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The FedEx Express-Orbis Flying Eye Hospital is visiting Stansted Airport from 11-17 March. The third-generation Flying Eye Hospital is the world’s only mobile ophthalmic teaching hospital on board an MD-10 aircraft donated by FedEx in 2011. The aircraft has been custom designed to create an advanced medical training and technology facility to further the skills of eye care teams across Africa, Asia and Latin America. A virtual reality tour of ...
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Hutchison Ports, the Hong Kong-based owner and operator of the Port of Felixstowe has signed a agreement with Ports of Stockholm to operate the container terminal under construction at the city’s Norvik Port. The new port, which is near Nynäshamn 60km south of the Swedish capital, will have better access, ...
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DP World’s London Gateway port is to handle its first direct Asia/Europe services from April when the newly formed The Alliance consortium starts operations at the Thameside terminal.
Announcing its service plans, the grouping – which consists of Hapag Lloyd, K-Line, MOL, NYK Line and Yang Ming – said its FE3 and ...
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India’s Cabinet has approved the country’s accession to the TIR Convention. It follows the recent Motor Vehicles Agreement to improve cross-border transport between Bangladesh, Bhutan, India and Nepal.
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BIFA has called on the Chancellor to do more for the freight and logistics sector ahead of tomorrow's Budget.
With the challenging economic outlook post Brexit and uncertainty over future trading relations with Europe, director general Robert Keen asked Phillip Hammond to take some immediate steps to improve the operating environment ...
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Paris in Liverpool
The Port of Liverpool handled its largest ever containership at its new deepwater terminal on 6 March. Liverpool2 played host to MSC’s 6,552teu HS Paris, which is the first post-Panamax vessel to call since opening of phase 1 opening of the new terminal last November.
Chief executive of Peel ...
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XPO Logistics is to relocate Groupe SEB’s UK warehousing operation to its shared user facility at West Hallam, Derby as part of a multi-million pound, long-term contract extension with the domestic appliance firm. It will receive daily loads, mostly from France and China. XPO Logistics already provides transport services to ...
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Grangemouth, Scotland’s main container port, has put three new Kalmar straddle carriers into operation. The new ESC340 straddle machines increase the number of machines at the terminal to 16 and are the first phase of a programme to replace the entire fleet. Owners Forth Ports also added a new Hyster ...
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Forwarding and logistics firm Ace Express has won the Deloitte award for the best-managed company for an unprecedented nine years in a row.
The accountancy giant’s Best Managed Companies Symposium and Gala Awards programme recognises indigenous Irish companies across the island of Ireland that operate at the highest levels of business ...
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The freight forwarder will survive online retailers launching their own brokerage services because of “the vastly challenging and circuitous landscape” that the industry operates in, BIFA predicts.
The British International Freight Association (BIFA) has reacted to current speculation that Amazon and Uber may be about to launch their own global freight ...
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