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Charter firm Air Partner says its freight gross profit was up 36.4% for the six months ended 31 July 2018, following on from a record 2017. As well as business from the oil and gas and charity sector, demand from automotive and aerospace remains strong, both for charter and on board courier. During 2018 Air Partner appointed a a new freight charter sales broker and sales manager, moved its Cologne ...
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ABP South Wales has invested £400,000 to increase open storage at its Port of Cardiff.
The investment will increase the amount of space by 13,000sq ft by redeveloping and resurfacing of a quayside area on North Side, Queen Alexandra Dock.
The transit storage area will be used to accommodate growing volumes of ...
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French Railways’ VIIA arm has added a second rail motorway service into Calais, from Turin. The new route, which runs twice a day from the Italian city’s Orbassano terminal, complements the existing twice-daily route from Le Boulou on the French-Spanish border, to Calais, inaugurated in March 2016. Transit time is ...
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Sanjeev Gupta, owner of up of energy, mining, engineering and logistics conglomerate GFG Alliance, has unveiled a £5m investment to revitalize Bird Port on the river Usk at Newport. It follows the announcement last July that the SIMEC Infrastructure arm of GFG had agreed to buy the facility along with ...
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Europa Air & Sea has appointed Jasraj Singh, Tom Macdonald and Rebecca Couper as business development managers. in Heathrow, Nottingham and Manchester respectively. It is also on the lookout to recruit more staff to further strengthen the UK sales arm of the business with the aim of embedding at least ...
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CargoLogicAir (CLA) says that two recent Boeing 747 freighter flights delivering racehorses from the US to the UK and Ireland have demonstrated its expertise in moving live animals.
The flights at the end of October from Atlanta to Stansted and from Chicago to Shannon in the Republic of Ireland followed CargoLogicAir ...
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Jet Airways has launched its new service between Manchester to Mumbai. Although announced in May as a four-times-a-week service, the airline increased its frequency to five-times-a-week before the start. It is operated by an A330-200 aircraft.
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The trucking industry is optimistic about a new high tech future, and the majority believe that autonomous trucks will be a viable option in the next ten years, according to a survey of 450 firms by the International Road Transport Union (IRU) published on 5 November.
However, transport companies worry about ...
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Geodis has appointed Antje Lochmann as its new managing director of Geodis Freight Forwarding Germany, based in Hamburg. She joined Geodis in 2011 and has held several positions where she was responsible for sales, marketing, key accounts, tender management, and sales controlling and was most recently director national sales and ...
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Stena Line is once again urging its customers to round-up their onboard purchases to the nearest whole pound to raise money for Mercy Ships. The charity sails its vessels around the world bringing free, life-saving medical care to where it’s needed the most.
Stena Line has also launched their own volunteer program. So far two Stena Line employees ...
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