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Geodis Wilson has appointed Eric Martin-Neuville as chief operating officer and freight board member. He takes over from Fernando Gea who is retiring.
Martin-Neuville joined the Geodis Group in 1985, and as well as holding the position of managing director, Geodis Wilson France, for many years, has worked for the group in Asia-Pacific.
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PD Ports has installed a new Navis terminal operating system at Teesport.It covers both the wide span gantry crane operations and logistics areas. Frans Calje, PD Ports’ managing director for unitised traffic, said it would be “a fundamental change in how we do business at Teesport”. It marks the completion of PD ...
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U-Freight partner EFL International Distribution is offering a new motorbike shipping service aimed at tourists visiting Ireland. Currently, bikers visiting Ireland face a dilemma – cross Europe and sail to Ireland slowly by ferry – or fly there without their bikes.
The new Bike-on-Board (BOB) service aims to resolve this by ...
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Allport is celebrating its 50th anniversary in 2013 with a new corporate identity. The global rebrand is described as the first component in the move to position Allport Cargo Services as an ethical global forwarder, with resources to match.media info 2013-low
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K Line has donated 2 million yen (£140,000) to the Japanese Red Cross Society to help victims of December's typhoon in the Mindanao Island area in the Philippines. The country is the largest supplier of seafarers not only for K Line but also for the maritime industry around the world.
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Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government Eric Pickles has given the go-ahead for an intermodal rail freight terminal at Radlett near St Albans. However, local MP Anne Main suggested that a legal challenge to the controversial plan might still be possible. The news was however welcomed by Freight ...
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The Logistics Institute at Hull University Business School is offering logistics and supply chain managers a flexible three-module programme course to help them to get to grips with the subject
The first one day module is an introduction for those relatively new to the profession – or a refresher for old ...
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Middle East airline Etihad has made three new appointments to its Cargo division in Abu Dhabi. Robert Fordree has been promoted from senior network performance manager to head of cargo handling. Rory Black has been appointed head of cargo commercial planning, joining from Gulf Air. And Roberto Casabianca joins Etihad ...
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British-based toy seller Hamleys has extended its partnership with Kuehne + Nagel. A new logistics solution based on a hub at the Yantian Bonded Logistics Park in China will consolidate of inbound supplier volumes, and help future growth.
Established over 250 years ago, Hamleys is now a global company with stores ...
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A multimodal effort ensured that a seven metre Christmas tree greeted passengers on the Hapag Lloyd Cruises ship MS Europa on Christmas morning.
The tree was grown and felled in Austria and started its journey to join up with the cruise ship on the back of a 12 metre truck to London. ...
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