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The Freight Transport Association (FTA) has drawn up an action plan to tackle problems at the Port of Calais. It came as Prime Minister David Cameron and French President Francois Hollande met in Amiens to discuss the migrants crisis on 3 March.
The five-point plans includes moving the migrant camp away from the motorway and Eurotunnel terminal to deter migrants from attempting to board commercial vehicles and trains as well as ...
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West African shipping and logistics specialist OMA has appointed David Yeung as country manager for OMA Côte d’Ivoire. He replaces Julien Contie who is moving on to a new venture. David Yeung joins from UAFL in Mauritius and has 22 years of experience in shipping and logistics including 11 years ...
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DB Schenker Rail UK, the UK’s largest rail freight company, has been rebranded DB Cargo UK. It is part of a full re-branding of DB Schenker Rail business units across Europe – which will all become known as DB Cargo during 2016. DB Schenker's global logistics and forwarding activity will ...
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Cargo airline Bright Flight has based an Antonov An-26B freighter at Paderborn-Lippstadt Airport, about 100km east of Duesseldorf. Urgent deliveries up to 5.5 tons of freight can now be transported at short notice and to any location throughout Europe from the airport, which is open 24 hours a day.
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The English Commercial Court has thrown out a case brought by the Djibouti government against its former Port and Freezone Authority chairman Abdourahman Boreh alleging improper practice in awarding an operating concession to DP World. In a statement, the global port operator said: “We have invested significantly in Djibouti over ...
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Maersk Line's intra-European arm Seago is to introduce a direct service between the Mediterranean transhipment hub of Algeciras in Spain and Liverpool from 13 April.
Liverpool's new Liverpool2 large container berth is also due to start handling its first commercial boxes at about the same time.
The service, which also calls in ...
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Logistics and forwarding operator Delamode – hitherto best known as an East European specialist - has launched new groupage services for Italy and Germany. Customers can ship from the UK to any destination in Italy and Germany using Delamode’ network with daily departures for Germany and twice weekly departures for ...
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Freight forwarder FS Mackenzie Group (FSM) – the UK and Russia member of the FPS Group network of independent forwarders and NVOCCs – has opened a new office in Tbilisi, Georgia, to act as gateway for imports to the Caucasus region. It is the company’s 17th branch.
The new operation is ...
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The Global Shippers’ Forum (GSF) has called for a Maritime Industries Supply Chain Forum to be set up to tackle the poor quality of service since the consolidation of the world’s top 20 lines into ‘super alliances’,
One year on from the publication of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and ...
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Lufthansa Cargo is to market the belly capacity of holiday airline Eurowings’ long-haul flights from the start of the summer timetable on 27 March. The network includes routes from Cologne/Boon to the Caribbean (Varadero, Cancun, Dominican Republic) and Thailand (Phuket, Bangkok).
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