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Rhenus has appointed Harry Wheelhouse as European sector manager. He joined the commercial team at Rhenus Warehousing Solutions in March after a 10-year career in the logistics industry with Royal Mail Group and then with third-party logistics companies, developing e-commerce fulfilment solutions and online services.
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Logistics UK is pressing the Department for Transport to take urgent action to tackle the nationwide shortage of parking spaces for truck drivers, following publication of a Transport Focus report. It found that 56% of respondents rate the availability of spaces for lorries as fairly poor or very poor, reconfirming “a desperate ...
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Nottingham-based Baxter Freight has made seven internal promotions to facilitate a recruitment drive to increase employee numbers by almost a third to over 100.
It has appointed Lorraine Sutcliffe as director, head of HR to spearhead expansion plans including an organisational restructure.
The sales department grows with three internal promotions: Rebecca Boulter ...
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SEKO Logistics, eCommerce solution provider, Shopify Plus, and integration platform, Patchworks have joined forces in a new ‘Go Global’ webinar to help retailers merchants learn about the mass exodus to online shopping triggered by Covid-19 and gain a share of the $4.2 trillion Global ecommerce market.
As Global lockdowns forced traditional ...
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Samskip has added a call in Waterford and introduced a larger and faster ship to its recently launched weekly container service between Dublin and Amsterdam - less than five months after the debut of Amsterdam as a service separate from Samskip’s Rotterdam-Ireland links.
Head of Ireland trade, Thijs Goumans, said Samskip ...
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Worldwide Flight Services (WFS) has opened its new cargo handling centre at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airportafter winning the tender for a 20-year lease to operate the new 100,000sq ft Cargo Building C.
The new building combines full cargo and freighter handling capabilities and provides 11 dock doors, drive-up ramp access and ...
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Stena Line has launched its first new extended E-Flexer vessel in Weihai, China.She is the fourth out of five new next generation E-Flexer vessels that are are designed and built in collaboration with the sister company Stena RoRo at the CMI Jinling Weihai Shipyard in China, the first three if ...
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U-Freight Logistics has completed work on turning of its five Hong Kong hubs into a smart warehouse.
The company’s 21,000sq ft eCommerce fulfilment centre in Kwai Chung has been equipped with automatic guided vehicles and an intelligent racking system, and associated operating software supplied by RV Automation Technology Company.
The system analyses ...
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Rolling cargo line Wallenius Wilhelmsen, says it is increasing frequency and adding destinations to and from Gothenburg, Sweden in response to increased demand from the market for vehicles, breakbulk and project loads.
After a challenging year with Covid-19 it says that there is “a glimmer of light at the end of ...
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The three ports currently operating under the Haropa banner - - Le Havre, Rouen and Paris – are to formally merge on 1 June. Haropa chief executive Stéphane Raison said that while the Haropa ports had had “an association” since 2012, this was “simply a first step in a merger”, ...
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