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Hong Kong-based U-Freight is redeveloping some of its warehouses to better equip them to handle the logistics for e-commerce.
Chief executive Simon Wong said the company is planning significant investment in equipment, pick and pack areas, low level racking and mezzanine floors in many of its warehouses. Redevelopment of facilities in the Hong Kong has already started and this will be replicated at warehouses around the region, including China, the Philippines, ...
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The global recession and global overcapacity claimed its largest shipping industry casualty to date when Korean-owned Hanjin called in the receivers on 31 August. It followed the withdrawal of backing by the state Korea Development Bank, which stated that its debt stood at $5.5 billion at the end of June.
The ...
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TIACA secreatary general Doug Brittin is to retire at the end of this year.
A selection committee, under the direction of Sebastiaan Scholte of Jan de Rijk Logistics has been established to review and recruit candidates for a replacement. Brittin will stay with TIACA in an advisory capacity once the ...
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Panalpina has opened a new office in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. It offers air and ocean freight, customs brokerage, in-land transportation, cross-border trucking with Vietnam and Thailand, container freight station consolidation, and warehousing and storage services.
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APL Logistics has formed APL Logistics Oman, a new joint venture company with Arab Global Logistics to develop the country as a regional logistics hub for the Middle-East and East Africa. It will specialise in the automotive, consumer, industrials, and retail sectors and will offer inbound and production logistics, finished ...
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Jakarta’s new container terminal built by NYK Line, Pelabuhan Indonesia, Mitsui and PSA International has opened for commercial service at Tanjung Priok Port. It will be operated by the newly established company PT New Priok Container Terminal One and will have a capacity of about 1.5m teu a year, overall ...
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PD Ports has christened its new harbour master launch High Tide Adventure in honour of its youth education charity, with Redcar & Cleveland Borough Council leader, Sue Jeffrey, as ‘godmother’.
High Tide helps raise the aspirations and awareness of job opportunities for young people on Teesside.
Based at Teesport, it will also ...
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The world's longest aircraft - the Airlander 10 - has been damaged after nosediving on landing during its second test flight, the BBC reports.
The 302ft long aircraft plane- airship – hit the ground at its Cardington Airfield base in Bedfordshire. The aircraft cockpit sustained most of the damage but developer ...
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The APL arm of shipping line NOL – which is being taken over by CMA CGM - has launched a new weekly India Pakistan Europe (IPE) service. It calls at Port Qasim, Nhava Sheva, Hazira, Mundra, Jeddah, Djibouti and calls in Europe include Southampton and Felixstowe. First sailing eastbound is ...
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Former Menzies Aviation chief executive Craig Smyth has been appointed CEO at airfreight handler Worldwide Flight Services (WFS) from 29 August. He takes over from Olivier Bijaoui, who resigned in July. In his 20 years at Menzies, Smyth is credited to building the business up into one of the world’s ...
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