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Freight forwarder Röhlig UK has appointed Mark Conway (picture, left) and Rob Lawry (right) o its commercial team. Mark Conway brings 20 years’ experience in the business and Rob Lawry 18 years. Their appointments are part of the Röhlig UK operational excellence strategy, which focusses on serving customers throughout its global Röhlig network and enables them to reach their business goals.
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Air Charter Service’s Brazil and Florida offices chartered Antonov Airlines’ giant AN-225 to carry the heaviest single piece of air cargo to be flown in the Americas, a 182 tonne transformer from São Paulo to Santiago de Chile. From there it was transferred to its final destination, where it replaced ...
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DSV Road said that its Purfleet and Tamworth centres both handled over 10 million freight kilos for the first time on record, with Tamworth repeating the feat in October. At the same time, its UK Domestic network handled over 60,000 consignments in September and again in October, the highest on ...
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Russian carrier AirBridgeCargo Airlines (ABC) has become the first airline in Russia - and the seventh in the world - to gain IATA CEIV (Center of Excellence for Validators in Pharmaceutical Logistics) certification for pharmaceutical shipments through its Moscow Sheremetyevo hub.
The carrier completed its preparation in just four months before ...
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Global Shippers’ Forum (GSF) secretary-general Chris Welsh has been invited to join the International Cargo Handling Coordination Association (ICHCA) board. GSF itself joined ICHCA in 2012 to promote cooperation between shippers and the international cargo handling community and to enhance safety standards in the maritime supply chain. Mr Welsh said ...
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Teesport is celebrating the second anniversary of the opening of its Intermodal Rail Terminal in 2014.
The hub enjoys regular Freightliner trains to and from Felixstowe and Southampton by Freightliner and services to Mossend and Grangemouth by DB Cargo UK.
PD Ports’ business development director, Geoff Lippitt, said: “We are nearing capacity ...
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Hapag-Lloyd is setting up customer service desks for coffee in selected offices handling large volumes of the commodity. They are staffed by employees who can satisfy the requirements of coffee customers even more quickly and include an export desk in Brazil and an import desk in Hamburg, Europe’s largest centre ...
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Harwich International Port has joined its sister its sister port at Felixstowe in gaining Authorised Economic Operator (AEO) status from HM Revenue & Customs. AEO status gives quicker access to certain simplified customs procedures and in some cases the right to ‘fast-track’ shipments through some customs procedures.
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Stena Line celebrated the fifth anniversary of its Belfast – Cairnryan service on 21 November. The service opened in 2011 and was part of an £80m investment by Stena Line included a new Loch Ryan Port being built at Cairnryan in Scotland and the introduction of the two largest ferries ...
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Turkish-based Ekol Logistics’ multimodal arm – Alternative Transport - launched its sixth vessel the Meleq on 18 November in Flensburg, Germany.
The ship has a 280-trailer capacity and will join Alternative Transport’s five-strong fleet in February, 2017, on the Turkey to Italy route.
Ekol Logistics and Alternative Transport chairman Ahmet ...
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