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German-owned forwarder a.hartrodt has opened an office in Dublin. It will be overseen by UK managing director Andreas Russ who said it represented “a natural progression in the development of a.hartrodt’s extensive network” and complement the forwarder's range of air and sea freight services worldwide.
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Wholesale courier firm Freight Brokers is managing international shipments for British fashion brand Body Editions. The label, which specialises in bodysuits, is expanding into new markets and recently became available for purchase at Net-a-Porter, Avenue 32, and Alex Eagle.
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Menzies Distribution has signed a deal with cross-border e-commerce delivery specialist B2C Europe to collect packaged orders from its retail customers and deliver them to UK processing centres. B2C managing director Stuart Rivett said the move would help his company widen its customer reach in the UK market.
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The fortunes of UK freight forwarders will be intricately linked with the success of current and future free trade negotiations, predicts market intelligence firm Key Note in a new report. Free trade agreements among the world’s economies are boosting trade volume and creating new opportunities involved in the process, it ...
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Violence by migrants against truck drivers in Calais is increasing and measures currently being taken to protect them are not enough, warns the Road haulage Association. Security on the ground at the port has been stepped up but this has made migrants increasingly frustrated in their efforts to gain access ...
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Heathrow airport has published research which it says shows that if it had unconstrained capacity, its exports by value to China would overtake those to the US and become the biggest destination within two years.
The research, shared as part of British Export Week on 9-13 November), detailed the value ...
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Recent events making the headlines underpin just how vulnerable our transport systems are. Indeed, the head of MI5, Andrew Parker, highlighted 'transport systems' as a key target in his public speech on the 8th January 2015.
Now in its 13th edition, Transport Security Expo (TRS) has become the main global platform ...
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Air Charter Service was called in to help out drivers attempting to get from the southernmost point in South Africa to the northernmost tip of Norway in record time. With land travel through Syria out of the question to travel, the team, driving a VW Touareg from Cape Agulhas to ...
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DB Schenker Rail UK and the Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport (CILT) to sponsor a Master’s degree final year student dissertation. The theme is ‘Rail Freight Logistics – the role of rail freight in the intermodal supply chain of the future’.
DB Schenker Rail UK head of marketing Steve Pryce ...
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UK Security Minister at the Home Office John Hayes will officially open this year’s Transport Security Expo at Olympia London on 2 December. The conference and exhibition, now in its 13th edition, has become the main global platform bringing government, industry & academia together to counter the threat against our ...
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