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FedEx Express has completed an expansion of its air cargo hub at Miami International Airport. It will increase capacity and capabilities at the company’s Americas gateway, which connects the US and Canada to Latin America and the Caribbean.
The $72.2 million expansion adds more than 138,000sq ft to the main sort facility, bringing it to over 282,000sq ft. The enhancements include a new customs clearance area and a new 70,000sq ft ...
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APM Terminals has invested US$438 million to upgrade its facility in Apapa, Nigeria’s largest container hub. The investment is the highest of any port terminal operator in the country. It has acquired mobile harbour cranes, rubber tyred gantry cranes, reach stackers, forklifts, terminal trucks, empty handlers and invested in yard ...
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Dietmar Focke, currently vice president engine services at aircraft maintenance operator Lufthansa Technik, has been appointed chief operations and human resources officer at Lufthansa Cargo. He succeeds Harald Gloy, who is leaving the company at his own request.
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Logistics UK crowned broker CharterSync Air Business of the Year at its annual Logistics Awards in London on 9 Decemb (main pictures)er.
The company, founded by two airline pilots, connects urgent charter requests from freight forwarders directly to aircraft operators via an intelligent platform that provides speed and transparency to a ...
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The 2M alliance - Maersk Line and MSC - has removed the Felixstowe call from its AE1 service from the Far East to North Europe, along with the call in Shanghai. The operator said it would improve schedule reliability and was part of a general move to reduce the number ...
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Irish Ferries launched its second ship, the Isle of Innisfree, on its Dover-Calais service on 16 December. A third ship is due to join the fleet in January, upon which the operator will offer up to 30 sailings per day on the route, about every 90 minutes. Dover chief executive ...
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Mitsubishi Group ‘s Yusen Logistics has taken a ten-year lease from Onward Holdings for a refurbished warehouse at Cross Green Industrial Estate in Leeds. It will be the space for vehicle and other spare parts distribution, as well as potentially providing a 3PL service for other East Asian companies based ...
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Freight forwarder Woodland has produced a summary of the changes to import rules and border controls from the EU to Great Britain which will be phased in throughout 2022, from 1 January 2022.
Changes for 1 January 2022 are:
Full import declarations will now be required at the point of entry into ...
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Imperial has added a further 50% to its lithiumn battery handling capacity in Germany, following the award of a major new contract from a car maker. Imperial’s It has taken a lease on an additional 28,000sq m site in Sarstedt near Hanover, in addition to its existing 60,000sq m facility ...
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Suffolk forwarder Darren Ryan is reminding businesses that the option to delay import customs declarations comes to an end on 1 January 2022. The Morrison Freight director strongly urges them to start putting in place procedures to ensure everything runs smoothly.
From the start of 2022, a full and final customs ...
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