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Netherlands-based Broekman Logistics has set up a dedicated global air charter desk, managed by industry veteran Ton Smulders. It will offer solutions to time and capacity driven client requests and guarantees the swiftest response time to any request for solutions.
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Warrenpoint Port in Northern Ireland has ordered a Konecranes Gottwald Model 3 mobile harbour crane, due to be delivered in September 2018.
The port handled a record 3.56 million tonnes of cargo in 2017 including grain, timber, steel, cement, ro ro and containers. In its 25-year growth plan it forecasts a ...
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MPs voted 415 to 119 in favour of a third runway at London Heathrow airport on the evening of 25 June, possibly bringing down the curtain on a controversy that has lasted over 20 years.
Conservative MPs were forced to support the government plan although Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson, who as ...
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Kuehne + Nagel has opened its first regional Logistics Control Centre in South & Central America, in Bogotá, Colombia. It will provide customers with tailored solutions, focusing on cost efficiency, reducing complexity and increasing supply chain performance.
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One of the two new E-Flexer RoPax ferries bound for the Belfast – Liverpool route in 2020 held its official keel-laying at the AVIC shipyard in Weihai, China. The new vessels will have a capacity of 3 100 freight lane metres, along with 1 000 passengers and 120 cars.
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X2 Logistics Networks has launched X2 Asia Global, a logistics network designed to provide forwarders there international partners and freight forwarders outside the region. It will be headed by Shane Hebzynski
www.x2asiaglobal.com.
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Jacques Saade, founding president of the CMA CGM shipping group, has died at the age of 81. After having left Lebanon to protect his family during the civil war, he founded the Compagnie Maritime d’Affretement (CMA) in 1978 with four employees, a single ship and a single service between Marseilles ...
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The Campaign for Better Transport has welcomed granting of planning permission at Redbridge, Southampton, for freight sidings to allow longer freight trains to and from the port.
It says that it would boost capacity on the existing 20 daily freight trains by 45% as part of a wider scheme to ...
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Shipping lines and freight forwarders are reporting continued disruption at the Port of Felixstowe after teething problems hit a new terminal operating system.
MSC said it was carrying out a diversion plan to minimise the impact on customers, while Cosco said it was divert vessels and cancelling calls in the Suffolk ...
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DB Schenker has started building its second logistics centre in Dubai at the city’s South Logistics District, next to Maktoum International Airport and adjacent to Jebel Ali Port. The 35,000sq m temperature-controlled is the largest investment in the history of DB Schenker Middle East & Africa. It will also be ...
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