March 2014
As part of Pegasus Cargo's new sales structure for Europe and the Balkans, ABDA Cargo Services LLC is now responsible for Germany in addition to Austria, Denmark, France, Spain, Sweden and Switzerland.
As from 16 March Aviation Services becomes cargo general sales agent for Greece as well as Albania, Bosnia, Kosovo, Macedonia, Romania and Serbia.
Vice President of Pegasus Cargo, Aydin Alpa, says of the new cargo general sales agents: “During 2013 ...
[+]
CMA CGM has added a new weekly direct call in Buchanan (Liberia),100km south of Monrovia, to its PC North service to Tangiers, making it the only operator to call there in 20 years. This new weekly call on Wednesdays is mainly to service exports of wood, rubber, palm oil and ...
[+]
Yusen Logistics has promoted UK managing director Ian Veitch to managing director of Yusen Logistics (Europe). He will also take up the position as Chief Regional Officer of the Europe Region and becomes the first non-Japanese Executive Officer of Yusen Logistics , from April 2014. He will be based at ...
[+]
BIFA reports in its latest newsletter that Europol, the international police organisation, is warning of ‘Trojan horse’ thefts from delivery lorries in which thieves hide themselves inside large wooden boxes. The boxes, marked ‘Fragile’ are picked-up by parcel delivery services and, once the box is inside a lorry, en route ...
[+]
Yusen is to merge its two companies in Vietnam - Yusen Logistics Solutions (Vietnam) and Yusen Logistics International (Vietnam) from 1 April. Due to regulations on foreign capital investments in Vietnam, Yusen Logistics' affiliates in the country have operating as two entities— the former company specialised in ocean freight forwarding ...
[+]
Intermodal transport operator, Ruscon, has launched Russia’s first regular intermodal service to carry flexitank containers to Kazakhstan. Containers can be shipped to Novorossiysk, from where they are carried on Ruscon flat-car rail wagons to a bonded warehouse run by Kedentransservice in Mangyshlak, Kazakhstan for customs clearance and transport by road ...
[+]
The European Commission is planning to open its borders early to Ukrainian products, effectively bringing forward its own concessions contained in a Deep and Comprehensive Free Trade Area due to come into force in November to June. The plan depends on the European Parliament voting in favour of the plan ...
[+]
Essex-based medical device firm LE West was fined £3,000 plus costs at Chelmsford Magistrates Court on 11 March for attempting to airfreight incorrectly packaged lithium batteries from Stansted t in May 2013.
The court was told that the company had tried to send four lithium manganese dioxide battery packs in medical ...
[+]
Peter Gerber has been named as the new chief executive and chairman of Lufthansa Cargo, while current cargo chief Karl Ulrich Garnadt’s is to head up the carrier’s passenger business.
Gerber has been responsible at board level for human resources, IT and services on the executive board of Lufthansa German Airlines ...
[+]
Liverpool-based maritime advisory firm and consultancy Focus Maritime (North West) is to promote Canada's Halifax Port in Europe. The Nova Scotia-based port authority wants to strengthen its presence across the continent. Liverpool-based Local Liverpool man Graham Fraser (pictured below) will take on the role of director, business development and growth ...
[+]
« Back
More »
