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The creeping extension of the Russian TIR ban is continuing, with the restrictions also being applied to the Privolzhsky Customs Directorate, the International Road Transport Union reported on 2 October. The IRU said that the move would particularly affect the Bashkortostan, Nizhegorodskaya, Orenburg, Perm, Samara, Saratov, Tatarstan, Ulyanovsk and Privolzhskaya areas. Although the exact scope of these measures is not yet known, customs offices concerned are likely to refuse to ...
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Short sea shipping and logistics specialist OPDR (Oldenburg-Portugiesische Dampfschiffs-Rhederei) and Team Lines are to launch a new domestic and feeder container service between Bilbao, Felixstowe and Rotterdam on 13 October. The service will provide a fixed day schedule with fast transit times between Northern Spain and the UK, as well ...
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Yusen Logistics (Cambodia) will start operations on 1 November, said the Japanese owned forwarder. Yusen Logistics set up a Phnom Penh representative office in 2011 and has expanded its business through local partners , prompting the company to launch its own corporation. Yusen Logistics has developed a range of forwarding ...
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Palletways has won a new contract with Italian importer distributor and retailer, OrganiCulture. The company will outsource its domestic warehousing and distribution to Palletways Fulfilment, the Group’s warehousing solutions operation, following a successful trial period including a pick/pack service, modification and re-work.
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Norbert Dentressangle has gained approval from the French competition authorities for its agreement to take over Daher’s freight forwarding activities in France and three in Russia, announced on 16 July.
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DB Schenker's national organization in Turkey is setting up its own domestic network for procurement and distribution. Services are already available from Edirne via Istanbul to distribution nodes at Bursa and Izmir and between Eskisehir, Afyon and Antalya. A third phase of the project is for services from Istanbul to ...
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Kuehne + Nagel has appointed Marcus Bennett as national manager for its UK organisation. He succeeds Yngve Ruud who will move to the company’s Western Europe headquarters in Hamburg. Bennett is a 24-year KN veteran, and became national manager, Ireland ten years ago.
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Schenker Limited has appointed Michael Sims as its new ocean freight director. He replaces Glen Boyce who has taken up a full-time role within the group as head of ocean freight, region Europe North, at DB Schenker Logistics.
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The British International Freight Association is warning of a scam involving Chinese freight forwarders. UK forwarders receive emails that appear to be from independent forwarding companies in China looking for UK partners and offering cheap ocean rates.
But cargoes arrive at the UK port without the UK forwarder having received the ...
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Volga-Dnepr Airlines’ used one of its Antonov AN-124-100 freighters to deliver over 90 tons of oilfield equipment from Calgary in Canada to the Russian city of Surgut. The transportation was ordered by CIS region forwarder Dialog Freight International.
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