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Geodis UK is running four new direct services to Germany. The operate daily to Hanover in 48 hours and daily to Ense, near to Dortmund with similar transit times. There are also direct links to Hamburg and Bremen, operated in conjunction with Geodis’s northern German partner the Bursped Group.
Geodis already has long-running daily services operated in partnership with Cargoline,. to Freiburg, Schweinfurt, Nuremburg and Stuttgart. Connections are also available with ...
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EU Climate Action Commissioner Connie Hedegaard said on November 12 that inclusion of international aviation in the EU Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS) would be suspended. Brussels would instead allow the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) to develop a global solution for managing aviation carbon emissions.
The ETS scheme has run into ...
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Transport minister Simon Burns officially opened a new piece of railway designed to speed freight from Felixstowe to the Midlands on 14 November. A rail 'flyover' at Nuneaton will remove conflicts between freight and passenger trains at the vital junction and is part of a long-term investment programme on the ...
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Air charter company Chapman Freeborn has made two senior appointments at its new Moscow office opened earlier this year. They are Alexey Zuev as commercial director, whose career includes roles at Panalpina World Transport, DHL and Volga-Dnepr Airlines, and latterly as general manager for SkyLink Aviation in Russia.
Working alongside Alexey ...
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The London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games has boosted exports because it has given the UK a major reputation boost among multinational business leaders, says new research by UPS and the Centre for Economics and Business Research. The joint study said there had been an ‘Olympics effect’ among senior executives ...
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PD Ports chief executive officer David Robinson and business development director, Geoff Lippitt flew out to Asia in mid-November to meet customers to highlight the changing face of UK logistics.
The eight day tour which includes three days in Japan and five days in Hong Kong is the first in a ...
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Peter MacSwiney, chairman of freight software firm ASM (Agency Sector Management) has received a ‘Transparency in Tax’ award from HMRC. The awards took place at Chancellor George Osborn's residence at 11 Downing Street on 12 November and were presented by Exchequer Secretary to the Treasury, David Gauke MP.
Peter MacSwiney has ...
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Logistics service providers and freight forwarders are optimistic about 2013, according to a survey by logistics research firm Transport Intelligence and software provider Kewill.
Four-fifths of the 484 international businesses surveyed reported slight business expansion over the past two years but crucially, over three quarters expect this to continue in 2013.
Growth ...
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The state of the UK economy, environmental challenges and a looming skills gap are among the challenges facing the UK logistics and supply chain sector according to a monograph by Hull University Business School's Professor David Grant.
Professor Grant, who is director of the school's Logistics Institute, authored the paper for ...
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Skills for Logistics (SfL) and The Logistics Guild formally launched the Military Work Placement Scheme on 8 November. The pilot scheme offes 1000 people leaving the military fully funded, two week work placements with quality civilian logistics organisations. Skills for Logistics has received £1.14 million of government funding to deliver ...
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