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Norbert Dentressangle will feature in a BBC series about the untold story of Heathrow airport is run. The programme, which airs on BBC2 at 8pm on Wednesday 19 June, explores the role of Norbert Dentressangle’s Perishables Handling Centre (PHC) – Europe’s largest chilled airfreight handling centre – in Episode 3 of Airport Live,
As part of its behind-the-scenes look at the airside operations at one of the world’s busiest airports, Anita ...
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The containership MOL Comfort suffered a crack amidships while under way in rough seas from Singapore to Jeddah in the Indian Ocean at about 07:00 local time on June 17. Some of the containers have been lost overboard or been damaged but the 26 crew are all safe.
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The Unite union warns that a strike at Menzies World Cargo is imminent after 89% of Heathrow based workers voted in favour of action in protest at a two year pay freeze in 2012 and 2013. The union says that Menzies made £35.6 million in underlying operating profits in 2012 ...
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Air France-KLM-Martinair Cargo has stepped up its cargo cooperation with Etihad by adding a twice-weekly Abu Dhabi to its freighter network in addition to the existing double daily A330 service between Amsterdam and Abu Dhabi.
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EU trade ministers finally agreed on the negotiating mandate for the US-EU trade deal on 14 June, paving the way for the talks to be officially launched at the this week's G8 summit in Northern Ireland. A compromise deal with the French excluded the film and television sector was excluded ...
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EU trade ministers finally agreed on the negotiating mandate for the US-EU trade deal on 14 June, paving the way for the talks to be officially launched at the following week's G8 summit in Northern Ireland. A compromise deal with the French excluded the film and television sector was excluded ...
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Ferry operator Stena Line is offering a new ship-rail service between the UK and Poznan in Poland via Rotterdam in co-operation with ERS Railways. There are five train departures a week, connecting with Stena's regular service to and from Harwich.
Stena's freight commercial manager for the North Sea area, Rob Mittelmeijer, ...
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Davies Turner is again seeking applicants for its National Apprenticeship programme following the high retention rate amongst candidates in the past three years of the scheme.
The new group will be based at locations up and down the UK and will undertake a 20 month long apprenticeship with the independent forwarding ...
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The British International Freight Association (BIFA) is once again seeking entries for its annual Freight Service Awards competition. Now in their 25th year, they will celebrate a quarter of a century of the best in UK forwarding.
And in a notable vote of confidence in the awards, the same award category ...
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If their house caught fire, there was nothing the 100,000 inhabitants of Riberalta in Bolivia could do about it because the town did not have a single fire engine. Now though, the river settlement is the proud possessor of a gleaming US machine – thanks to Glasgow-based forwarder, KC Group ...
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