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Manchester Airport has gained outline planning application approval for its World Logistics Hub.
Owners MAG had put in an application for the £100 million scheme at the southern part of airport's City Enterprise Zone in August and it was approved by Manchester City Council on 22 November.
MAG’s Airport City director, John Atkins said it was “a big step forward towards starting to deliver new employment opportunities for local people.” The 91.2 ...
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IATA is holding a free workshop on the Electronic Air Waybill (e-AWB) at the Concorde Club, Crane Lodge Road, Cranford, Middlesex, TW5 9PQ on Wednesday 28 November from 09:00 to 13:00.
It aims to raise awareness on e-AWB standards, processes, messages, legal framework, industry targets and ensuring that regulators support the ...
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Animal ferry services from the port of Ramsgate ran into fresh controversy when a vessel carrying about 700 sheep had to return to port because of bad weather. The RSPCA and local MP Sir Roger Gale both criticised the decision to sail, on Wednesday 21 November. The vessel, the Jolene, ...
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The European Commission is due to publish a green paper on how best to create an integrated European parcels market, especially with the growth of online shopping, on 24 November. The report forms part of efforts by Brussels to e-Commerce in the Union.
It notes the current very fragmented state of ...
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Freightliner has taken delivery of its new ‘Shortliner’ wagons and has launched its first services with them. The 40ft deck length, two platform wagons are more efficient because they minimize the amount of unused train space, increasing the number of 40ft containers carried compared with a train of the old ...
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Julian Pedler has joined Steve Porter Transport Group to head-up its new partnership with Meachers Global Logistics for services to the Isle of Wight. His 25 years’ industry experience includes working for Condor Logistics for 18 years. The partners intend to harness Pedler’s experience to develop new offshore markets such ...
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Stena Line CEO, Gunnar Blomdahl is to retire after ten years in the role on 1 January 2013 and will be replaced by Carl-Johan Hagman. He is currently responsible for shipping operations in the Stena Group.
Blomdahl has in his decade at the helm developed Stena into one of the world's ...
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Allport Cargo Services says it has demystified how to build a successful Chinese supply chain in a new white paper. Complex legislation, “evolving”quality control requirements and demanding labeling regulations, plus an underdeveloped logistics industry and poor infrastructure “create daunting barriers to entering the China market,” says Allport’s managing director for ...
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More than 941 parcels containing drugs or precursor chemicals were seized in a Customs enforcement operation targeting postal and express mail channels – a total of over 9.5 tonnes of products including cocaine, heroin and anabolic steroids. The swoop, code-named Sky-net, was organised by the World Customs Organization and China ...
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The second reading of the Parliamentary Bill to introduce a truck levy on UK roads from April 2014 was passed by the House of Commons on 20 November. The next stage ill be for it to be considered by a Public Bill Committee.
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