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Schenker Limited, the UK arm of DB Schenker Logistics, formally opened its new headquarters building at London Heathrow on 8 October. The 9,900sq m building, which which will also be the main airfreight hub for the country, is close to Schenker's previous Heathrow base at the Unitair centre, a building it inherited following its acquisition of Bax Global.
The new building will be a quantum leap in terms of its design ...
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Ognyan Stefanov from Bulgaria took the first prize in a photo competition organised by Volga Dnepr Group with a picture of one of an An124-100 taking off from Sofia Airport.rize categories were organised by aircraft type, including the An-124, B747 and the IL-76. The best works submitted to the competition ...
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German forwarder Dachser has set up a joint venture in Vietnam. The new company, Dachser Vietnam, is majority-owned by Dachser Far East in Hong Kong and offers services including air and sea freight, customs clearance and a wide variety of other logistics services. In the short term the company plans ...
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Wallenius Wilhelmsen Logistics, the global provider of outbound logistics solutions, has joined forces with Abnormal Loads Services Holding B.V, the specialist in out of gauge supply chain solutions, through the acquisition of a 60% stake in the company.
With the investment in Abnormal Load Services Holding B.V (ALS), Wallenius Wilhelmsen Logistics ...
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Skills for Logistics has won £1.14 million, under the third phase of the UK Commission for Employment and Skills’ Employer Investment Fund to deliver a programme for transition from military to civilian logistics for up to 1000 people leaving the armed forces.
SfL will develop information advice and guidance (IAG) tools specifically ...
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APL Logistics has signed an agreement with Legend Holdings and Beijing Willway Information Technology to acquire all their shares in APLL-Zhiqin Group, a Chinese joint venture partnership among the three parties. The transaction, expected to close by end of the year, will accelerate Singapore-based APL Logistics’ plans to expand its ...
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Yusen Logistics's Russian arm has set a far east branch in Nakhodka. It will respond to growing demand for logistics services in an area of strategic importance linking Eurasia and the Asia Pacific region. It breaks new ground for Yusen Logistics which was previously concentrated in the west of Russia ...
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There has been a sharp increase in the amount of containerised traffic passing through Scottish ports, partly because of the boom in whisky exports, according to a new report on the logistics industry there.
The report, authored by Professor Alan McKinnon of Kuhne University, Hamburg and Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh and published ...
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Two historic British steam locomotives have been landed at the Port of Liverpool as part of a repatriation that will see them take part in celebrations of the world steam speed set by an identical locomotive, Mallard 75 years ago.
The two A4 Pacific locomotives, Dwight D Eisenhower and Dominion of ...
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British Airways and Iberia's IAG Cargo moved 50 oil paintings belonging to the Fundación Guayasamín from Quito, Ecuador,to Madrid, Spain on October 2 for an exhibition in Cadiz. Appropriately, one of the pictures was Las Manos de la Ternura ('Tender Hands'), along with Los Amantes. The paintings weighed a total ...
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