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The freight forwarding industry has come through the recession with its profitability relatively intact, but it has been a volatile and difficult year, say consultants Transport Intelligence (Ti). Global Freight Forwarding 2012 – published on 12 July – and one of the few surveys dedicated to the industry found that overall freight forwarding volume bounced back in 2010 from the low point reached following the bank collapses and global credit ...
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European Parliament President Martin Schulz has written to European Commission President José Manuel Barroso asking him to postpone plans to allow 25.5 metre trucks – so called gigaliners - to operate cross-border between countries that allow them on their domestic territories. It follows a letter sent to member states by ...
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The draft aviation policy framework, published by the Government on 12 July, promised further liberalisation of the UK market to encourage foreign airlines to develop routes from airports other than Heathrow , along measures to improve reliability at Heathrow. It also promised to push for international action on aviation emissions ...
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The Dutch coastline changed forever on 11 July when Queen Beatrix symbolically completed a massive land reclamation project as part of the Maasvlakte 2 development. At slack water contractors Boskalis and Van Oord closed the gap in the eleven-kilometre long seawall. President and CEO of the Port of Rotterdam Authority, ...
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Yusen Logistics has opened a specialist automotive operation at its Tamworth facility. The 81,000sq ft site by the M42 operation has been developed in response to requests from first and second tier suppliers for decanting, crossdocking, stockholding and sequencing operations in readiness for just-in-time feeding to Midlands assembly operations.
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DHL Express opened its US$175 million North Asia Hub at Shanghai Pudong International Airport on 12 July, its biggest in Asia. It also announced plans to further invest US$132 million (in an additional eight dedicated aircraft to service high demand routes between Shanghai and North Asia, Europe and the US, ...
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Women in Logistics unveiled its first two annual award winners at a ceremony in Warwick on 6 July which also raised £8,000 for charity Transaid.
Adele Waite, general manager of a $1.25bn global contract for DHL and who has driven growth of return on capital employed by 740%, won the award ...
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Port of Tyne chairman Sir Ian Wrigglesworth has stepped down and will be replaced by deputy chairman Sir Les Elton, reports NE Business. Sir Ian piloted the commercialisation of the trust-owned port which, as well as increasing car business from the nearby Nissan plant at Sunderland has also developed a ...
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Rhenus Contract Logistics is building new 55,000sq m premises at Son en Breugel, near Eindhoven in the Netherlands. Construction at the site, near the A50 and A2 motorways, is due to start immediately after the summer of 2012, with a planned handover date for the first phase on 1 March ...
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Panalpina has invested £750,000 in its Aberdeen operation and plans to add 15 people to its existing 160-strong workforce at its base in Bucksburn, Aberdeen, reports the Press & Journal newspaper. Increased oil and gas business also prompted the purchase of six new trucks, taking its total Aberdeen fleet to ...
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