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Flubit.com, the largest UK-owned digital marketplace, has chosen Xpediator’s EshopWedrop e-commerce delivery solution to manage its customers’ cross border deliveries to nine countries. EshopWedrop is a B2C offering that overlays existing B2B groupage service lines run by Xpediator’s freight forwarding division, Delamode. Since its takeover in July 2018 by blockchain technology group, MonetaryUnit, Flubit.com has sought to expand beyond the UK into new markets. EshopWedrop will begin by providing international ...
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Middle East headquartered forwarder Agility is to invest $100 million over three years to launch its Shipa.com digital logistics platform.
Shipa Ecommerce offers integrated freight, fulfilment, delivery and returns solutions across the Arabian Gulf with additional reach into the EU and Africa planned for the near future, and is available in ...
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Insurer Thomas Miller (Americas) charity initiative has come close to raising half a million dollars for the Breast Cancer Research Foundation over the last three years, thanks to the ‘Play for Pink’ Golf Day held last month. A total of 112 players representing companies from the maritime and insurance ...
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DHL-sponsored yachtswoman Susie Goodall has been rescued Hong Kong-registered general cargo ship Tian Fu after her boat came to grief 2,000 miles west of Cape Horn during the Golden Globe Race. The DHL Starlight lost her mast after capsizing during violent storms during the non-stop solo round-the-world race. The cargo ...
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SH Pratt Group has opened a bespoke temperature controlled warehouse at DP World London Gateway’s Logistics Park. It says it will reduce food miles and increase freshness in perishable and chilled supply chains. The company took occupation of the 108,555sq ft facility in June for a three-month fitting out period. ...
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European forwarders’ representative group Clecat says it is disappointed at the European Council’s recent compromise agreement on posting of workers.
It says that the agreement, if implement, would in “no way respond to the need for simple, uniform, clear and easily enforceable rules which would facilitate transport operations, protect the ...
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Current FedEx Express executive vice president, chief marketing and communications officer Raj Subramaniam, is to take over as president and chief executive officer from David Cunningham, who is due to retire on 1 January. Subramaniam has been with FedEx for more than 27 years and has held various executive level ...
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The Rhenus Group has acquired freight forwarding company, SBL Importverkehrslogistik, based at Ratingen-based near Dusseldorf. As well as import and export logistics services it offers solutions for the steel sector, along with project and heavy transport business.
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Freight forwarder Rhenus reports that the ‘Gilet Jaunes’ fuel protests in France were beginning to affect operations in neighbouring countries. While the situation is most severe in the Paris and south of France, it has received news that pockets of disruption have reached the Netherlands and that there have been ...
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DSV is to open a new 200,000sq ft (18,500sq m) warehouse in Memphis, Tennessee in January 2019. It has had an office in Memphis for a number of years. Both facilities are close to the city’s international airport.
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