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DHL says that it expects to despatch its first consignments into space in two years’ time. If all goes as planned, the Peregrine Lunar Lander - the first private and commercial lunar mission - will make its way to the Moon, carrying not only scientific equipment but small honeycomb-shaped DHL MoonBoxes that give private individuals a way to send objects up to one-inch in diameter into space. Much like a ...
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DFDS is setting up a road service office in Vilnius to handle part and full loads to and from the UK. It will also offer an express service between Lithuania and Germany, Italy and other countries as well as full loads and special cargoes. Loads picked up in Lithuania on ...
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Eli Glickman took office as the new president and chief executive officer of ZIM on 1 July. He succeeds Rafi Danieli, who has been president and CEO since 2009.
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Delta Cargo has gained IATA’s Center of Excellence for Independent Validators (CEIV) Pharma logistics Certification - the first U.S. Global carrier to receive this accolade. The certification to its largest cargo operation in has also created the first CEIV Pharma trans-Atlantic network connecting Atlanta with other existing CEIV Pharma certified ...
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Freight forwarder Geodis’ Industrial Projects arm is managing out-of-gauge shipments from all over Europe for a major oil and gas project at the Lotos Refinery in Gdansk, Poland. Shipments of oversize columns for Kinetics Technology, part of the Maire Tecnimont Group include a 310-ton column which was transported by barge ...
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Keswick Enterprises’ Tibbett Logistics has opened its 15th warehouse in Romania with the signing of a new long-term lease with P3 for a 5 000sq m unit at the P3 Bucharest Park to the west of the city. Tibbett Logistics has leased warehousing in this logistics park since 2007, and ...
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China’s Cosco Shipping confirmed market talk on 9 July when it announced that it was buying a nine-tenths share of Hong Kong-based Orient Overseas International, parent company of OOCL, with Shanghai International Port Group (SIPG) taking the remaining 10%. The deal is subject to regulatory approval, but has been accepted ...
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Groupage operator Europa Worldwide Group says it wants to acquire more companies, According to the company, in the last two years it has been focused upon building daily services from Dartford to around 30 European hubs and now that that project is nearing completion, it is planning to start developing ...
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Aramex has signed a master franchise agreement with Ethiopia’s Logix Express, its 23rd African country. Aramex Ethiopia will open five more outlets in Addis Ababa by August 2017, increasing its total in the city to ten. Outside the capital, where the company currently operates in Dire Dawa and Hawassa it ...
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Turkey’s Ekol Logistics says it plans to invest over €2 million to improve facilities in the port of Lavrio and a further €1m to create its own national distribution fleet in the country. It is also planning to offer a rail connection to Europe via Lavrio, Thessaloniki and Aspropyrgos.
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