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Malaysia Airlines is to upgrade its thrice-weekly A380 flight between London Heathrow and Kuala Lumpur International to daily from 14 August, following the addition of a second Airbus. Departures from Heathrow will be at noon, arriving at Kuala at 07.35 the following day.
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Volga-Dnepr Airlines delivered two patrol boats from Moscow to Vladivostok to help with security at the APEC (Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation) summit in the eastern city in early September. The 20 metre long, 30-tonne high-speed Mangust vessels were loaded onto Volga-Dnepr’s AN-124-100 freighter for the flight on 9 August using a ...
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Grimaldi’s Atlantic Container Line has announced its long-anticipated retonnaging plans. It has signed a contract with a Chinese yard to build what it says will be the largest con-ro (container and ro ro) ships in the world. The ‘G4’ class ships will offer 3800teu of container capacity and a ro ...
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DB Schenker Rail has announced that its planned expansion of its Poland-UK rail service to twice-weekly will take place on 9 October. The operator has been running a weekly service between Wroclaw and London Barking since November 2011. Trains will leave London for Poland on Tuesday and Fridays, with departures ...
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The U-Freight Group has named Steven Wong as vice president - sales & marketing, of its main subsidiaries, U-Freight Ltd and U-Ocean Ltd, in Hong Kong. Mr Wong joined UFL in 2009 as general manager of Rijin International Freight Co, one of the group’s freight forwarding brands. He will continue ...
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Shipping reliability improved to a new record high of 75.7% in the second quarter of 2012, said Drewry Maritime Research’s latest quarterly report, Carrier Performance Insight, published on 9 August.
There was a 3.4% improvement from the reliability level seen in the first quarter of 2012. Ship arrival reliability improved particularly ...
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The VAT rules have changed for some port community systems charges, reports BIFA in its latest newsletter. Some services that were previously zero-rated are now liable to standard-rate VAT, it says.
BIFA advises that freight forwarders can continue to charge the net amount as an invoice disbursement, when handling an international ...
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CEVA Logistics has renewed its partnership with the UK canned fish brand, John West, with a €16.9 million contract. CEVA will continue to provide domestic supply chain solutions in the UK, which include collecting cleared cargo from the port of Felixstowe and onward movement to CEVA’s shared user facility in ...
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Kintetsu World Express (Taiwan) is to open a warehouse in the Farglory Free Trade Zone in January 2014, next to Taoyuan International Airport. It is also 30km west of Taipei harbour. The warehouse will be the largest of any international distributor in Taiwan.
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Nine Harbour Police at the Ports of Teesport and Hartlepool have been awarded the Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal. The commemorative medal, created to mark the Queen's 60th anniversary of the accession to the throne of HM the Queen, was presented to the Harbour Police by PD Ports’ chief ...
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