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DHL Global Forwarding has launched a global marine spare parts logistics 'control tower' in Singapore, the second busiest port in the world. DHL plans to invest US$15 million over the next five years to enhance its services to the sector, including multi-modal transport solutions ranging from pick up at supplier warehouse to on board delivery and reverse logistics for parts return.
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The world's very first B747-8F scheduled commercial flight operated from Luxembourg to Hong Kong, with the arrival of Cargolux flight number CV8923 on 16 October 2011. The 134-tonne capacity aircraft flew from its home base to Hong Kong and then on to Baku, Budapest and Luxembourg. Cargolux, the launch customer ...
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US-based NVOCC Ocean World Lines (OWL) has opened an office in Houston. In addition to containerized and breakbulk freight, OWL Houston will handle project and out-of-gauge cargoes too large for standard containers as well as logistics solutions for the petro-chemical industry. Heading the Houston team as regional branch manager is ...
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A lack of hub airport capacity could cost the economy up to £1.2bn a year in lost trade and must be tackled if the UK is to maintain its global competitiveness, said the CBI in its response to a Government consultation on 20 October.
In its contribution to Developing a sustainable ...
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Lufthansa Cargo has revealed details of the interim schedule it will put in place following the surprise decision of the Hesse regional court to ban night flights at Frankfurt airport from the end of October, ahead of a final ruling by the Federal Administrative Court. The ban would apply to ...
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American Airlines Cargo division celebrated 20 years of flying directly between London Heathrow and the US with a reception for more than 100 of its key cargo customers. VP Cargo, Joe Reedy flew in to mark the event.
Back in 1991 AA Cargo was based from an off-airport location and had ...
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German project cargoes and heavy lift liner operator Rickmers-Linie is to make regular monthly calls at Bilbao in Northern Spain. It is anticipated that the port will be included in its Europe – Middle East/India service although Rickmers’ eastbound Round-the-World Pearl String service will continue to call by inducement.
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The Port of Felixstowe recently handled a consignment of swap bodies that will be used for Tesco's domestic rail business. The brand-new Asian-built units for Stobart had were loaded onto a Direct Rail Services for transport to Daventry. More units are anticipated over the next few weeks.
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Better links between UK ports and other parts of Europe could be among the projects funded by €50 billion (about £44 billion) worth of investment from 2014 to improve Europe's transport, energy and digital networks announced by European Commission President José Manuel Barroso on 19 October.
The Connecting Europe Facility aims ...
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Air France-KLM chief executive Pierre-Henri Gourgeon resigned on 17 October. Current chairman Jean-Cyril Spinetta will take over the role he relinquished to Gourgeon in 2009, while former KLM president and CEO Leo Van Wijk becomes group deputy CEO. The joint French-Dutch carrier is facing mounting losses and is grappling with ...
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