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Registration for Multimodal has gone live, as top speakers sign up for seminars.
Multimodal, the UK and Ireland’s leading supply chain event, has gone live with registration at www.multimodal.org.uk
Visitors can sign for the free-to-attend exhibition, as well as topical seminar and master-class sessions at the NEC Birmingham, 23rd to the 25th of April.
“Multimodal is a one-stop-shop for shippers who need to find ways of optimising their supply chain and transportation flows," ...
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DB Schenker has announced the appointment of Petra Kuester as the new CFO of Schenker Limited. She will join towards the end of January replacing Per Holst-Nielsen who has moved back to Sweden to a position within Schenker AB.
Born in Oxford, she has experience in the logistics, banking, power and ...
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Turkey's Pegasus Cargo has appointed Dubai-based Leisure Cargo FZCO as cargo general sales agent for the Middle East, Africa and Indian sub-continent regions.
Vice President Cargo of Pegasus Airlines, Aydin Alpa, says of the new partnership: 'We are delighted to announce that Pegasus Cargo will be expanding its service network via Leisure Cargo ...
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UPS has abandoned its bid to take over Dutch-owned express rival TNT Express in the face of opposition from Brussels. The US-based parcels giant said on 14 January that it had learned that the European Commission was working on a decision to prohibit the proposed acquisition.
UPS had already submitted proposed “remedies” ...
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Cathay Pacific’s new Hong Kong cargo terminal will start operations on 21 February, with a three-stage switchover to the new facility for Cathay and Dragonair from that date.
Under stage one, valuable cargo, transit civil mail and interface transfer transhipments for the two airlines will move to the new facility, followed ...
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Retired British freight forwarder Christopher Tappin was sentenced to 33 months in prison by a court in El Paso, Texas, on Wednesday 9 January. The 65-year-old had pleaded guilty in November to attempting to illegally sell missile parts to Iran in what transpired to be a US Customs ‘sting’ operation. ...
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Brittany Ferries is celebrating the completion of the RN174 through the Cotentin peninsula. It creates a toll-free dual carriageway link from Cherbourg to the A84, making its Cherbourg to Poole service as attractive as its St Malo and Caen routes for its freight customers. The return from mid-March of the ...
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The world’s first purpose built wind turbine installation vessel, the MPI Adventure, recently visited PD Ports Hartlepool. It was also the first time the north-eastern port has handled a vessel of this size. The visit was in connection with the Teesside Offshore Windfarm Project, for which the Port of Hartlepool ...
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DB Schenker Rail UK said it welcomed the rail industry's Strategic Business Plan, published on 8 January. The cross-industry document supports Network Rail's plan for the railway over the next five year 'control period' from 2014 to 2019. The plan confirms continued development of the Strategic Rail Freight Network, with ...
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The European Commission says that weaknesses have emerged in transport security procedures, and more efforts were needed made at international level. In a communication on customs risk management and security of the supply chain published on 8 January. it said that effective risk management was essential to security and to ...
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