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KLM Cargo has opened a new cargo handling facility at New York’s JFK airport. It is designed to handle all types of cargo, including pharmaceuticals, live animals or express and offers split cool chain enclosures, 2-8°C with storage capability (72 cubic meters) and 15-25°C (108 cu m). There will also be ten Active container charging points and a bank strong room. Live animals will be catered for at the airport’s ...
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Former Fortec directors Neil Hodgson and Marcus Fischer are to launch a new UK pallet network, Principle – the first for over ten years - but the initial focus will be on the domestic market, although international services could come at a later stage.
They have secured a seven-figure investment from ...
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Guests at this year's UKWA annual lunch and awards at London's Dorchester Hotel, raised over £9,000 for international development charity, Transaid.
Thanking the UKWA members for their generosity, Transaid's CEO Gary Forster described how over 6,000 African drivers had been trained by Transaid and drastically reduced the amount of wasted medicines ...
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Chesterfield-based Hastings Freight has been named pallet network Palletways' International Member of the Year at a ceremony in Germany.
It recognises the haulier’s long term performance, growth, commitment and service excellence in the European marketplace. Hastings Freight is the single largest Palletways member across the whole of Europe for international pallet ...
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Rugby-based Exact Logistics company is set to make a glowing impression in the south of France. It is helping Table Art, based in nearby Leamington Spa, export its radio controlled, battery powered light-up pieces to its new French office in Nice as well as delivering pieces direct to events. And ...
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The International Air Transport Association (IATA) and the International Federation of Freight Forwarders Associations (FIATA) have unveiled a new-look IATA Cargo Agency Program, which they say willput forwarders on a more equal footing than the present airline-centric set-up.
The new IATA-FIATA Air Cargo Program (IFACP), signed on 18 July by IATA ...
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Rhenus Logistics UK waived its fee to move a 1.5-tonne memorial stone to the First World War Bradford Pals battalion to France.
It is estimated that more than three-quarters of the 1,394 troops from the battalion who went 'over the top' on the first day of the battle of the Somme ...
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Freight Transport Association (FTA) chief executive David Wells has called on the new Prime Minister to ensure that goods continue to move freely between the UK and the rest of the world.
In a letter to the Rt Hon Theresa May MP, Mr Wells said the UK economy relies on the ...
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Freight forwarder Geodis is has opened a new oil and gas warehouse at Aberdeen harbour. The 1,850sq m facility has direct access to Aberdeen port and is within easy reach of the airport and will be managed by personnel with specific knowledge and skills in sector. Geodis already has similar ...
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British International Freight Association (BIFA) director general, Robert Keen is urging the new transport secretary and new secretary of state for international trade Government to stop procrastinating over the expansion of UK aviation capacity “and move forward with the recommendations made by the Airports Commission by building more capacity at ...
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