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Schenker Limited, the UK arm of DB Schenker Logistics, has introduced six more young people to its National Apprenticeship programme following the success of the first two groups. The programme has been running since 2010. The company also have a vacancy for one more in Basildon. The new group will be based from a variety of locations up and down the UK and will undertake a 30 month long apprenticeship ...
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Hong Kong headquartered Toll Global Forwarding has appointed Steve Buckerfield as its UK managing director.His 28 years in the freight industry started as an export clerk at Emery Worldwide, followed by a stint at American Airlines from 1990 until 2004 culminating in his appointment as managing director, sales – Europe. ...
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The TT Club called for more renewed efforts to reach an acceptable global regulation on container weight verification, following a “frustrating” International Maritime Organisation session in late September. The insurer urged all those involved in container operations to prepare in good time for changes to regulations.
TT Club said there was ...
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Rail freight operator operator Freightliner achieved a new daily throughput record of 481 containers handled in Tilbury. Freightliner has a market share of 22% at the port 16 daily services to and from eight UK destinations.
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All-cargo airline Southern Air and its parent company, Southern Air Holdings filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, with its parent company, Southern Air Holdings on 28 September. It followed losses of almost $160 million.
The carrier operates a fleet of 747-200, -400 and 777 cargo planes, some of them on charter to ...
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Shipping lines urgently need to raise prices to their reefer customers, the head of the world's biggest carrier of such traffic, Maersk Line, told the Cool Logistics conference in Antwerp on 25 October. Chief executive officer Soren Skou said: “When I came into this job in January 2009, we had ...
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Dutch-owned supply chain management company Ceva Logistics has launched a less-than-container load (LCL) consolidation service from the UK to Dubai.
The weekly service will operate from Ceva’s consolidation freight station (CFS) in Tamworth, to the company's CFS in the Jebel Ali Free Zone, Dubai in its own consolidated container. Links are ...
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Logistics information provider Soget and and Microsoft are to implementing what is described as the largest port community system in the world for the Indonesia Port Corporation. The Inaportnet (Indonesia Port Net) system will initially be deployed in Jakarta, but it will be expanded to other other locations in in ...
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Southampton will have its new berth for large containerships by early 2014, the port's owner and principal container operator said at a ceremony to mark the start of construction on 27 September. Representatives of Associated British Ports and terminal operator DP World watched an excavator ceremonially lift the first paving ...
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Maersk Line has integrated its back office systems with the GT Nexus cloud supply chain platform. The ocean carrier can now exchange electronic bookings and bill of lading instructions directly with customers
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