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South African-based Imperial Holdings is to acquire Palletways from current shareholder Phoenix Equity Partners for £163 million.
Imperial is a Johannesburg-listed international group of companies with a focus on consumer and industrial logistics. It says it fully supports the UK and European pallet network operator’s current management and will continue the company’s existing growth strategy, including plans to invest further in geographical expansion, product and service development, and its technology platform. ...
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Peel Ports officially opened its Port Salford development on the Manchester Ship Canal on 31 May. Culina Group has taken the first warehouse unit, of 26,022 sq m (280,000 sq ft), with food firm General Mills as its anchor client. The site will act as a central hub for General ...
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The House of Commons Transport Committee says more should be done to demonstrate that proposal for a lorry park to alleviate the effects of disruption at the port of Dover will deliver, in its Operation Stack report. However, the Government is right to seek a solution to the problem, it says.
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Freightliner has launched its 23rd daily rail service from the Port of Felixstowe, to and South Yorkshire. Ultimately it will serve the Freightliner Rail Port at Doncaster after development work has finished at the site but in the interim it will go to the DB Cargo site operated by Newell ...
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Irish Ferries’ parent company Irish Continental Group has signed an agreement with Germany’s Flensburger shipyard to build a cruise ferry for €144 million. The vessel will have space for up to 165 trucks, as well as 300 cars and 1,885 passengers and crew – with dedicated space for freight drivers ...
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The British International Freight Association (BIFA) is carrying out a survey to find out what sort of skill development the sector wants in advance of developing a professional qualification.
It has also appointed Carl Hobbis, formerly in charge of public relations at DB Schenker, as training development manager.
Hobbis explained that BIFA ...
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Geodis is relocating its premises in Mumbai to ‘The Qube’ at MV Road in Andheri (East). The forwarder provides freight management, industrial project management, buyer’s consolidation and a free trade warehousing zone in India, where it has been present since 1998, now operating from 14 locations in the country.
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Woodland Sport has signed a sponsorship agreement with former rugby star David Barnes to as its ambassador in 2016. Barnes, a former Bath prop with over a decade’s involvement with the Rugby Players Association and has filled the role of RPA director and RPA chairman with great distinction.
Woodland Group and ...
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With up to half of France's 10,000 filling stations running dry or short of fuel due in the current wave of protests over new labour laws, the Freight Transport Association is urging drivers heading to Europe to check the Connexions France website (www.connexionsfrance.com). A real-time map shows availability of fuel ...
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World Customs Organisation secretary general Kunio Mikuriya will be guest of honour at the opening ceremony of the FIATA World Congress in Dublin on 5 October.
The freight forwarding body’s congress, which attracts up to 1,000 delegates, takes place in the Irish capital on 3-8 October this year at the Convention ...
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