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Freight and logistics recruitment specialists First Choice Staff is expanding its offering to airport services, cargo and ground handling companies following the appointment of Colin Blusch as aviation business development manager. Blusch (pictured left, with First Choice director Chas Dowton) previously held senior management roles with Plane Handling/dnata and Worldwide Flight Services (WFS). He will be based at First Choice Staff’s head office close to Heathrow Airport.
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Swiss-based Aviation and logistics consultants Change Horizon and UK freight industry public relations company Meantime Communications have joined forces to promote gender equality in airfreight.
They are calling on businesses, trade associations and individual professionals to sign the Women in Aviation and Logistics Pledge to promote gender equality in the airfreight ...
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Port users’ association chair, Gary Dawson, has welcomed the granting of freeport status to Tees and Hartlepool. Dawson, who is managing director of logistics operator Tees and Hartlepool (now being rebranded Port of Middlesbrough) said: “This is a defining moment for Teesside, the government has unlocked a major opportunity and ...
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Rail fares in the UK may be about to go up again, but a softening of the market following Chinese New Year has enabled Davies Turner to reduce rates for its Express China rail freight service, the only direct weekly fixed-day intermodal service to the UK.Also, with new rail services ...
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Stena Line says it has increased the number of female managers it employs by 42% in only five years and has set itself the target of ensuring they account for 30% of all management by the end of next year.
In an industry where only 2% of the 1.2 million seafarers ...
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CLdN to increase its new Zeebrugge/Dublin ro ro service to three sailings per week to cope with rising demand and is also adding a new Friday sailing to the Zeebrugge/Killingholme route, bringing the total to seven sailings per week. It will also introduce an extra weekend sailing on Sunday on ...
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Peel Group’s regeneration arm Peel L&P has appointed Neal Biddle as development director to take forward its GatewayEast development near Doncaster Sheffield Airport. GatewayEast offers 11 million sq. ft of residential and commercial space in distinct zones including cargo, logistics, and advanced manufacturing, along with retail, leisure and residential properties.
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United Seaways is to launch a ‘Brexit buster’ route direct from Tangier, Morocco to Poole.
The operator says that the new line, which has been in planning for over two years will help bypass post-Brexit congestion and additional import procedures compared with transiting via Europe and will also significantly reduce emissions.
The ...
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The first container to be moved by Maersk by rail from Japan to the UK has arrived in Felixstowe. The 40’ box on 2 March from Yokohama travelled by sea and then on the logistics operator’s AE19 service between the ports of Vostochniy and St. Petersburg. Transit shipments from Japan ...
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DFDS will introduce a fourth freight ferry to its service between Rosslare and Dunkerque in Northern France. The Ark Dania has a capacity of 188 trucks including 12 driver accompanied units and 176 unaccompanied. It will also free up capacity on the three other ferries for more driver accompanied traffic. ...
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