November 2016
Stansted and East Midlands are among three new Etihad freighter services to its Abu Dhabi hub. Last month Etihad Cargo started operating its Boeing 777 freighters from East Midlands and Stansted airports as well as to Copenhagen in Denmark.
Senior vice president of Etihad Cargo, David Kerr, said: “These three new services will connect producers with consumers halfway around the world. Manufacturers in the UK and Denmark can now get ...
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EQT Infrastructure II has completed its acquisiton of GB Railfreight from the Eurotunnel Group, announced ealier. The UK operator will be abought through an indirectly owned company within the Hector Rail group, EQT’s Scandinavian-based rail freight operation. GBRf founder and chief executive, John Smith, said: “EQT’s business model is very ...
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CEVA Logistics is collaborating with medical technology company Medtronic on a new 33,000 m2 distribution facility next to its existing Centre of Excellence in Heerlen. The facility, now under construction, will enable the company to reach over 15,000 hospitals and clinics in Europe within 24 hours. A new distribution centre ...
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The Supply Chain Academy, Leeds Trinity University and the Institute of Supply Chain Management have developed a new degree apprenticeship course, in conjunction with a group of logistics and supply chain firms.
The scheme was awarded a £50,000 development grant from the Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE). A degree ...
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Turkish Cargo has launched a weekly full freighter service from its Istanbul hub to Chennai and Colombo. It departs from the Turkish city on Wednesdays.
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Should shipping lines go head to head?
Shipping lines might in future have to compete head to head rather than through the current system of alliances, consortia and vessel sharing agreements, says the Global Shippers Forum (GSF) in a new report.
The report (The Implications of Mega-Ships and Alliances for Competition and ...
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Brexit could be an opportunity for the UK to revisit the idea of freeports, according to a report authored by Richmond, Yorkshire MP, Rishi Sunak and published by think tank, the Centre for Policy Studies.
The report – co-authored by researchers Isaac Delestre and Philip Naylor - argues that free ports ...
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AMI – the world’s largest airfreight and express wholesaler – celebrates its 40th birthday this month. Originally launched as part of the Air Marketing International group in 1976, the company split away in 1978 under founder and managing director Tony Realff.
Today the company owns operations in 27 locations.
Sharon Wright, AMI’s ...
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The Channel Tunnel has fundamentally changed the way the UK does business, and accounts for a massive slice of the entire UK’s exports and imports, says a new report by consultants Ernst & Young.
In 1994, the Tunnel handled trade worth £91.4bn, or a quarter of all UK trade in goods ...
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Europa Worldwide has appointed Deborah Khan to a new sales executive position in its Showfreight division. She has previously worked at NEC Group, Panalpina, Kemps Publishing, World Transport and the Birmingham Post & Mail.
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