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Hapag Lloyd has launched an online quotation tool. Quick Quotes generates quotations for container shipments in seconds with detailed pricing. Users log on to the line’s website, choose the start location and end location as well as a commodity and container type. Customers will receive a binding quotation within seconds, and can then make their bookings right away via the Hapag-Lloyd online business platform. As of September, Quick Quotes and ...
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Lufthansa and Brussels Airlines are to jointly market their cargo capacity from 1 September and space is now bookable with the German carrier. The move will give Lufthansa Cargo customers access to the Belgian carrier’s bellyhold network, in particular its 15 destinations West, East and Central Africa, via Brussels.
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India formally implemented the TIR customs guarantee system on 15 August, the country’s Independence Day, the IRU reports. The move is expected to make cargo movements easier and more efficient, including the International North-South Transport Corridor (INSTC) via Iran. The INSTC provides global access to markets, connecting India to the wider ...
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Peel Ports London Medway has completed a £5.4m investment programme into its grain facilities at the Port of Sheerness. It includes the refurbishment of warehousing to TASCC standards and installation of a elevator/conveyor, together with new Liebherr LHM 280 craneage.
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Temperature controlled packaging specialist Peli BioThermal has opened a network station at Frankfurt Airport. It will also serve as an additional depot for the company’s Crēdo on Demand reusable packaging rental program.
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Seaborne Freight plans to start services between Ramsgate and Ostend by the end of the year, the Isle of Thanet News reports. The website also cites Belgian press reports in which Ostend mayor Johan Vande Lanotte says financing of the project is complete. The service would cater for accompanied freight ...
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Handler Worldwide Flight Services has signed a memorandum of understanding with Sjømatterminalen to operate the Seafood Center at Oslo Airport. It will handle up to 250,000 tons a year and meet industry requirements for cool chain logistics. Construction of the terminal is expected to start in April 2019, with opening ...
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Dara O'Briain, the face of Mock the Week, Star Gazing Live, Robot Wars and many other TV shows will add another accolade to his portfolio in December when he hosts the 2018 FTA Logistics Awards at London's Royal Lancaster Hotel.
The awards, on 13 December and now in their second year, ...
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WACO System member for Sri Lanka, Ace Cargo, has launched a packaging, removals, and relocations division for air and sea freight. The division will be headed by Chandana Jirasinha and based in the capital, Colombo. It will include services such as personal effects storage, warehousing of project cargo and commercial ...
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Shipping minister Nusrat Ghani officially opened Portsmouth International Port's new £9m linkspan on 9 August. It is the first step in a £20m investment programme at the second-largest cross-channel port and received over £500,000 in EU funding, with the rest of the £9m provided by Portsmouth City Council which owns ...
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