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Port operator DP World has appointed Sara Falaknaz as chief innovation officer. She is currently vice president of innovation and her new duties will expand the role in other directions. The company is building a group-wide global innovation structure across its operations and has already created an online portal called “innoGate” to collect ideas from its 37,000 strong workforce across 40 countries. She will also lead exploration of investment in ...
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Work on a UK-financed wall around the port of Calais has been completed, reports EUObserver. Work on the €2.7m, 4-metre high wall has been ongoing for three months.
https://euobserver.com/tickers/136253
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DHL eCommerce has joined forces with Thailand’s Ministry of Commerce to help the country’s farmers beat a rice glut. The Deutsche Post division will offer its expertise and logistics services free for four months to help Thai farmers grow their business and reap the benefits from selling on e-commerce platforms. ...
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The Transported Asset Protection Association (TAPA) is asking law enforcement agencies, insurers, manufacturers and logistics service providers to share cargo crime intelligence to address under-reporting in the Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) region. It comes as TAPA’s latest data for thefts from supply chains in the third quarter shows ...
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Supermarket chain Lidl is due to open a 187,000sq ft distribution hub at London Gateway from February next year. Lidl will occupy the warehouse areas of the Logistics Centre, which became vacant earlier this year.
Lidl head of warehouse expansion Adrienne Howells, said the site would support new and existing stores ...
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Ekol Logistics has acquired a 65% of its Trieste, Italy port and rail terminal operator Europa Multipurpose Terminals.
At the same time, Ekol’s new ro ro terminal in Yalova, Turkey is due to be inaugurated in early 2017.
Planned investments in Trieste will allow two separate ro-ro operations to be handled simultaneously, ...
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Maersk Line, Mediterranean Shipping Company (MSC) have signed a strategic cooperation deal with Korea’s Hyundai Merchant Marine (HMM.
The agreement is a combination of slot exchanges and slot purchases between the three parties, while Maersk Line and MSC will takeg over a number of charters and operations of vessels currently chartered to ...
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The Deutsche Post board has reappointed chief executive Frank Appel for another five years until October 2022. He has been a member of the Management Board of Deutsche Post DHL Group since 2002 and chief executive since 2008.
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The Gotthard Base Tunnel linking in Switzerland is now fully operational, following the completion of tests, and following its official opening in June. Not only will it cut journey times for freight trains between the north and south of the country, but it will also speed up services on a ...
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Turkish logistics company Ekol and the VIIA intermodal arm of the French Railways won the Multimodal Operator category at the Nuit du Shortsea Shipping et de l’intermodalité Gala in Paris on 7 December. Three months ago Ekol and VIIA announced the start of a new service based on a weekly shuttle ...
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