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Cargolux has resumed twice-weekly services to Latacunga instead of Quito following the completion of two years of renovation work at the former airport. Latacunga now has the longest runway in Ecuador, allowing take-offs at full payload and there is no night curfew.
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Heavylift shipping lines BigLift Shipping and Spliethoff have appointed Shearwater Shipping and Chartering as exclusive agent for the former and agent/preferred broker for the latter in the UK and Ireland. Amsterdam-based Spliethoff Group operates over 100 multipurpose and ro-ro vessels on regular direct services from Northern Europe to North America, ...
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Geodis Calberson is offering a Eurotop and Eurofirst 72-hour door-to-door service from the UK to Spain and Portugal as an alternative to airfreight. Its new partner, Buytrago provides overnight express delivery to the whole of Iberia with on-line booking tools providing labelling, estimated delivery dates as well as tracking.
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East Kent forwarder John Shirley has won a Green Apple Environment Award - a national campaign to find Britain’s greenest companies, councils and communities. The company has also been invited to have its winning paper published in The Green Book, the leading international work of reference on environmental best practices. ...
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Rickmers-Linie has added monthly calls at Nagoya to its Round-The-World Pearl String Service. The service calls at Antwerp and Hamburg in Europe.
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Talks between the freight industry and HM Revenue and Customs on future controls for goods moving to Enhanced Remote Transit Sheds broke up without any firm agreement on 30 August. The trade is pressing for the status quo to be maintained after the review highlighted some different interpretations of the ...
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Wallenius Wilhelmsen Logistics has resumed services to the port of Zarate in Argentina. Services had been suspended at the end of May, due to severe congestion. Previous issues with delays in customs processing as well as vehicle processing at the port have also been resolved, says WWL.
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AEB is inviting supply chain professionals to its Third Annual Compliance and Risk Management Conference, on Tuesday, 2nd October 2012, from 10 am to 3.30 pm at the Mallory Court Hotel, Harbury Lane, Leamington Spa, Warwickshire CV33 9QB. Titled “Export Controls: Managing Compliance to your Advantage”, it brings together compliance ...
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The European Commission has resumed its examination of UPS’s proposed acquisition of TNT Express and has set a new deadline, of 20 December. UPS had already extended its public offer for the Dutch-based company from 31 August to 9 November. However, the two companies said they still hoped to complete ...
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Feltham truck driver Jasvinder Arora has been sentenced to eight months in prison for drivers’ hours falsification on journeys to and from the port of Felixstowe. Arora, who traded as Ocean Xpress Logistics, was involved in general haulage in and out of the port. He created false records of the ...
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