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Freight forwarder BDP International is now offering customised logistics solutions for construction, mining, power generation, chemical and other infrastructure projects at its office in Dartford, Kent.
The US-owned company now has heavy-lift capabilities, which previously were handled by our offices in Antwerp and Nuremberg and has already handled a 500-ton shipment of turbines and generators from Germany to the UK.
Services available include end-to-end materials management and tracking, freight negotiation and carrier ...
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UPS has revealed its plans for the delivery of London 2012 team kit to Paralympic athletes across the UK, involving the warehousing, packing and delivery of more than 27,000 items to over 300 athletes.
The first step in the process will involve UPS warehousing all of the kit, so it can ...
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Air services company Dnata has appointed Gary Morgan as CEO for its UK operation. He brings almost 30 years of experience in the aviation industry and extensive experience in both the ground handling and cargo handling markets in the UK, having held numerous senior positions at Servisair including executive vice ...
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Projects FPS - the recently-established project forwarding and third-party logistics arm of Famous Pacific Shipping Lanka – has launched a dedicated logistics centre which, as well as providing a full third-party logistics service including labelling, packing, storage, inventory management and nationwide distribution also incorporates a document storage and archiving facility. ...
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The Northern Ireland Assembly has unanimously passed the Goods Vehicles Licensing of Operators Transport Bill, bringing the O Licence regime to Ulster for the first time. It will bring Operator Licensing, to all operators of commercial vehicles above 3.5 tonnes. The move was welcomed by the Freight Transport Association, which said ...
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The Paris Commercial Court has accepted Channel Tunnel operator Eurotunnel's offer for three ships belonging to SeaFrance, which went into administration in January.
Eurotunnel, along with a DFDS-LD Lines consortium and a workers' cooperative had been potential runners for the SeaFrance ships.
Groupe Eurotunnel offered €65 million to acquire the Berlioz, Rodin ...
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Delays to seafreight containers are almost as much due to do with processes as with delays to ships, according to a new report by SeaIntel. The Danish-based analyst said that reliability statistics - based on SeaIntel's analysis of Inttra’s global data of over 800,000 container status messages per day – suggested ...
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Several EU member states said they were ready to enshrine the Blue Belt short sea facilitation pilot project into permanent legislation at the Transport Council in Luxembourg in early June. A total of 255 ships took part in the pilot phase of the Blue Belt project, which aims to simplify administrative ...
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The US Transportation Security Administration (TSA) has announced a 3 December deadline for passenger air carriers to carry out 100% screening of cargo on US-bound international flights. However, the UK's existing screening regime already meets the new US requirement.
“It will be business as usual for us from the deadline date,” ...
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Business Secretary Vince Cable officially opened a fourth new multi-deck trade vehicle terminal at the Port of Southampton on 7 June to meet extra demand for UK car exports. The terminal is part of a major investment by Associated British Ports (ABP) to expand its vehicle export facilities. ABP announced ...
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