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The GreenBridge Multimodal joint venture has introduced a fourth intermodal rail and sea service between Turkey and Europe. The joint venture organisation between Samskip Multimodal and Intercombi Transport - a subsidiary of the Turkey Netlog Logistics Group - is now operating an additional roundtrip train to connect the Duisburg rail hub and the port of Trieste, where there are six weekly sailings to Turkey by UN Ro Ro.
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The Freight Transport Association (FTA) has issued a ‘Brexit manifesto’ on behalf of the UK logistics industry, collated from responses from the FTA’s 16,000 members.
FTA deputy chief executive James Hookham, said: “We believe that the logistics industry has a key role to play in ensuring that Britain’s new trading relationships ...
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EKOL Greece received a Gold Award in the Freight Transportation & Freight Forwarding at the recent Transport & Logistics Awards in Athens. Country manager Dimitris Batakis said it was in recognition of initiatives including as a new block train connection linking Greece with Scandinavia.
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The IRU has published new international guidelines to reduce the number of people injured and to minimise transport disruptions resulting from load related incidents in the workplace and on the road. “Safe and Efficient Goods Reception for Road Freight” sets out standards on safe loading and unloading practices, the guidelines ...
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Maersk Line has settled a competition case with Russia’s Federal Antimonopoly Service over it and other shipping lines’ use of price announcements in the local market. The agreement is subject to payment of a settlement fee of about US$230,000 by Maersk Line but a previous FAS $12 million fine will ...
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INTTRA, the world's Electronic ocean shipping marketplace INTTRA says that container orders, including bookings, shipping instructions and shipping orders handled through its system grew 16% in 2016 compared with 2015. The company processed 38.5 million container orders on its platform, where as containership rose by just 3% in 2016, according ...
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Forwarder Kuehne + Nagel is offering a contract packaging solution. It is based on a Cloud-based solution from contract packaging software developer, Nulogy to give customers with a targeted and traceable solution for their contract packaging needs. KN has also signed a strategic partnership with Universal Robots, one of the ...
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About two thirds of damages to cargo result from poorly packed, blocked or secured cargo in containers and trailers, said a group of cargo expert ahead of European Shipping Week in Brussels from 27 February.
Global Shippers Forum (GSF); the cargo handling group ICHCA, liner shipping organisation World Shipping Council (WSC)and ...
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Don’t rush into paying over the odds for advice on Brexit, BIFA is warning its members. Director general, Robert Keen says: “There has been a huge volume of announcements and press coverage on the likely impact on the UK’s international trade and the issue has certainly been a shot in ...
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BIFA has appointed Rachel Morley to its board, replacing Carson McMullan who has stepped down. She is general manager for operations at East Midlands based Spatial Global. Carson McMullan has been appointed a consultant representing BIFA in Northern Ireland.
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