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British Airways and Iberia Cargo owner IAG Cargo has launched its first ever direct cargo route between France and the US –a four days a week B767-200 route from Paris Orly to Newark New Jersey. It will operate under the Open Skies agreement between the EU and the US.
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Precision planning and cooperation between the Port of Ipswich and marine agencies recently saw the largest vessel ever call at the port.
The Dijksgracht, 156.93 metres long, arrived at Ipswich with a shipment of 10,500 tonnes of rice from Texas for discharge at the Orwell Bulk Terminal opened last year.
The ABP ...
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Air cargo at Budapest Airport hit the 100,000-tonnes mark in late November, according to airport authority figures and the Hungarian gateway expects to break its annual record this year. Growth has come from traditional all-cargo carriers, integrators and bellyhold operators.
The airport is also used as a gateway to Europe by ...
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Gefco Forwarding UK has moved its Humanitarian Relief Logistics headquarters to a new facility at EuroCentral, near Glasgow, and has appointed Ben Cunnington (pictured, below left) to head the new division. he previously worked as business development manager – Scotland for GEFCO Forwarding UK, where he was focused on the ...
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DP World has opened the first ‘smart’ logistics centre in Lurin, Peru connected through optical fibres to its terminal at Callao Port, near the capital Lima. The centre will deliver information to the port and customs enabling customers to manage the movement of their cargo using electronic devices and smartphones. ...
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Lufthansa Cargo is to expand the Cool Center at its home hub in Frankfurt from its current 4,500sq m to 8,000sq m by late summer 2017. The original phase was completed in December 2011 and boasts four cold-storage rooms at 2 to 8 °C, 15 to 25 °C, -12 to ...
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CMA CGM is introducing a new APEX service between Liverpool, Bristol, Dublin, connecting directly to its West African services in Algeciras in southern Spain. it will offer a much quicker routing for cargo bound for West Africa, says the carrier.
At the same time, CMA CGM’s Nemo service to Reunion and ...
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Tyler, age 4 and Evie, 9 are the latest children of FedEx team members to have two Boeing 757 aircraft named in their honour as part of the the carrier’s aircraft naming programme. They join over 700 employees’ children who have received this honour, saluting the vital role employees play ...
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The SolasVGM software platform that helps shippers reduce the costs and processes associated with verified gross mass (VGM) requirements has completed 12,000 transactions, five months after going live.
It has been developed by Marine Transport International in partnership with data company Black Swan, and allows shippers to submit the VGM information ...
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Southampton Cargo Handling (SCH) has handled its 200,000th car of the year – the first time the port’s major handler of deep-sea ro-ro cargoes has exceeded that figure in more than 25 years of operations. The milestone was reached with the cargo loaded on the EUKOR Car Carriers’ vessel Morning ...
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