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Arvato SCM Solutions has extended its contract with San Francisco-based Benefit Cosmetics and opened a new business-to-consumer distribution centre for the UK market at Hams Hall, near Birmingham. Arvato supplies services including logistics, international transport management, returns management, personalised greeting cards and gift-wrapping. Arvato’s distribution centre in Dortmund, Germany already serves the European market.
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The International Road Transport Union (IRU) has appointed Boris Blanche as managing director. He was previously chief operating officer at IRU. In the newly created position, Blanche will coordinate and strengthen IRU’s advocacy work, in addition to his current role leading operations, finance and the value-added services that IRU provides ...
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The Port of Milford Haven has allocated £650,000 to help turn Pembroke Dock into a centre for marine renewable energy research and development. The scheme will form part of Pembroke Dock Marine, the £76m Swansea Bay City Deal project which will see the Port of Milford Haven partner with Marine ...
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The United Arab Emirates said that the TIR system has been fully implemented and is ready to begin operations in Dubai, Abu Dhabi and Sharjah in the coming months, according to the International Road Transport Union. It said that further preparations for roll-out across all seven Emirates are proceeding, with plans ...
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Forth Ports' Port of Tilbury has applied for a development consent order for its proposed 152-acre Tilbury2 scheme on a former power station site.
Tilbury has doubled the size of its business in the past ten years and says it needs space to cope with a predicted doubling of volume across the ...
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On-demand warehouse startup Stowga says it has received £1.5m funding and has signed a strategic partnership with global real estate company CBRE. Stowga says it has built a network of over 4,000 warehouses in the UK.
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DHL Global Forwarding has signed an agreement with the GoodShipping Program, decarbonisation initiative to offer customers the opportunity to select marine biofuels rather than fossil fuels for their transport by sea. The biofuels used are produced sustainably and do not compete with food production for land use as well as ...
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The UK will continue to participate in the EU Customs Union and the Single Market, said the European Council, in its guidelines for the transition arrangements that will apply after Brexit in March 2019, which were published on 15 December.
The paper said that during the transition, the UK will have ...
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EU institutions provisionally agreed on new rules on 14 December to make cross-border parcel delivery tariffs more transparent and allow regulators to better monitor the market.
The provisional agreement by the European Parliament, the Council and the Commission needs to be finally approved by the Parliament and the Council and is ...
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Ireland is to start work on a Logistics Associate apprenticeship, Minister for Education and Skills Richard Bruton announced on 8 December.
It is being developed in partnership with the Irish International Freight Association and related industry associations and representative bodies. It follows a call by the Irish Government for National Apprenticeship ...
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