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DHL has shipped 880 bicycles to to Madagascar for rural community health workers on behalf of Transaid. The international development charity is pioneering a number of projects in the country to help improve people’s access to health facilities. The bicycles, sourced with the help of Transaid’s partner charity Re-Cycle (Bikes to Africa), are part of a programme which helps local health workers reach more patients and have resources for delivering ...
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Colleagues of former train driver turned DB Schenker Rail UK Geoff Spencer got their revenge when one of the company’s drivers nominated him for an ice-bucket challenge. According to a company press release, “the big hearted CEO was only too happy to accept and help raise money for worthy causes” ...
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The Government's Airports Commission is on the verge of finally ruling out Mayor Boris Johnson's plan for an airport in the Thames Estuary to replace Heathrow, according to the Heathrow Hub campaign. It adds that Mr Johnson has already started to subtly change his strategy, suggesting now in a newspaper ...
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Kuehne + Nagel says it has become the first forwarder offer its customers exact carbon emission data instead of estimates. The Global Seafreight Carbon Calculator (GSCC) allows calculations of CO2, SOx and NOx emissions for container and LCL movements from door-to-door and is available on Kuehne + Nagel’s webpage. Built ...
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Norbert Dentressangle has completed the previously announced acquisition of all the shares of privately held US third party logistics provider, Jacobson Companies from Oak Hill Capital Partners, for$750 million (€560 million). Headquartered in Des Moines, IA, Jacobson is one of the largest value-added warehousing 3PL provider in North America.
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The Freight Transport Association is urging operators to take advantage of the last chance to participate in a trail of longer semi-trailers. According to the Department for Transport, 400 freight operator allocations are still available to allow them to use longer vehicles to transport goods on UK roads. The longer ...
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Russell Group's Carntyne Transport subsidiary has opened three new HM Revenue and Customs-approved new cask storage facilities totalling over 100,000sq ft in the past 18 months. The additions come after Carntyne, one of the largest logistics providers to the Scottish whisky industry, outgrew its current storage facilities and made the ...
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The new Liverpool2 container terminal will boost Merseyside employment by around 5,000 jobs, says Peel Ports. Two-thirds of the direct jobs are expected to be taken by people living within a ten mile radius of the port, and will include full- and part-time opportunities for stevedores, pilots, launch crew, line ...
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The capacity some airlines are bringing onto the main markets is driving airfreight yields down to a level that will be unsustainable for many operators, warned Virgin Atlantic's director of cargo, John Lloyd. Yields in the first half of the year were flat in the Europe, Middle East and Africa ...
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Air Partner says it has delivered 400 tonnes of aid to Iraq and the figure is expected to increase. Over the past two weeks, Air Partner has chartered nine flights - six from the UAE, one from Cyprus and two from East Midlands to Iraq using Airbus A300 and A310 ...
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