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FL Technics is to expand its London-based aircraft spare parts stock and reduce the time of delivery by half under a new deal with specialist logistics company B&H Worldwide. FL Technics, whose main warehouse is in Lithuania, manages a wide range of aircraft spare part stock in the UK, Malaysia, Poland, Russia and the US. The extended London based stock will include up to 1500 parts for Airbus A320, Boeing ...
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The European Shippers’ Council has urged the European Commission to take action to stop Turkey from levying additional customs duties on goods entering from the European Union, which it says violates the customs union signed in 1995. ESC says that Turkey has imposed duties on footwear, textile, chemicals, pharmaceutical products, ...
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Jochen Thewes is to be Schenker AG's new chairman of the board of management, from 1 September . An internationally recognized supply chain and logistics expert, he has since 2011 been the forwarder and logistics giant's chief executive officer in Singapore. Prior to that, he was senior vice president global ...
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Container service operator Pentalver has opened the first phase of its new five acre site at DP World London Gateway. The new yard, next to the port’s main gate, can be expanded to nine acres over the coming years.
Pentalver, a subsidary of the AP Moller Group, has been providing empty ...
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A Competition Commission of South Africa investigation into the car carrier trade in 1999 to September 2012, and which concluded that Wallenius Wilhwelmsen Lines had engaged in prohibited practices, has now been referred to the Competition Tribunal of South Africa for trial. If confirmed, WWL would pay a fine of ...
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ICHCA International will hold a one-day seminar entitled: ‘Container Weight Verification: Regulation to Implementation’ in London on 11 September to discuss how the new IMO rules can be implemented and enforced with minimum disruption to container logistics chains. Hosted at the London offices of international law firm Holman Fenwick Willan ...
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US global forwarder MIQ Logistics has gain new UK business with British casualwear brand, Crew Clothing and children’s TV channel Nickelodeon. Nickelodeon and Crew Clothing have both appointed MIQ Logistics. The forwarder, whose main UK base is at Egham, Surrey, will support their global supply chains including, in the case ...
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Thailand’s second largest air forwarder, Trans Air Cargo Co Ltd (TAC) says it is now sending 400 to 500 air waybills per month electronically, following the start of its transformation programme in the spring. It is using specialist technology firm WIN to transmit electronic master and house AWB data to ...
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Airfreight handler Worldwide Flight Services (WFS) is to extend its footprint at Heathrow after it a new ten-year lease on a 82,400sq ft airside unit at B549 Shoreham Road. It follows the announcement in March 2015 of a lease on the 150,000sq ft Building 550, giving WFS nearly 400,000sq ft ...
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The European Commission said on 31 July that it had started a Phase II review of FedEx's intended public offer to buy TNT Express. It says that this is the next step in its analysis before coming to a decision. The transaction is also being reviewed by other antitrust agencies, ...
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