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Qatar Airways said its global network more than triple in size by mid-October. Its programme includes increased frequencies from its Doha hub to Manchester to 17 a week from 2 October, along with the resumption of services to Amman, Entebbe, Hanoi, Seychelles, Windhoek and Yerevan and the launch of new 787 Dreamliner flights to Accra Ghana via Lagos from 29 September. It added that its network never fell below 30 ...
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Container groupage operator Globelink Fallow is warning that operational problems at the port of Felixstowe had reached crisis point.
The port had already been affected by the Covid crisis as the need to deep clean equipment after shift restricted capacity and lengthened turnaround times. Now, however, the port appears to have ...
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Tesco has launched a new £5m investment programme to move more freight by rail, particularly between the Midlands and North-east England, reports the BusinessGreen website. The investment includes 500 new rail boxes and two new stacking recently unveiled at Tesco's Daventry site. The increased rail service could replace 40 truckloads ...
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Heavylift operator AAL Shipping is to be included in the latest series of the Discovery Channel’s ‘Mega Shippers’ programme. The show tracks a small number of impressive operations worldwide. The two episodes follow AAL’s shipment in early 2020 of six giant Rubber Tyred Gantry cranes (RTGs) from Shanghai, China, to ...
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Pan-European logistics specialist Verdion has appointed Oliver Kemper as senior investment manager. Based in Frankfurt, he will identify, negotiate and execute acquisitions and disposals for Verdion European Logistics Fund 1, focussing on urban logistics assets in edge-of-town or infill locations in strategic locations in Northern Europe.
He joins from KanAm ...
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A new weekly container rail shuttle service has been introduced between the port of Gothenburg and Oslo. It is operated by Norwegian rail operator Cargonet and will initially run once a week in each direction.
Port of Gothenburg vice president, Claes Sundmark: said: “Somewhat boastfully we usually say that we are ...
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The Port of Cork Company has appointed Eoin McGettigan as chief executive, replacing Brendan Keating who has retired after 18 years. He takes up the position on 1 October 2020 for a term of five years.
McGettigan has spent the last decade providing strategic advice to a wide variety of companies ...
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Former Transport Secretary and current Conservative MP for Epsom and Ewell Chris Grayling has been appointed by Hutchison Ports as a part-time advisor, reports the BBC. He will be paid around £100,000 a year for a seven-hour week, it says. Under Whitehall rules, he will be limited to advising the ...
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Teesside logisitics business AV Dawson has named its port facility Port of Middlesbrough – reviving a name from over 100 years ago
AV Dawson has amalgamated several parts of its Middlesbrough-based port and logistics operations to form one, integrated facility.
The new name honours a port that was on the same stretch ...
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International Air Transport Association (IATA) head of cargo Glyn Hughes is to leave his job in January next year as part of a restructuring programme, after 30 years at the Geneva-based organisation. No announcement has yet been made about any successor.
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