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Palletforce’s new £50m SuperHub in Burton-upon-Trent was officially opened by the Princess Royal on 5 October It is part of a £65m investment by new owners EmergeVest since it acquired the network in 2015.
The Princess Royal was greeted by dignitaries including the Lord Lieutenant and High Sheriff of Staffordshire, before being introduced to Palletforce chief executive officer Michael Conroy and John Brotherton, chairman of the Palletforce Advisory Committee.
She then met ...
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Freight forwarders Davies Turner and Militzer & Münch France have joined forces to develop services between the UK and the major countries of the Maghreb region of North Africa.
The two companies have signed a partnership agreement to increase their business between the UK and Morocco, Tunisia and Algeria.
M&M France is ...
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Hamburg-based Garbe Industrial Real Estate has acquired a portfolio of 16 cold chain logistics halls across Germany for a private investor from the Doblinger Group. The premises, previously long-term rental properties, are worth over €240 million.
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Turkish logistics company Ekol has opened a ro ro terminal at Yalova, south-east of Istanbul, with the first sailing operated by Alternative Transport's Qezban to Trieste, Italy on 4 October.
The 80,000sq m facility has space for 500 trailers two ro ro ramps, X-ray facilities, customs office, driver areas and a ...
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Esprit Warehousing and Docks Trafford Park terminal in Manchester has handled another large shipments via the Manchester Ship Canal.
Following the import on 19-20 September of four large silos from Europe, last week a 130 tonne transformer arrive from South Korea en route to Stalybridge.
The transformer traveled 15,400 miles by sea, ...
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Militzer & Münch has set up an affiliate in the Algerian capital, Algiers. It joins Militzer & Münch organizations in Morocco and Tunisia.
The forwarder offers a range of services in the Maghreb region of North Africa including weekly dangerous goods groupage services, packaging and quality control, labelling, order picking and ...
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EcoVadis has awarded GEODIS a score of 68/100 - among the best in its overall rankings - for its Corporate Social Responsibility program. EcoVadis assesses companies on environmental, social, ethical and supply chain issues. The assessment is based on 21 criteria the environment, social issues, ethics/fair business practices and supply ...
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Espace Europe says it has become the first UK freight forwarding firm to become an employee-owned company.
The Lichfield-based company transferred ownership of its business to its employees on 29 September, with all current employees qualifying as beneficiaries of an employee ownership trust and its annual distributable profits.
Espace managing director, Tony ...
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Virgin Atlantic Cargo and Delta Cargo have opened a new Pharma Zone at their joint facility at London Heathrow. Located at the Cargo Point facility, it is a fully segregated area dedicated to handling and storing pharmaceutical shipments within a strictly regulated temperature environment with dedicated active container storage.
Delta Cargo ...
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TT Club and the UK P&I Club have joined forces with Exis Technologies to further develop the Hazcheck Restrictions Portal. The portal allows participating lines to check for dangerous goods compliance with partner lines and accept provisional bookings. The portal started as an initiative with several major container lines that ...
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