February 2015
AV Dawson - which recently opened a new 102,000sq ft, £6.5m steel store - has handled its largest ship to date at its North Sea Supply Base in Middlesbrough. The 12,500dwt MV Lone owned by SAL Heavy Lift arrived during the night of 12 February to collect materials for the construction of another specialist vessel in Singapore.
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C.H. Robinson Europe, a steering member of the Green Freight Europe initiative, has received the First Leaf Award, bestowed on companies that have shared CO2 data and information on policies, strategy, and intentions to reduce transport emissions. The award is part of a four-tier labelling program by Green Freight Europe ...
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Freight forwarder Rhenus Logistics has launched a new graduate programme to attract students with skills from non traditional subjects to encourage the next generation to take up a career in the logistics sector.
Separate placements focus on managerial skills and the other on engineering and both will run for 24 months.
Chester ...
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Specialist freight marketing consultancy Actualis has joined forces with CILT to highlight the performance gap and how forwarders can reduce it, with a workshop for Heathrow forwarders on 24 March, at the Holiday Inn, Sipson. ‘Grow your business 20 times faster' will demonstrate how management can use existing resources and ...
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Forwarder a.hartrodt (UK) has bought new UK headquarters in the Hatton Cross area of Heathrow. Hartrodt House dates back to around 1900 and initially hosted a school but was converted to offices in the 1980s and a modern annexe added.
The company moved into the new premises in January after ...
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Japan-based forwarder Kintetsu World Express has agreed terms to buy APL Logistics from Singapore's Neptune Orient Lines, for US$1.2 billion, subject to shareholder and regulatory approval. The move would allow NOL to focus on its main liner shipping businesssaid president and CEO, Ng Yat Chung. At the same time strengthen ...
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Ecommerce-Europe identified 20 priorities for “breaking down the barriers" in the EU e-commerce sector, including the VAT system and updating the consumer rights and legal framework an 'Agenda for e-commerce' on 12 February, ahead of a stakeholders’ meeting on the digital single market in Brussels on 24 February.
Ecommerce-Europe, which represents ...
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Middle East-owned container line UASC has signed another partnership – with CMA CGM and Hamburg Süd, to bring it onto the North Atlantic service for the first time. Under a vessel sharing agreement, the service will call at north-west Europe, Southampton, New York, Norfolk, Charleston and Savannah and vice-versa, with ...
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The CKYHE shipping alliance - COSCON, “K”Line, Yang Ming, Hanjin and Evergreen Line - is reorganizing its Asia-Europe service but will remain faithful to the port of Felixstowe in the UK. Felixstowe will be the sole UK call for four of the North Europe services, which will be operated by ...
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GEFCO UK has been appointed a key logistics provider to Laminar Medica, experts in the design, test, manufacture and qualification of insulated shipping systems for the pharmaceutical and biotech industries. The forwarder will collect from Laminar Medica’s manufacturing facilities in Tring, Hertfordshire, for seafreight shipment to pharmaceutical customers in India, ...
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