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DSV UK is investing in 50 new rigid 7.5 and 18.0 ton Volvo trucks to replace the existing fleet and increase total number of vehicles based in Purfleet by six to handle growing volumes of domestic business. All the vehicles are fitted with tail lifts and have the latest Euro 6 engines to comply with London’s emission zone regulations.
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Lufthansa’s time:matters arm has extended its Spare Parts Logistics service to include flights from Karlsruhe/Baden-Baden airport in southern German to Birmingham and Dublin on weekdays.
Time:matters has been serving the UK and from Frankfurt and Maastricht since 2011.
Urgently needed spare parts can be delivered from 8am the next day. The service ...
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Walker Logistics customer relations director, Charlie Walker, hopes to realise a dream to return an historic C-47 aircraft to Membury Airfield in Berkshire. Similar aircraft helped fly hundreds of US troops to the Normandy beaches on D-Day from Membury Airfield, which is today the site of Walker Logistics’ 200,000sq ft ...
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Mark Bromley (left) has succeeded Fred Osborn as the elected national chairman of BIFA – the British International Freight Association – for a two-year period.
He has been associated with BIFA for many years, working for BIFA member Allways International Freight Forwarding and was previously chairman of BIFA’s Surface Policy Group.
Fred ...
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The Port of Tyne has appointed Lucy Armstrong as its new chair. She is chief executive of The Alchemists, a North East-based business consultancy which works with high growth mid-corporate businesses to accelerate their development.
Armstrong joined The Alchemists in 2003 after a career in private equity, corporate development and headhunting ...
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The UK will try to spark its economy through trade with emerging markets if it is unable to preserve its current relationship with its European Union trading partners, predicts freight forwarder Agility in its Mid-Year Emerging Markets Review.
With the EU’s chief negotiator saying that frictionless trade is “not possible” following ...
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With Brexit negotiations getting under way this week, the International Road Transport Union (IRU) said it was essential that the UK Government and the European Union reach a comprehensive deal on road transport.
It said that key issues include customs facilitation tools such as TIR, customs procedures and duties, border crossing ...
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Qatar Airways Cargo is flying out a herd cows to help get its home country’s dairy industry off the ground.
The first two shipments of 230 Holsteins – available in any colour you like, as long as it’s black and white - have been moved from Europe on a Qatar Airways ...
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Insurers the TT Club is to continue its sponsorship of FIATA’s Young International Freight Forwarder of the Year Award (YIFFYA), now in its nineteenth year.
The competition provides opportunities for all candidates, of which there were 17 this year, to demonstrate and develop their knowledge of the industry.
The overall winner of the International ...
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Ferry operator DFDS has appointed Mark Henderson as its new regional sales manager for the North of England, Scotland and Ireland. Previously, he was an officer on board the company’s Newcastle-Amsterdam ship, King Seaways, where he was in charge of all entertainment, the casino, and on board bars.
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