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WFS starts work on Copenhagen pharma facility

Handling company WFS is to start building a new pharma facility at Copenhagen Airport in April. The new building will cover an area of 1,500 sq mts and will provide end-to-end handling in a temperature-controlled environment for 2-8°C pharma. It expects the construction process to be completed in time for the new building to undergo IATA CEIV Pharma pre-assessment in July. WFS is also upgrading the existing temperature control areas ... [+]

Rhenus gets Schiphol CEIV cert

Rhenus Air & Ocean has gained CEIV Pharma certification for its Amsterdam Airport Schiphol branch. It sets quality standards for the life sciences and healthcare sector through uniform processes and a compliant supply chain for pharmaceutical products. [+]

Schmidt takes on Ceva LCL

CEVA Logistics has appointed Claus Svane Schmidt as head of its less than container load (LCL) product. He was previously managing director of the company's North Asia cluster. CEVA has identified LCL as a key product for development in the coming months. [+]

JWT takes more space in Liverpool

Haulage firm JWT Commercial has expanded its footprint at the Port of Liverpool, investing in over five acres of land. It will allowing it to handle larger volumes of goods for distribution to stores across the UK. It has also invested £500,000 in an automated system in Liverpool that will ... [+]

Slow progress for CDS

Implementation of HMRC’s CDS - the replacement for the Chief computer system – is unlikely in the foreseeable future, suggests Gordon Tutt, chairman of the Association of Freight Software Suppliers. While AFSS is still actively engaged with the CDS team for development and testing and there has been a significant improvement ... [+]

Thames Enterprise Park secures funding – updated

Thames Enterprise Park, unveiled last October has announced a further £8.5m of investment to transform the former Coryton Oil Refinery site into a logistics hub. The investment will fund land preparation work on 44 hectares of the 168 hectare site by specialist remediation contractors DSM Demolition. It will be focused ... [+]

Peers joins the Club

TT Club has appointed Andrew Peers as senior underwriter for its UK, Benelux and Nordic team. He joins the Club from RSA, where he spent 17 years and led a team of 12 marine liability and marine property insurance underwriters. [+]

Eurotunnel to sue govt over ferries contracts

Eurotunnel says that it will sue the UK government over the “secretive” procurement process for the extra ferry capacity. A four-day trial is due to begin on 1 March and follows a High Court hearing at the end of last year when Eurotunnel claimed that the contracts to Seaborne, Britanny ... [+]

CMA CGM makes ‘friendly’ bid for Ceva

CMA CGM has made a public tender offer of CHF (Swiss france) 30 per share, in logistics and forwarding company Ceva of saying that the Ceva board “is fully aligned with this friendly offer”. The shipping line’s chairman and chief executive Rodolphe Saadé, said the move would allow CMA CGM to ... [+]

Skills and recruitment to the fore at Multimodal

Workshops and panel discussions at the Multimodal show on 18-20 June will feature the challenge of attracting, retaining, and developing the next generation of industry professionals in the face of a growing skills shortage. Day three of the free-to-attend show at the Birmingham NEC will be dedicated to seminars exploring ... [+]

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