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Volga-Dnepr validates first seven ACC3 airports

Volga-Dnepr Airlines has validated the first seven airports under the European Commission's ACC3 aviation security requirements for cargo from non-EU countries. The status has been achieved for New Delhi, India, Al Maktoum and Fujairah in the UAE, Islamabad, Karachi and Lahore in Pakistan, and Ankara in Turkey. It is also in the process of confirming the ACC3 status of Sharjah Airport in the UAE, which will be followed by Cairo, ... [+]

Tilbury gains new link to north-east Spain

JSV Logistic is to launch weekly a container service between the Spanish port of Pasaia and Tilbury's London Container Terminal (LCT) on 23 April. The service will be operated by JSV's FAHER Maritime subsidiary and will also include Antwerp in its rotation. Pasaia is in north-eastern Spain, close to ... [+]

Seafast sails off with Queen’s Award

Felixstowe-based Seafast Logistics has won a Queen’s Award for Enterprise in the field of International Trade - and was the only company in Suffolk to have won the award this year. The company works in some of the most difficult and inaccessible parts of the world, providing tailored strategic solutions ... [+]

TIACA honours father of the LD3

Unit Load Devices (ULD) expert James ‘Jim’ Jackson has been welcomed to The International Air Cargo Association’s (TIACA) Hall of Fame. He is credited with designing the now ubiquitous LD3 airfreight container. He spent 40 years with American Airlines, where he held management roles in line cargo operations, aircraft and ... [+]

Torque gets under the skin of underwear firm

Logistics provider Torque has got together with London-based start up company Nubian Skin - which offers “a carefully edited collection of lingerie and hosiery to provide the essential underwear needs of women of colour.” Torque is providing warehouse and logistics operations for direct customers and wholesale accounts, including freight; e-fulfilment; customs ... [+]

Midlands freight firm offers foot in the door

Lutterworth-based Core Management Logistics (CML) is offering a year long paid placement for an undergraduate in its international freight department. It would be ideally suited to a business student looking to take a gap year or anyone with an interest in sales and/or logistics eager to undertake a year in ... [+]

UASC starts London Gateway calls

United Arab Shipping Company (UASC) has started its previously announced services to London Gateway on its South America 2 service. it is part of an existing fixed day weekly service to ports including Paranagua (Brazil), Buenos Aires (Argentina), Montevideo (Uruguay), Rio Grande (Brazil), Itapoa (Brazil) and Santos (Brazil). [+]

Bradford tops UK export table

Bradford is the UK's top exporting city – followed by Leeds, London, Manchester and Southampton, according to a new survey by FedEx Express. The global parcels and freight carrier has just published a survey – the UK Export Epicentres Report - that questioned 2,500 small and medium-sized firms in manufacturing, technology, ... [+]

Dublin – for Addis Ababa?

Ethiopian Airlines is to move its European hub to Dublin Airport in May. A total of ten transatlantic flights per week will stop at the airport for refuelling only – and in the westbound direction only - en route to destinations in the US and Canada. However, thrice-weekly commercial flights ... [+]

Three cargo heists a day in Europe, says TAPA

Major cargo crimes in Europe are running at an average of three a day with an average loss of over €205,000, according to the Transported Asset Protection Association (TAPA). The association's 2014 Incident Information Service (IIS) Annual Report for the Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) region recorded 1,102 incidents of ... [+]

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