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Toyota is working on a more robust supply chain capable of recovering within two weeks of another disruption such as the earthquake that hit Japan in March. The earthquake and tsunami had a serious effect on the Japanese car industry from which production is only just beginning to recover. Executive vice president Shinichi Sasaki said that Toyota was standardising components with other Japanese manufacturers, asking downstream suppliers to hold more ...
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Chapman Freeborn's specialist On Board Courier (OBC) team has moved to a new headquarters near Cologne-Bonn airport. At the same time, Pasquale Bellarosa has joined as business development and sales manager. Additional teams have also been established in Beijing, Houston, Istanbul and Singapore and there are plans to further develop ...
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Freight forwarder Bellville Rodair International (BRI) has opened an office in Shenzhen, China, following similar moves in Moscow and Calgary earlier this year. BRI added that it expects to add two more locations within the next six months, following a 30% increase in turnover during the first quarter of the ...
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Father-and-son consultancy team RCR has been signed as the UK business partner for RAK Logistics to spearhead its expansion in the UK.
RCR was formed in 2009 by chief executive Mark Roderick with his father, Dr Edward Roderick, as chairman. Mark Roderick previously worked in senior roles at Sainsbury, Morrison, Alliance ...
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The freight forwarding industry is becoming more concentrated in the hands of larger players, according to a new study by Transport Intelligence. While the industry has historically been very fragmented with small firms based in one location competing with larger global concerns, larger players have been steadily gaining market share ...
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The Rail Freight Group (RFG) said the UK Government had “gone soft” on separation of railway operations from infrastructure management in European Law, a move which it sees as essential if UK operators are to expand their operations on the continent.
RFG said that the Government had, in a briefing paper ...
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One of the first fruits of Kuehne + Nagel's acquisition of UK-based trailer operator RH Freight is a new daily direct groupage line between its central hubs in Nottingham and Poznan in Poland. The new door-to-door service. Services operate door to door to destinations in Poland and are double-manned to ...
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Damco is offering its customers an online calculation of carbon dioxide emissions for all products shipped by ocean and air. Shipments can be measured in the Track and Trace function at MyDamco, including an overview of top 10 emissions by mode of transportation, origin and country of destination.
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Ports in the US North-East breathed a collective sigh of relief after Hurricane Irene passed through the region without inflicting any major damage or disruption to operations. Many ports had resumed or near-normal operations by about Tuesday 30 August or earlier, having shut down their operations over the weekend purely ...
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The assets of six ports could be freed as early as 1 September as part of a plan by the Council of the European Union to lift sanctions against Libya, according to a report by Europolitics. They would form part of a plan by the EU to unfreeze the assets ...
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