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Ramsgate-Ostend ferry operator TransEuropa has suspended its sailings after it went into administration. The service had become increasingly erratic in recent weeks, after being reduced to a single vessel. TransEuropa, which carried freight and passengers, was the sole regular operator out of Ramsgate and the only ferry service into Ostend.
The operator had already returned the Ostend Spirit (formerly the Pride of Calais) to its owners P&O Ferries.
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Mitsui OSK Lines will donate the equivalent of 2 million yen to victims of the massive earthquake that hit China’s Sichuan province this April. Executives and employees at MOL group companies in China and in Hong Kong are working on fund-raising.
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Skills for Logistics is inviting logistics employers, schools, colleges and universities are invited to attend a series of‘Breakfast with Logistics’ events, which are being held at the Novotel Milton Keynes on 15 May and the Novotel Coventry on 23 of May.
The free to attend, trade-fair style events will feature table-top ...
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UPS is to buy Hungarian-based pharmaceutical logistics company, Cemelog as part of its campaign to increase its healthcare presence. It expects to complete the transaction in the second quarter of 2013.
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Air France-KLM-Martinair Cargo is offering new connections from Istanbul Together in partnership with Turkey's MNG Airlines. They are Tripoli (Mitiga airport) and Benghazi in Libya and Ekaterinburg in Russia and vice versa. Flights will be operated by B737 freighters. The French-Dutch carrier offers A300F freighter capacity from Paris CDG to ...
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Nigeria-based Creseada International joined the WACO network of over 50 leading independent forwarders at the group's conference and annual general meeting in Mauritius in mid-April. Delegates from 60 countries heard that recent research pointed to a range of significant opportunities for independents, WACO-System executive director, Richard Charles told the gathering. An on-line survey ...
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Norbert Dentressangle's freight forwarding arm has opened a second office in Brazil, in Rio de Janeiro. It opened offices in Sao Paulo in Brazil and Santiago in Chile in 2011. The new location is at the heart of Brazil’s major oil and gas and shipbuilding industries, and will also be ...
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Air charter broker Air Partner, has appointed Saeed Ghodrat to its freight team as an account manager. He has four years of experience in freight forwarding, most recently at SDV Aerospace.
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Samskip Van Dieren Multimodal is running a shuttle train between Duisburg in Germany and Älmhult in southern Sweden with a transit time of 15 hours. The service can carry Huckepack mega trailers and 45ft containers. Connections to and from the UK via Duisburg are available.
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Swiss International Air Lines chief cargo officer, Oliver Evans and Schiphol senior vice president cargo, Enno Osinga, were elected as the new chairman and vice chairman respectively of The International Air Cargo Association (TIACA) at the Association’s AGM in Dallas on 23 April. Oliver, who has held the post of ...
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