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US Bank is expanding its freight-payment trade finance service into Europe. Through its Brussels-based subsidiary, Elavon Freight Payment, the bank will allow shippers to hold onto their cash longer while accelerating payment to their carriers. This, it says offers carriers a cost-effective alternative to factoring and other financing options commonly used in Europe today. The new trade finance tool is the first solution of its kind on the Continent, adds ...
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Romanian contract logistics specialist, Tibbett Logistics – part of the UK-based Keswick Enterprises Group – has won a new multi-year intermodal logistics contract with Hong Kong-based Metro Group Buying HK, starting in February 2015. Metro Group Buying is the retailer' s non-food purchasing organisation, responsible for the international procurement of ...
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Shropshire-based Rosewood Pets is managing its imports from China through Kerry Logistics' Virtual Buying Office. Kerry Logistics will roll out a buyer's consolidation programme, and implement full purchase order management from Asia, for the pet accessories design, import and distribution business, which supplies products to over 20 countries world-wide.
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Irish independent delivery firm The Nightline Group says that its new facility in Limerick, the largest in the west of the country, will be open in time for the Christmas peak. It will be the third Nightline site to open this year, after the opening of Athlone and Tralee.
Nightline’s CEO ...
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Even Yorkshire folk were impressed when the An225, the world’s largest aircraft, visited Yorkshire's Robin Hood Airport Doncaster Sheffield on an operational cargo mission.
Ukraine-based Antonov Airlines' unique AN-225 Mryia (Dream) landed to collect 150 tonnes of engineering equipment for a transatlantic flight.
Fittingly for England's largest county, the An225, at 275 ...
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Chamber International is holding an import/export training course on 8 December in Leeds designed to help companies learn how beiong an authorised economic operator (AEO) can give competitive advantage and how to get started. It is available for £30 (incl VAT) to eligible companies (normally £495). Visit http://chmbr.co/aeoa or contact ...
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Freight forwarder CEVA Logistics says it has reached 20.4% e-AWB penetration across its global business, making it one of the leaders in paperless airfreight. In September 2014, CEVA also achieved the fastest e-AWB growth of any logistics company.
CEVA signed the IATA multilateral agreement for the use of electronic Air Waybills ...
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Treasury secretary Priti Patel (pictured, driving JCB) officially launched construction of the Port of Tilbury's new London Distribution Park on 25 November. At the turf-cutting ceremony, Perry Glading, chief operating officer at Forth Ports-owned Tilbury also revealed that builders' merchant Travis Perkins would be the Park's first tenants, and are ...
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Delta Air Lines and Virgin Atlantic Airways will introduce a daily flight from London Heathrow to Philadelphia from 8 April 2015 as part of their new joint venture. It will be operated by a Boeing 757-200.
United Airlines is to add a new summer-season service between Dublin and Chicago next year, ...
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App for ocean shipments
Forwarder and consolidator FPS Group has launched a new app for iPhones and Androids that enables members and customers to track and check the status of ocean shipments passing through its network. It can be downloaded from www.fps-group.net/MobileApp.aspx
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