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Rhenus Project Logistics is organising the first groupage seafreight service for temperature-controlled goods from Europe to the UAE from the beginning of August 2018. One or two containers every month will connect Switzerland, Germany, Austria and Benelux to Dubai and is primarily designed for temperature esensitive foods like chocolate, bakery products or cheese. Temperature can be set between +25 and -25°C. Reefers will initially be stuffed centrally at a refrigerated ...
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Investment firm Cerberus Capital Management is to acquire Worldwide Flight Services from Platinum Equity. Paris-headquartered WFS is the world’s largest air cargo handler with a presence in 198 airports in 22 countries.
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The UK Major Ports Group (UKMPG) has launched a ‘Dragons Den’-style competition to find the smartest ideas about how digitisation can transform services, what Government and business can do to make this happen and then connecting the originators of the best ideas with the chief executives of the UK’s major ...
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Temperature controlled packaging specialist Peli BioThermal has released a white paper on market solutions for protecting temperature-sensitive pharmaceuticals while in transit. Titled Active Shipping Containers vs Passive Shipping Containers, it provides guidance on making the optimum choice to eliminate confusion, reduce risk and save money evaluating the two main classes ...
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DFDS has ordered an additional freight ferry for delivery in the first half of 2020 from the Chinese Jinling Shipyard. It is similar to the four previously ordered vessels with a 6,700 lane metres capacity or about 450 trailers. DFDS’ fleet renewal programme also includes two ro-pax ferries to be ...
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Asian-based supply chain specialist Tigers has relocated to a new two-warehouse facility in Shanghai, China to overcome space restraints in its previous operation and meet growing customer demand. The new facility, which is located close to Shanghai Yangshan Port, will allow Tigers to offer scalable solutions and has 34% more ...
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Freight forwarder Kuehne + Nagel has agreed a 15-year lease on almost 200,000sq ft of space on 17.6 acres of land at the Segro Logistics Park East Midlands Gateway. Estimated date of completion is March 2019.
KN will relocate its Lenton Lane and Riverside operations to the new site and will ...
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Singapore Airlines has renewed its cargo handling contracts with Worldwide Flight Services (WFS) in London and Paris. At Heathrow, WFS handles cargo on Singapore Airlines’ double daily A380-800 services and its twice-daily 777-300 operations to Singapore. This is in addition to twice-weekly Boeing 747-400 freighter services, which depart Heathrow every ...
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Steve Tumber, Operations Manager at Fulham-based forwarder FSC Oceans has completed the 26-mile Thames Path Mighty Hike to raise funds for MacMillan Cancer Support
He joined hundreds of people from all walks of life in completing the course from Windsor to Henley, along the banks of the Thames.
He added: “I didn’t ...
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PD Ports’ director portcentric logistics Jim French has been awarded an MBE in the Queen’s Birthday Honours List for services to young people in the transport industry. Now semi-retired, for the last four years he has dedicated his time at PD Ports to the launch and continued successful operation of the ...
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