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Chief executive of the Humber local enterprise partnership, Kishor Tailor, officially opened a new 40,000sq ft warehouse for Neill & Brown Global Logistics on 4 December 2014. The company said that 14 local businesses have helped develop the £2.5m site at Marfleet Environmental Technology Park.
Peter Brown, CEO of Hessle-based Neill & Brown, said: “We have created a high quality logistics facility for our international customer base using as many local ...
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The BBC reports that parcels delivery company City Link is to make over 85% of its staff redundant, after the firm went into administration on 24 December. The company, sold by previous owners Rentokil Initial to restructuring specialist Better Capital in April 2013, called in administrators Ernst & Young on ...
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Baltic Euro Lines will offer a new liner service between East Coast Sweden, Northern Holland and the Humber from the New Year. A joint venture by Norwegian shipping companies, Seafront Maritime and Kopervik-based Northwest Ship Management, the service will commence operation with one multi-purpose side-port vessel, MV Skog,
with a cargo ...
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Emirates SkyCargo has appointed Henrik Ambak as senior vice president, cargo operations worldwide. The Danish national joins Emirates SkyCargo after having spent the past 27 years in various roles in the air cargo industry, having worked for companies such as Novia, CSLux and Cargolux Airlines. In his new role, he ...
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Etihad Airways operated its inaugural A380 flight from Abu Dhabi International Airport to London Heathrow on 27 December. The carrier plans to deploy its second and third A380s on the London route as well, which will become an all-380 service with three daily flights. It will also serve Sydney and New ...
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CMA CGM is reconfiguring its Europe and Mediterranean to West Africa services into two separate routes, including one calling at London Gateway from 22 January. It will improve reliability and London Gateway will be linked to strategic ports in Nigeria, Ghana, Ivory Coast and Senegal, it says.
The Euraf 1 service ...
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The Global Shippers' Forum (GSF) has welcomed the new EU Commissioner for Competition, Margrethe Vestager's statement that she will keep a ‘close eye’ on container shipping mega-alliances. GSF said it had already called on the European Competition Commission to monitor closely such alliances for compliance with EU competition rules.
GSF secretary ...
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A two-day strike by workers at cargo and ground handling company dnata over a pay deal has been suspended after the company made an improved offer, the Unite said today (22 December). Over 460 Unite members at Heathrow, Gatwick and Manchester airports had been due to start a two-day strike ...
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The Marseille Fos port authority has set out a vision for growth over the four years to 2018 in a strategic plan to position the port as a viable alternative to ports in northern Europe.
Developments costing €360 million target areas of activity with the greatest potential for strong growth and ...
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Emirates is introducing a third daily service from its Dubai hub to Birmingham Airport from 1 August 2015. Operated by a Boeing 777-300ER, it will depart Dubai International Airport at 02.35 and arrive in Birmingham at 07.05. The outbound flight, will depart Birmingham at 09.10 and arrive in Dubai at ...
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