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UK independent freight forwarder Davies Turner has recruited a record 13 graduate and A-Level apprentices this year – its sixth annual intake since it started its national apprenticeship and trainee programme in 2010.
They will have the opportunity to be trained in all Davies Turner’s different departments, before agreeing with their managers and mentors which department or section best suits both the company and the trainee in the longer term. They ...
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Developer J Smart has started construction of a first phase 20,000 sq ft speculative industrial unit at Belgrave Point, Bellshill, in the heart of the central Scottish logistics industry. The development’s first phase, due for completion in May 2016, is being marketed for lease by Colliers International and JLL and ...
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GEFCO Group is to acquire the Netherlands-based air and sea forwarder IJS Global following an agreement with the private equity fund Nimbus.
Founded in 2004, Amsterdam-headquartered IJS has around 500 employees and operations in 16 countries including the UK Australia, China, South-East Asia and the US.
Its turnover was €160 ...
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IAG Cargo will launch a new daily route from London Heathrow to San Jose, California on 4 May 2016, operating daily with a British Airways B787-9 aircraft. Capacity will be seven pallets and up to 16 tonnes of lift on each flight in a fully air-conditioned hold.
The new service ...
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TNT has launched a scheduled road connection from Europe to Georgia. A new line haul will connect Georgia’s capital Tbilisi with TNT’s European Road Network (ERN) via Istanbul, to over 40 European countries. TNT says it will offer competitive prices and transit times for parcels and palletised freight as well ...
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Air Charter Service is celebrating 25 years since chairman Chris Leach and his wife Tina founded the company in the basement of their family home in south west London.
Chris Leach, who worked as a cargo aircraft loadmaster as well as for freight forwarder Savino Del Bene, started the business ...
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The Stifel Logistics Confidence Index suffered its fourth consecutive month of decline in September. It reached its lowest point in 26 months, and also recorded its fastest pace of decline While the Index, at 51.5, remains above the neutral 50 mark, times may be gloomier that the numbers alone suggest, ...
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Scottish freight and logistics company Bullet Express has appointed Bob Oliver as international sales manager. He will further expand the company's business at East Kilbride, where Bullet recently opened a four-acre storage facility to provide storage, pick and pack and container de stuffing.
Bob Oliver brings over 30 years international ...
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European forwarders' association CLECAT and the European Shippers’ Council (ESC) have written to the European Commission to warning of a potential lack of capacity for international freight trains on major routes. The associations urge Member States to give priority to international freight trains in order to ensure the proper functioning ...
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DB Schenker Logistics and the GLS Group have signed a non-exclusive cooperation partnership agreement under which the German forwarder will offer a Europe-wide parcel service and GLS will expand its freight services.
GLS, which is active throughout Europe, will deliver parcels for the DB subsidiary while the latter will ...
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