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The British International Freight Association (BIFA) has named Robert Keen as its new director general to succeed Peter Quantrill who retires from the trade association in August.
Mr Keen joined the industry in 1970 and worked for a succession of forwarders before joining BIFA in 1999. He was appointed an executive director in 2009.
He is also chairman of the FIATA Multimodal Institute and a member of FIATA's extended board; vice chairman ...
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Palletforce has launched 48-hour delivery and import services to and from Norway, Sweden, Denmark and Finland. The pallet delivery network already has similar services with Germany, Italy, Benelux, France, Spain and Portugal.
The Scandinavian services will be operated by Palletforce member Aeroship, part of the Leman Nordic Group.
Palletforce CEO Michael Conroy ...
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Associated British Ports (ABP) Humber has appointed Mark Frith as port manager Hull and Goole.
His appointment is part of a restructure for ABP on the Humber, which recently saw the four ports of Hull, Goole, Grimsby, and Immingham brought under one directorate.
He joins the company after a career in logistics ...
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A new independent report says that Associated British Ports' (ABP) Port of Southampton contributes £990 million to the UK economy every year, including £714 million for the Solent region. Consultants Arup added that the port supports 14,730 jobs.
Investments of over £100 million in the past five years with a further ...
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Two employees from Schenker - Official Logistics Provider for the XX Commonwealth Games in Glasgow - took part in the Queen’s Baton Relay on 16 July, following nominations for their involvement in community sports.
Lorin McCrystal, chairperson of the London Borough of Hounslow Swimming Club, was nominated by her colleague Kimberley ...
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Peel Ports has appointed Patrick Walters as group commercial director. One of the leading commercial executives in the UK ports industry, having held positions in P&O Ports, DP World and Associated British Ports.
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Associated British Ports (ABP) has protested to the Welsh government that plans for a new M4 relief road through Newport would severely curtail its operations at Wales' largest general cargo port. The BBC reported ABP's Matthew Kennerley as saying that the motorway scheme would eat into the port's land reserves ...
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Wallenius Wilhelmsen Logistics (WWL) said that the Port of Tyne could easily be added to its Asia to Europe schedule if there is continued demand, after the ro ro logistics specialist recently completed a shipment there. WWL brought a shipment of construction equipment into Tyne on its MV Tristan on ...
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Rugby-based Exact Logistics has joined the Pall-Ex network, covering part of the CV postcode. Also joining the network are Heathfield-based Independent Logistic Solutions and trucklink.eu, in Ashby de la Zouch, taking the TN and NN postcodes respectively.
Pall-Ex’s UK network director, Steve Reed, said: “As Pall-Ex is continuing its expansion across ...
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Europa Showfreight recently helped bring the first of a prototype Bell 505 Jet Ranger X helicopter to the UK. The exhibition arm of the UK-based forwarder helped prepare the craft on its arrival from the EBACE show in Geneva for at the Heli UK Expo trade show at Sywell Aerodrome ...
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