June 2015
UPS Capital, the financial, insurance and payment services arm of the US-based express giant, has acquired Parcel Pro, an independent logistics provider to the jewellery, wristwatch and collectibles industries. Parcel Pro provides online tracking and visibility, e-reporting, web access and shipping, including via smart phone applications and has locations in the major jewelry districts of New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Miami, Hong Kong, Tokyo and Singapore. It also provides ...
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Fred Osborn is to succeed Carson McMullan as British International Freight Association (BIFA) national chairman, with Mark Bromley becoming vice chairman. Osborn has been the co-owner of X-Pand International Freight since 2000 and has been BIFA's vice chairman for the past two years and was previously chair of BIFA's air ...
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Local MP Ben Gummer has officially opened a new £2.2 million dry bulk warehouse at Associated British Ports Ipswich. The Orwell Bulk Terminal replaces the former ‘Number 3’ warehouse on the River Orwell at Cliff Quay and will provide nearly an acre of purpose built storage for bulk commodities such ...
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P&O Ferries is offering a service to Gothenburg following a link-up with Swedish Orient Line (SOL). Forwarders can now ship their freight from Tilbury and Teesport to Zeebrugge, connecting with the SOL Zeebrugge-Gothenburg service, which operates four days a week. .SOL operates into the Stora terminal in Zeebrugge and P&O ...
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The EU-US Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) suffered another setback in a US Congress vote on 12 June when a coalition of left-wing Democrats and right-wing Republicans voted to terminate the trade adjustment assistance (TAA) programme.
Dating from the 1970s, it provided supported workers made redundant as a result of ...
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A proposal to remove the current three-journey limit on cabotage operations could be included in the European Commission's new road transport package now expected to be unveiled in early 2016, say Brussels sources. The Commission says that the rule – under which transport operations are only supposed to carry out ...
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Etihad Airways is to launch daily flights between Abu Dhabi and Edinburgh in mid-June. Edinburgh is Etihad Airways’ first Scottish destination, and its third point in the UK, alongside a triple-daily operation to London Heathrow and double-daily flights to Manchester.
The Edinburgh service is operated by an Airbus A330-200 ...
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Six Peel Ports Group will find their sea legs this month as they embark on this year’s Apprentice Ship Cup challenge, spending six days and seven nights learning to sail the tall ship Pelican of London from Dublin on 14 June to Greenock via Whitehaven.
Apprentices from all over the UK ...
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The Port of Dover is adding its support to haulage customers and their trade bodies in calling for more action to tackle the migrant crisis in Calais. Chief executive Tim Waggott, says: “The 2.5 million freight vehicles that carry this trade through the French ports to and from Dover are ...
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A legal row has broken out between Channel Tunnel operator Eurotunnel and the ports of Calais and Boulogne, along with local government bodies. It follows Eurotunnel's filing on 10 April of an appeal at the Lille Administrative Court that sought to cancel public funding for the Calais Port 2015 project. ...
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