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Worldwide Flight Services (WFS) has won a three-year contract to provide cargo handling and trucking services for Pakistan International Airlines flights at London Heathrow, Birmingham and Manchester. WFS operations director, UK & Ireland, Cliff McKrell, said: “PIA has recognised the value of having a single cargo handler at all three of its online airports in the UK, which we are also able to connect using our UK coastwise trucking network.”
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Network provider SOGET and Port Authority of Jamaica (PAJ) have launched the pilot phase of S)ONE port community system (PCS), for transshipment. SOGET said the move would dramatically improve the fluidity and security in day-to-day operations.
As a major transshipment hub in the Caribbean, Jamaica needed a PCS to maintain its ...
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DHL Express has opened a €85 million South Asia Hub at Changi Airfreight Centre. The 23,600 sqm facility contains the first fully automated express parcel sorting and processing system in South Asia, and is 33% larger than the previous hub. The CAC is a 24-hour free trade zone managed by ...
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Kuehne + Nagel Group increased gross profit by 6.3% to CHF 4,900 million while net turnover slightly decreased in the first nine months of 2016. Earnings improved 5.1% to CHF 817 million. Earnings for the period increased by 4.1% to CHF 533 million compared to the previous year. Container volume ...
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A Cabinet sub-committee, chaired by Theresa May, is expected to make a choice of which London airport to expand next week – but a vote by MPs to finally decide whether to go ahead is unlikely to take place for another year.
The Government has also indicated that its own MPs ...
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Eurotunnel Group (GET) is to sell its GB Railfreight arm to Scandinavian investment firm EQT Infrastructure II and will use the money to strengthen its core activity. GBRf, the UK’s third-largest rail operator in the UK, was acquired in 2010 for £25 and has since more than doubled its activities, ...
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France's President Francois Hollande vowed to make France “an attractive territory” for businesses that did not want to stay in the UK after it leaves the European Union. At a ceremony at Paris-Charles de Gaulle airport to mark the start of a major hub extension for FedEx, he told assembled ...
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Stoke-on-Trent South MP and Transport Select Committee member, Rob Flello, says the freight and transport sectors need to decide quickly what their policy is on Brexit or risk not having any say at all. He says he has heard a whole host of demands from different voices in the industry ...
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Crowley Maritime’s logistics group has moved water, generators and food and other supplies to Haiti in partnership following the hurricane there. Crowley has personnel on site in Port au Prince, Haiti supporting the efforts of the US Naval Supply Command to supply aid to the Haitian people.
The current effort follows ...
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Peel Ports has gained planning permission to develop the former Thamesteel site at Sheerness as a logistics hub. The 50-acre site will be developed for the handling, storage and distribution of commodities such as automotive, steel and forest products.
It will also allow enable Peel Ports to respond to increasing demand ...
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