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Motis, the Irish-based freight services specialist that took over the Freight Services Agency and truckstop in the Port of Dover in 2012, is investing £1million to develop the site. Cargo handling facilities are being upgraded to include ambient, frozen and chilled storage and transhipment. Safety and security is being further enhanced with 1km of new fencing, upgraded ANPR and additional CCTV equipment. The work also includes new toilets, showers, launderette, ...
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CEVA Logistics is moving to new premises in Vancouver, Canada. The new location is near the International Airport as well as the country's largest port. The 53,000sq ft (4,941sq m) facility also offers many more dock doors, trailer parking space, additional container storage fspace and 2,500 racking locations.
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IAG Cargo is joining other carriers, including Emirates, Qatar Airways and SAS in rolling up fuel surcharges into an all-in rate, from the summer. It will apply to all markets except Hong Kong, South Korea and Japan, where local regulations on surcharges apply. These countries are Hong Kong, South Korea ...
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DHL is investing €114 million in its hub at Brussels Airport, originally opened in 1985. The scheme will triple capacity from 12,000 to 39,500 shipments per hour with modern sorting technology and is expected to create 200 new jobs by 2020. The original Brussels facility was set up in 1985 ...
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Panalpina is to operate a wet-leased 747-8F freighter on its transatlantic route, which includes calls in Mexico and the UK. It comes as part of a new five-year agreement under which the forwarder with Atlas Air, under which Panalpina will switch one of its wet-leased aircraft to more than 200 ...
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Freight forwarder and logistics company Norbert Dentressangle has extended its Hong Kong to Paris service to include three airfreight consolidations per week into the UK. It has secured block space agreements with a number of airlines. Transit time is two days to Heathrow and Manchester. The company also offers a daily ...
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Prospective parliamentary candidate for Richmond, North Yorkshire, Rishi Sunak, officially opened North East logistics company AV Dawson's new 102,000sq ft, £6.5m steel store in Middlesbrough on 11 February. The facility is the third and final phase of a £12.5m growth plan, part-financed with £1.2m from the Government’s Regional Growth Fund. ...
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Air charter specialist Chapman Freeborn and logistics partners GAC Norway and POLOG have delivered a prefabricated Arctic research station to northern Greenland on 17 Antonov AN-12 charter flights from Longyearbyen, Norway.
Just 924 km (574 miles) from the North Pole, the scientific outpost can only reached by air by air. ...
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The Ghana Shippers' Authority is set to implement an Advance Shipment Information System (ASHI) from 1 March, reports BIFA in its latest newsletter. Shipping lines will have to state the ASHI number on the bill of lading and cargo manifest; cargoes not covered by a valid ASHI will not be ...
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Midlands Anglo-Benelux freight specialist Twente Express has appointed Matthew Verrall as its new commercial director. He joins the company with 20 years of experience in the international freight industry, most recently as UK sales and marketing manager of Aramex.
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