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Wallenius Wilhelmsen Logistics said on 21 May that it had suspended service to Argentina due to severe congestion at the port of Zarate. The situation there had increasingly worsened in the past several weeks as there have been extended pauses in vehicle processing during government holidays as well as Customs' prohibition of vehicle imports while it examines tax policies related to automotive imports. At the moment, vehicle processing is at ...
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DB Schenker in Ireland has opened a new logistics centre at Furry Park, Santry, near Dublin. The nearly 8,000 square metre high-bay warehouse is the largest letting in the first quarter of 2012 in the country and follows the opening of a new DBS facility in Cork earlier in the year. ...
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Under Secretary for Transport Norman Baker has rejected a challenge to the port of Dover's harbour dues by ferry operators. P&O Ferries Holdings, SeaFrance and DFDS had lodged objections to the dues as part of an ongoing dispute between the port authority and the operators over the port's use of ...
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DHL has officially extended its day definite road service into Iraq, reports the TradeArabia News Service.
The DHL Economy Select service will complement the existing airfreight and time definite services, and will serve countries across the Gulf and and Levant region with a slower transit time but without weight and size ...
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Pall-Ex boss and Dragon's den panellist Hilary Devey has called for greater trade links between Turkey and the UK on the day of a visit by chief commercial counsellor of the Republic of Turkey, Tankut Aydin and other Turkish associations to the Leicestershire-based company.
During the visit, organised in conjunction with ...
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British Airways is to launch three-times-a-week services between Gatwick and Las Vegas on 29 October. Operated by a Boeing 777, the new flights together with the existing Heathrow service will bring total BA flights to ten a week.
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Cargolux Airlines has added Manaus, Brazil, to its network. The weekly service departs Luxembourg on Saturdays at 18:00 arriving, via São Paulo at 05:20 the next day. It then operates via Quito, Bogota and Maastricht. Manaus, the capital of the region is also a free trade zone that has developed into one ...
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The Unite trade union has called an urgent meeting with shadow transport secretary alleging that a small number of independent Felixstowe-based hauliers are carrying out “systematic abuses” of the Working Time Directive.
A delegation of drivers, members of Unite, met with the Labour Party’s Maria Eagle on 22 May to raise ...
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Immingham haulage company ABC (Grimsby) has been sentenced for safety failings after a worker was killed when a row of steel coils ‘collapsed like dominos’, in a case brought be the Health and Safety Executive. Alan Burr, a warehouseman and forklift truck driver, was fatally crushed when he tried to ...
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Dockers at Tilbury are to stage a second strike in their dispute with paper handler Enterprise Distribution Centre over the introduction of new 'follow the ship' contracts. It follows a 24-hour walk-out on 7-8 May - the first strike by dockers at Tilbury in Essex since 1989. The 45 employees of ...
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