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Cosco, “K” Line, Yang Ming, Hanjin and Evergreen have published further details of the new joint service announced in December last year. The lines will sign individual cooperative arrangements on the Asia-Europe trades from April 2012 with eight weekly services between North Europe and Asia and four between the Mediterranean and Asia.
Highlights include transit times from Asia to major European ports of as little as 26-27 days from Shanghai/Ningbo and ...
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Freight Systems Express Wales (FSEW), has appointed Anton Woodhouse as its new chairman. He led a management buy-out of retailer Peacocks in 1997 and, after opening a new distribution centre, expanding the company to 320 stores and floating on the stock market ...
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No, there hasn't been a mass outbreak of freemasonry in Yorkshire. Potter Group Logistics chairman Derrick Potter and directors Matthew Lamb, Stuart Taylor, Jim Thomson and Ken Watson have set their sights on completing the Yorkshire Three Peaks Challenge on Saturday, 31 March, to raise money for Help for Heroes.
The ...
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INTTRA has signed an alliance with secure online electronic invoice network, Tradeshift.
The partners say it will allow enable ocean carriers and their customers to manage ocean freight invoices, disputes and payments on a common platform with a single connection. They add that benefits include automated matching of carrier invoices to ...
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All-cargo carrier AirBridgeCargo Airlines has launched a new route from Hannover Airport to Beijing via Moscow. The new weekly Boeing 747-400 freighter service will primarily transport engineering and automotive parts from the industrial region in North Germany to the Far East with Kühne + Nagel as the main customer.
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NYK’s Southampton transport team have saved around 100 tonnes of CO2 every month in the last year thanks to a 100,000km reduction in truck miles. The line has worked with hauliers to increase the number of container reloads through triangulation of journeys: using the same truck to take import containers ...
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Alistair Arthur, group managing director of Paisley-based logistics firm TPC Global is swapping Scotland's chilly climate for the warmth of the Middle East to develop the company’s business in there. He will oversee the continuing growth of logistics partnership ...
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The Unite trade union has strongly criticised government plans to scrap the Docks Regulations that govern health and safety in ports in favour of self-regulation, as part of its 'Red Tape Challenge. It adds that since it downgraded health and safety in docks to ‘low risk’ in October last year, ...
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At the bail hearing started last Tuesday, of UK freight forwarder Christopher Tappin, US prosecutors alleged that was heavily involved in trading with Iran. According to the Mail Online, A senior investigator for the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement service told a Texas court that the retired director of Orpington-based Brooklands Freight ...
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UPS is reported to be nearing agreement to buy TNT Express NV following the rejection of the US giant's initial €4.9 billion euro offer was rejected, according to Bloomberg. The news agency reported that the sides are now close to a deal on the price, but on conditions that may lead to ...
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