ports’ headquarters in Middlesbrough, ...
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Jarmo Halonen has been appointed managing director of Greencarrier Freight Services Finland. He was previously MD of the Kauko Group, which was acquired by Itella in 2008. Mr Halonen will also become a co-partner in Greencarrier Freight Services Finland together with Ari Malvela, who will develop road freight, and Pekka ...
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The new London Gateway port has handled its first commercial traffic. Operators DP World and Shell are celebrating the official opening of a new tanker jetty that will deliver a quarter of all aviation fuel to the airports in the South East of England. The container terminal at London Gateway ...
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The EU Court of Auditors (ECA) has called for tighter controls on goods imported into the Union under Customs Procedure 42. The concession allows VAT exemption for goods imported from a third country by an EU state for subsequent delivery to another member state. The regulatory framework absolutely needs to ...
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The European Shippers' Council (ESC) in partnership with its Dutch member, the EVO, is to help develop a new CO2 monitoring programme. The UK's Energy Saving Trust (EST) has also been appointed to develop a tool to deliver benchmarking reports and analysis of truck CO2 emissions.
The initiative aims to generate ...
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Maersk Line is reintroducing its CRX service between Mexico, Costa Rica to Ireland, the UK and northwest Europe, which had been merged with the Ecubex service in mid-2011. It will connect Cork, Tilbury, Rotterdam and Bremerhaven with Veracruz and Altamira in Mexico and is only direct dedicated service in the ...
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Associated British Ports (ABP) and Siemens announce are submitting joint applications to Hull City Council for the development of the Green Port Hull facility. They are for demolition of existing buildings at Alexandra Dock and the development of a factory, office and amenity facilities and a helicopter landing site, as ...
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The Irish Exporters Association said that the country's trade had recovered in 2010 after two straight years of decline in 2008 and 2009, but the trend has not continued into 2011. Exporters fear that shipping lines may not be able to continue the service levels they need to meet new ...
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