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The geography of the modern global supply chain is making it vulnerable to the weather, says leading consultant. Dave Alberts, director at UK-based 'end-to-end' supply chain experts Crimson & Co, says that concentration of manufacturing in specific areas of the world makes supplies of many components particularly vulnerable to disruption.
For example, he says, a quarter of the world’s hard drives come from a relatively concentrated area around Bangkok. “Clearly there ...
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Portsmouth City Council and the Unite union are to hold talks after quay assistants at the council-owned port voted unanimously in favour of strike action in a dispute over new working contracts. They have agreed to meet on Monday 23 July to commence negotiations to resolve the dispute.
An overtime ban ...
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Famous Pacific Shipping (FPS) Lanka has launched a weekly ocean consolidation service from Sri Lanka to key points in the Maldives Islands, which lie to the south of India.
The Maldives - comprising several atolls and hundreds of small islands – provide many challenges for shipping, due to the widely-varying and ...
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Kerry Logistics has started building a ninth, 11,000 sq. m. warehouse in the Song Thang area of Ho Chi Minh City in Vietnam. It is due to be completed in the first quarter of 2013. Kerry opened a logistics centre in Hanoi in 2011 and a 9,000 sq m facility ...
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A seaman has died and another is missing after the 6732teu MSC Flaminia caught fire in the middle of the Atlantic. The 11-year-old chartered vessel was on MSC's voyage number 1225R and had departed Charleston on 7 July and was due in Antwerp on 17 July. She was due to call ...
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BG Freight Line is introducing a weekly container service using a 700teu ship between Rotterdam, Liverpool and Belfast on 21 July. Departures from Rotterdam are on Monday, arriving Liverpool Wednesday and Belfast of Thursday and arriving back in Rotterdam om Saturday. Connections are available in Liverpool for destinations on the Manchester ...
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The European Commission has asked for more time to review UPS's proposed acquisition of TNT Express , saying that there are certain areas that require more time to analyze. As a 'Phase II' investigation can take up to 25 weeks to complete, it is likely the offer condition relating to ...
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Handler John Menzies is to close its cargo operations at Birmingham, East Midlands, Glasgow and Manchester airports as part of a restructuring of its business. It will retain its operations at London Heathrow, Aberdeen and Belfast as well as operations in 20 other countries. It blamed excess capacity and a ...
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The Irish Exporters Association (IEA) warned of "dire consequences" if Aer Lingus' airfreight service to US is not retained in the privatisation of the state-owned carrier, Business World reported on 16 July. At a meeting with Minister for Transport Leo Varadkar, the IEA said that the service was vital to ...
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BigLift Shipping completed the last of two challenging shipments on its vessels Happy Diamond and Happy Dover for the US Steel Corporation in Clairton, Pennsylvania, from Lubeck (Germany), to Mobile. The 350-tonne loads had to be placed inside the hold with only inches to spare on each side. Moreover, due ...
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