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Three new 65 metre tall ship-to-shore container cranes manufactured in Ireland by Liebherr and assembled in Cork Harbour are scheduled for delivery to Crowley Puerto Rico Services’ Isla Grande Terminal in San Juan later this month.
The cranes which are currently on board the Overseas Heavy Transport vessel ‘Albatross’, which has transferred from Cork Dockyard to the Deepwater berth in Ringaskiddy to take on ballast before departure to San Juan.
Before the ...
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Freight forwarder DSV has opened a new office in Skopje, Macedonia – its first in the country. The office, with a staff of three, will be managed by Mr Dragan Petrushevski, who has many years of logistics experience in Macedonia as well as abroad. A new company, DSV Road DOOEL, ...
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Cruelty Free International is calling on Vietnam Airlines to reinstate its embargo on shipments of monkeys for the research industry. The campaign group says that it has obtained information that the carrier transported at least four shipments of monkeys to Russia during 2016, despite its announcement of a ban in ...
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IAG Cargo has appointed Lewis Girdwood as chief financial officer. He joins the business from EasyJet, where he was head of financial planning and analysis.
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The impact of mega-ships and alliances on shippers, new regulations affecting container packing, and opportunities created by free trade zones will all be explored during this year’s Multimodal.
With the container industry building bigger ships to cut costs, and unparalleled consolidation within the industry through mergers and acquisitions, the shipping landscape ...
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Virgin Atlantic Cargo is launching a new daily service from London Heathrow to Seattle and is adding extra flights from Manchester to the US. Seattle joins the airline’s network on 26 March and, says senior vice president, cargo, John Lloyd, is in the top 15 US import/export markets with the ...
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Lufthansa Cargo has been named a Preferred Carrier by DHL Global Forwarding and was the only airline to score full points in all four of its GoGreen categories. It was rated according to CO2 emissions; its commitment to harmonising CO2 calculation and reporting and to other environmental projects; the level ...
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Transport trade unions staged demonstrations in Germany and Sweden during February highlighting the plight of drivers working for subcontractors to IKEA. The said that they were working on the road for weeks and months on end, earning inferior wages, living in their trucks and subject to the abuse of social, ...
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Transmec Group has appointed Phil Thomas as UK sales manager. He was previously sales manager at the company’s Redditch depot, and will now take on added responsibility for thes Bradford and West Thurrock branches.
UK general manager, John Simkins, said the new appointment would help Transmec “take advantage of significant opportunities ...
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Rhenus Offshore Logistics is starting operation of two new offshore supply bases at the ports of Great Yarmouth and Aberdeen through its recently opened UK office.
After successfully supplying around 90% of all German wind farms since 2014, Rhenus Offshore Logistics entered the UK market in 2016 by opening its own ...
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