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P&O Ferries reported a 14% year on year increase in freight volumes at its two continental rail hubs, Zeebrugge and Europoort, in the first half of 2017. Between January and June the ferry and logistics company handled 42,421 units across the North Sea to the east coast of Britain. Zeebrugge accounted for 30,154 units with Europoort making up 12,087.
The news follows P&O Ferries' announcement earlier this month that it had ...
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AXA Investment Managers’ Baytree Logistics Properties arm has entered the German market with an up to 30,000sq m build-to-suit development in Hannover.
Located in the industrial Brink-Hafen area of the city, Baytree says the site is close to major road, rail and river routes, 10 minutes from the city centre or ...
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PD Ports achieved Silver status at the RoSPA Health and Safety Awards in Birmingham on 13 July.
The Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents made the award to the North-East firm for its commitment to continued improvement in health, safety procedures and exceptional health and safety standards, ensuring the wellbeing ...
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Freight Transport Association Ireland (FTAI) has called for a solution for Ireland – including the critical border issue – to be given top priority.
Production processes and supply chains on both sides of the Ireland/Northern Ireland border are highly integrated, with many businesses operating on an island of Ireland basis and ...
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Espace has launched an Express PLUS 1 service, a heavily discounted semi-express service by co-loading two express shipments on the same van. The Express PLUS 1 service takes an extra day to deliver the shipm,ent and compliments Espaces’ dedicated ‘Freight Emergency Service’. EXPRESS Plus offers a Money Back Guarantee.
Espace says ...
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Kuehne + Nagel has expanded its perishables logistics activities by acquiring US-based airfreight specialist CFI, Commodity Forwarders and Trillvane one of the largest perishables operators in Kenya, both for undisclosed suims.
The Swiss-based forwarder said the purchases would add more than 150,000 tons of perishables traffic a year.
CFI operates 14 locations ...
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FedEx revealed further information on the cyber attack that hit its newly acquired TNT subsidiary in June in its annual Form 10-K report for fiscal year 2017 with the US Securities and Exchange Commission. It said that the worldwide operations of TNT were significantly affected by Petya virus which was ...
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Forwarding software specialist Agency Sector Management (ASM has launched a major upgrade of its Sequoia software including a complete freight management system, from job and shipment management and documentation through to Customs declarations, job costing, and invoicing.
ASM says it will avoid the need for data to be rekeyed and therefore ...
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Stena Line’s parent company is to acquire the Superfast VII and Superfast VIII ferries which operate on its Cairnryan – Belfast route from December. The ships currently operate under a charter contract agreement with AS Tallink Grupp. Stena's development plan also involves the construction of new vessels which will be ...
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Antonov Airlines has appointed Flywell Aviation as its general sales agent (GSA) in India. The New Delhi-headquartered company also has offices in Mumbai and Bangalore, and provides services to the defence, aerospace, oil and gas, rail and construction.
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