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Forwarder DB Schenker will open one of its largest and most modern terminals near Helsinki on 3 June in Finland. At 57 million, it is one of the largest investments that DB Schenker has made and will combine land transport, air, and sea freight in one building housing 650 employees. The 51,000sq m site in the Viinikkala logistics area will offer 32,000sq m of storage, including 28,630 square meters of ...
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Freight forwarder DSV says it is investing in its less-than-containerload (LCL) seafreight services people and processes “to take them to a new level”. Newly appointed director of LCL, Claus Jensen, says he wants to increase the range of LCL services as well as redefine and strengthen procedures.
He says that, until ...
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Sales – and airfreighting - of vinyl records are booming, says Woodland Entertainment, a specialist division of Essex-based specialist publishing forwarder Woodland Group. With the launch of the UK's first weekly vinyl chart by the Official Charts Company in April, director of Woodland Entertainment, Maurizio Piroddi, says: “Despite predictions ...
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GAC Group is opening four new offices in the US - in Atlanta, Detroit, Chicago and Los Angeles. The Houston-headquartered logistics specialist said they would build on its existing foothold in the oil and gas sector as well as further expand its reach in the domestic and international automotive, FMCG, ...
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Developing world logistics specialist Agility is holding a global photo competition to highlight the success of emerging Africa.
The competition seeks to highlight the often unreported side of the continent and calls for photographers to capture an Africa booming with tech-savvy, youthful consumers, fast-paced urbanization, and enormous long-term economic prospects.
CEO ...
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TNT has launched a new air route between its main European air hub in Liege and Malta.
It will operate five times a week on a Boeing 737-400 aircraft, with a stopover in Marseilles outbound and inbound. The flight arrives at Malta International Airport in the morning and departs in ...
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Panalpina is to acquire its Egyptian agent Afifi. The family-owned company specialises in freight forwarding, customs clearance and logistics and has been Panalpina’s agent in Egypt for the last 20 years. Afifi was established in 1936 in Cairo and today employs around 150 staff in offices in Cairo, Alexandria and ...
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Detroit will become Virgin Atlantic Cargo’s eleventh North American destination on 1 June with the start of daily flights to and from London Heathrow. The Airbus A330 flight will offer over 16 tonnes of capacity in both directions. Detroit is Virgin Atlantic’s second new US destination in the last eight ...
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Iarnród Éireann - Irish Rail - the port authority for Rosslare Europort, says it will assess market interest in a third party concession to operate the port. It follows a study by Indecon Consultants for the Department of Transport, Tourism & Sport which examined strategic options, and which recommended that ...
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Neptune Orient Lines says it had completed the sale of its APL Logistics subsidiary to Japanese forwarder Kintetsu World Express, announced on 17 February. All necessary legal, regulatory and shareholder approvals have been obtained, it said.
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