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P&O Ferrymasters and Italy’s Transmec Group, have opened a private intermodal terminal in Oradea, Romania, managed by their jointly-owned company Intermodal Vest.
The companies launched a Zeebrugge-Romania service two years ago – initially via the public Romanian railhead in Curtici – and added an Italy-Romania route in June. However,operational and commercial limitations at Curtici prompted the companies to source a private, dedicated alternative and the Intermodal Vest operation was acquired in ...
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A report by the International Road Transport Union (IRU) says that African countries could save themselves billions of dollars by implementing the TIR convention for international transit traffic.
Transit costs in East and Southern Africa concludes that the system could cut costs by hundreds of dollars per container, and would be ...
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EU staff are vital to logistics sector, Freight Transport Association (FTA) chief executive David Wells told the transport secretary at a meeting on 10 October. The FTA chief told Chris Grayling that EU workers are as vital to the logistics industry as they are to the NHS and construction sector.
Mr ...
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Volga-Dnepr has taken delivery of its tenth new 747-8 freighter at a handover ceremony in Everett, US. It brings ABC’s fleet to 16 747 freighters and following the group’s confirmation in July of an order for 20 similar aircraft. Future deliveries will lead to the phasing out of the remaining ...
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Middle Eastern handling company dnata’s has opened a new customer service centre for export cargo at Dubai Airport Free Zone. It says it marks the beginning of a product improvement program for airlines, freight forwarders and shippers. Spanning over 5,000 sqm with 50 dedicated staff, the centre is expected to ...
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P&O Ferries says its Zeebrugge-Teesport route has seen a 16% increase in freight units in the third quarter of the year compared with 2015.
Between July and September, P&O Ferries' two ships on the route - the Bore Song and the Mistral - carried 22,499 freight units ocompared with 19,349 in ...
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BIFA says it believes that a decision on new runways for south-east England will be made soon and that it will favour expansion of Heathrow.
Robert Keen, director general of the freight industry trade association said: “In the last week there have been a number of indications that a decision is ...
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Freight forwarder association Fiata and airline body IATA officially signed the up to the reformed IATA Cargo Agency Program at the FIATA world congress in Dublin in early October.
The new IATA-FIATA Cargo Agency Program (IFACP) aims to recognise forwarders’ evolution away from being selling agents to purchasing customers and aims ...
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Former IAG Cargo regional commercial manager Europe Chris Nielen has been appointed sales vice president at all-cargo airline Cargolux. He will be based at the airline’s headquarters in Luxembourg.
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As well as opening the UK’s newest box port, DP World London Gateway has also found time to turn a space equivalent to 82 football pitches into a nature reserve near its Thameside site. It has created 65 hectares of important intertidal habitat, which will provide feeding ground for wading ...
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