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Subject to board approval, Stena Line will take delivery of four new ro pax ferries during 2019 and 2020, with an option for another four vessels. The Chinese-built ferries will be used on the line's route network in Northern Europe.
Stena managing director, Carl-Johan Hagman, said that the new ships were to a design by Stena's own engineering staff and would not only be 50% larger than today’s standard ro paxes ...
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Aircraft after-market firm Ontic has appointed specialist aerospace logistics provider B&H Worldwide as its warehouse and inventory manager. The operation will be centred on a dedicated, climate-controlled facility at Heathrow. A web portal allows customers to log in to have their parts despatched - with full instructions - at any ...
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ABP Director Southampton Nick Ridehalgh is stepping down from his role and will be replaced by Alastair Welch, from 8 April. Alastair Welch has worked at Heathrow’s Terminal 4 and London Southend Airport.
Nick Ridehalgh, who has been with ABP since 1991 and was appointed Southampton director at the start ...
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The Freight Transport Association (FTA) is offering shippers a free one-hour briefing session on the new verified gross mass container rules in London at 13.30 on Thursday 14 April. The session follows a members-only British Shippers’ Council meeting.
The briefing is open to all shippers -and only shippers - both ...
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Grimaldi's transatlantic con ro arm, ACL has taken delivery of the Atlantic Sail, the second of five new G4 vessels due to be delivered by the end of 2016. She sailed from China in early April will take her place in the schedule in early May, alongside the Atlantic Star. ...
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Glasgow-based Braid Logistics (UK) has reached a £2.2m settlement with the Crown Office after self-reporting two cases of corruption by its ex-employees. The first incident was an agreement made between a Braid UK employee and the employee of a customer.
The first involved payment of unauthorised expenses by an ...
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Former Russian Railways deputy head of corporate finance Pavel Ilichev is to join forwarding and logistics company Gefco as executive vice president for strategy and finance. He is replacing Philippe Cossé who has retired after 15 years at the company. Pavel Ilichev will guide Gefco’s strategic decisions regarding financial matters, ...
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Maltese forwarder and transport operator and Express Trailers has got into the manufacturing business. The company has become the only authorized re-builders of customised side-loaders in Europe for Swedish firm Hammar.
Side-loaders, or side-lifters, load and unload containers onto trailers without cranes using a hydraulic-powered mechanism installed on its chassis, capable ...
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Darrell Bryan, formerly president and chief executive of North American operator, Victoria Clipper, has started work as interim chief executive of the Interferry international ferry community body, following the retirement of Len Roueche.
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The total value of completed Freight & Logistics mergers and acquisitions has more than quadrupled from £7.2bn in 2013 to £31.4bn in 2015, according to KPMG’s latest Transport Tracker. Further transactions worth approximately £33.2n were announced during the year, it added.
Asset-light logistics operators with advanced IT systems have, in ...
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