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Freight services company Davies Turner has recruited another 12 A-level school leavers and graduates for this year’s trainee programme. A new departure for Davies Turner’s apprentice scheme, now in its eighth year, is that this year’s intake includes two IT net developers who will join its IT software development team.
All the youngsters will learn every aspect of Davies Turner’s business during the two-year apprenticeship, and like many of their predecessors, ...
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Volga-Dnepr Airlines has delivered the European Space Agency’s Sentinel-5P satellite from London Stansted to Archangelsk in northwest Russia on behalf of Airbus Defence and Space. The satellite will provide air quality and climate data for the entire planet every single day after its launch next month.
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Swissterminal is to resume operations at the Niederglatt container terminal, in the Niederhasli district close to Zurich from 1 November. From 2012, it has served the Zuricharea from the Rekingen terminal but the lease for this site is coming to an end. From November, Swissterminal will operate a feeder connection ...
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Freight forwarder Gefco is predicting a robust surge in demand in the run-up to Christmas, saying that air freight capacity from China to Europe and North America are already almost completely full.
It puts the boom down to the recovery of international trade, the “unprecedented” reorganisation of liner shipping services, the ...
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They may not look so scary in the photo, but these are some tough mudders. A 30-strong team from Forth Ports in Scotland have raised £25,000 for cancer support organisation Maggie’s Centre, taking part in the gruelling 12-mile of mud and obstacles Tough Mudder challenge in Dumfries & Galloway which ...
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CargoLogicAir has operated the first of two flights to hurriance-stricken islands in the Caribbean, carrying nearly 200 tonnes of humanitarian goods.
Both of the flights were operated by the British cargo airline’s Boeing 747-400F on behalf of the French Government. The first left Vatry for Pointe-à-Pitre Le Raizet airport, Guadalupe, on ...
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Sims Metal Management has opened a scrap metal handling facility at Peel Ports London Medway, through its sole UK trading subsidiary Sims Group UK. It allows Sims UK to expand UK deep-sea shipments of scrap metal to world markets and has a capacity of 300,000 tonnes a year.
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Intrepid Aviation has leased a new nose-loading Boeing 747-8 freighter (747-8F) to AirBridgeCargo Airlines (ABC), the scheduled arm of Volga-Dnepr Group. The leasing firm said ABC planned to become an all-B747-8 Freighter operator over the next few years.
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Fifty firefighters have dealt with a major acid tank leak at ABP Hull’s King George Dock, the BBC reports.
According to the report, Humberside Fire and Rescue Service said the tank contained 580 tonnes of hydrochloric acid.
The leak was on the east side of the dock, away from homes but people ...
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XPO Logistics Europe has appointed Malcolm Wilson as chief executive officer following the promotion of Richard Cawston to managing director–supply chain, Europe, the position previously held by Wilson. Troy Cooper, XPO’s had served as the company’s European chief executive since 2015, in addition to his position as global chief operating ...
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