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Freight forwarders, logistics companies and other transport operators doing business in Russia must understand fully their liabilities in delivering freight in the country, warns insurers, the TT Club.
A seminar at the recent conference on transport and logistics, Trans Russia in Moscow - led by TT Club’s general manager, EMEA, Kevin King and Kirill Berezov from the insurer’s long-established Russian network partner Panditrans – was told that increasingly transport operators ...
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Scandinavian Shipping & Logistics and Kestrel Liner Agencies/Tropical Shipping are to extend their cooperation to Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. SSL already acts as representative agent for Kestrel and Tropical in Sweden, Norway and Finland.
Tropical Shipping specialise in services to and from the Americas, with offices throughout both North and ...
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Drinks forwarding specialist JF Hillebrand has opened a new wine and beverages facility in Piacenza, northern Italy. Located 5km from Piacenza rail terminal, and close to all major highways, the 2,860sq m warehouse includes a sq m temperature controlled zone and a 1,100sq m insulated area. It is fully insured, ...
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Whistl - the TNT Post are of the former express operator - has suspended its delivery services in London, Liverpool and Manchester and is consulting with 2,000 workers on redundancy after it lost the backing of investment partner LDC. Whistl will continue to provide a service, but will use Royal ...
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Toll Holdings Limited shareholders will hold an Extraordinary General Meeting in Melbourne on Wednesday 13 May at 10am to vote on the proposed offer by Japan Post to acquire the company. The results of the vote will be announced later that day.
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Within hours of David Cameron being confirmed as the next prime minister, the Freight Transport Association urged him and his new Government to recognise the importance of logistics in keeping the people of Britain supplied with essential goods they need.
FTA director of policy, Karen Dee, said that policies “must ensure ...
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Yusen Logistics has provided free transport of food for Peoples' Hope Japan's Maternal and Child Health Improvement project in poverty-stricken areas of Cambodia. Yusen Logistics made export arrangements in Japan and then forwarded 4,800 nutritional bars donated by Otsuka Pharmaceutical by air from Narita to Cambodia, as well as import ...
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The wooden pallet is seemingly a fixture in the logistics landscape, but could it face a stiff challenge from the Pallite so-called 'paper' pallet? Although pallets made of alternative materials like fibreboard aren't exactly a new idea, Pallite's new design, made from recycled paper, Kraft paper and glue, could offer ...
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P&O Ferrymasters is leasing a further 400 trailers from TIP Trailer Services. It follows the first phase of its agreement last September when P&O Ferrymasters agreed a seven-year lease deal with TIP for 200 coilers and 100 huckepack trailers for intermodal rail services between Rotterdam, Zeebrugge and markets in central ...
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The European Commission is considering making infringement of road cabotage rules an offence that could lead to the loss of an operator's good repute, with offenders facing potential disqualification from the industry. The move was announced by the Fotis Karamitsos, land transport director at the Commission's transport directorate, DG MOVE, ...
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