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FedEx and TNT Express said that 88.4% of the total number of shares had been tendered by the deadline on 13 May. FedEx said it would announce no later than 19 May whether it would declare its offer for TNT unconditional.
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EMR, one of the world’s largest metal recycling companies has signed a new 25 year lease with the port of Tilbury and will be upgrading its facilities and investing around £3m in improved ship loading equipment. The site acts as an export hub for the company’s depots around London and ...
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Don’t believe rumours about ‘tolerance’ in the new SOLAS rules on verified gross mass for containers, speakers told a seminar at the recent Multimodal conference.
Containers which are already at sea on 1 July and need transhipment are the only deepsea boxes that will not be subject to the rules, said ...
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Yet another shipping alliance is born
MOL, NYK, K Line, Hanjin, Hapag-Lloyd and Yang Ming are to create a new alliance covering all east-west trades including Asia-Europe/Mediterranean, the Transatlantic, Asia-North America and Asia-Middle East, and have signed a binding agreement.
‘THE Alliance’ is scheduled to begin operation in April 2017 subject to ...
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IAG Cargo will separate its current Abu Dhabi and Muscat service into two flights and will split its Bahrain and Doha service from this winter. The four separate services will boost capacity to the Middle East by 83%, it says.
The next generation B787-9 will serve the Abu Dhabi offering a ...
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Lufthansa Cargo, Europe’s largest scheduled airfreight carrier, has signed a cooperation agreement with Hong Kong-based the cargo division of Cathay Pacific Airways, the biggest carrier in Asia.
Customer benefits include more direct connections, greater flexibility and time savings combined with service enhancements, said Cathay cargo director Simon Large, and Lufthansa Cargo ...
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The UK is facing a chronic shortage of warehousing due to years of under-development combined with growing demand, especially from e-commerce operators. This will likely lead to considerably higher rents, director of Logistics Research at Savills, Kevin Mofid, told a seminar at the Multimodal event in Birmingham in May.
“There’s very ...
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Mega vessels might help shipping lines but they are not necessarily good for shippers, FTA director of global and European Policy, Chris Welsh (FTA) told a session at the Multimodal conference on 11 May. “The mega vessels reduce unit costs for shipping lines but overall supply chain costs are increasing,” ...
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The Freight Transport Association said it welcomed the decision by the Secretary of State to approve imporvements to the A14 between Cambridge and Huntingdon.The route is an import link between the Midlands and the Port of Felixstowe.
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FS Mackenzie (FSM) – the UK member of the FPS Group network of independent forwarders and consolidators – has relocated its Liverpool office to a new base in Waterloo, close to the city’s container terminals at Seaforth. FSM Liverpool was previously based in St Helens. FSM Liverpool provides ocean, road ...
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