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Thomas Cook Airlines is to launch twice-weekly flights from Manchester to Los Angeles and from Manchester to Boston next year (2016), on 2 May and 30 May respectively. They will be operated by A330-200 aircraft.
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Direct Ferries has revamped its website (www.directferries.co.uk) offering access to 91 ferry companies (and Eurotunnel), 1,,542 routes and over 355 ports. It includes a comprehensive list of ports and detailed information on routes and destinations, allowing users to find the cheapest and most direct ferry crossing for routes all over ...
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CMA CGM’s largest vessel passed through the Suez Canal for the first time on 2 May. Suez Canal Authority chairman, Admiral Mohab Mameesh, boarded the 17,722teu CMA CGM Kerguelen to mark the occasion. The canal is in the midst of an upgrade programme that will allow it to regularly handle ...
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Air Charter Service is to invest heavily in its on board courier division, including now have invested in a dedicated operations office in Frankfurt. It has also hired industry specialists and has updated more than 35 visas for countries that it was not previously able to fly to at a ...
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The Port of Felixstowe has commissioned two new rail mounted gantry cranes at its North Rail Terminal. The Leibherr machines have been co-financed by the European Union Trans-European Transport Network (TEN-T) programme and bring Felixstowe’s total to nine rail cranes serving 16 tracks at its three terminals, making it the ...
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The US Government has lifted a ban on shipping services to Cuba and ferry services from Florida could be reintroduced for the first time in over 50 years, the BBC reports.
Services between the two countries were halted by the US trade embargo on Cuba in 1960 but, with the restoration ...
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Manchester-based Ital Logistics has recruited John Bowes, previously of Kuehne & Nagel, to its sales force. Ital's managing director, Phil Denton, said the company – which moved in December to new premises in Heywood - had made “exceptional progress in recent years...With this in mind, and to maintain momentum, I ...
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Swiss construction toy maker Geomagworld has appointed Import Services to provide logistics support for its UK and Ireland expansion. Import Services, which currently operates in Southampton but will also run the new London Gateway common user facility due to open this month, will help the company switch from a UK ...
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The 24 finalists for the 2015 FTA everywoman in Transport & Logistics Awards have been announced. The Awards, established eight years ago, and by championing women already excelling in the industry, hope to encourage more into the sector, to plug the skills-gap and ensure a more diverse, population-representative workforce.
Names of ...
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Specialist forwarder and logistics company GAC has opened a new quayside office in Great Yarmouth to meet the needs of the renewable energy sector in the Southern North Sea. Along with neighbouring Lowestoft, Great Yarmouth has England's largest concentration of offshore energy businesses and has been identified as being one ...
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