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Sue Terpilowski, managing director of maritime, ports and logistics public relations specialist, Image Line Communications, has been awarded an OBE in the Queen’s Birthday Honours List for services to small businesses. She is also London policy chair for the Federation of Small Businesses (FSB) and is a board member on the London Enterprise Panel.
She said: “I was completely overwhelmed when I first heard that I would be receiving an OBE. ...
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The UK Government is challenging an EU regulation that it says requires it spend money developing a rail freight corridor to Scotland. The Department for Transport has asked the EU Court of Justice (ECJ) to annul an amendment in the Connecting Europe Facility (CEF), which obliges London to invest in ...
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Logistics company Aramex has acquired of Mail Call Couriers, a leading courier service in metro express deliveries in Australia. Founded in 1982, Mail Call offers e-commerce solutions in the Australian logistics market, including its ‘WantItNow’ delivery solution with count-down technology and three-hour and evening e-commerce delivery offerings. Australia is now ...
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Freight management network, The WACO System has added WorldNet Logistics (Mocambique) and WorldNet Logistics (Namibia) as new members. WorldNet Logistics has eight staff operating from its office in Mozambique’s capital city Maputo. WorldNet Logistics (Namibia) (Pty) Ltd operates a warehouse and a fleet of over 150 outsourced vehicles with offices ...
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Online intermodal brokers, FreightArranger has added new routes between Southampton and Manchester, and Southampton and Leeds. The trains run on all working days, with afternoon loading cut-offs allowing next-day deliveries and can accept high cube (9' 6" high) ISO containers and swapbodies up to 2.5 metres wide. There are opportunities ...
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Cargolux Airlines has launched its scheduled 747-8 freighter service between Luxembourg and Zhengzhou on 14 June after obtaining the necessary permits from the Chinese authorities. Delays in getting authorisation led to the cancellation of the inaugural flight initially planned for 24 April. The new service will initially operate twice weekly, ...
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The Transported Asset Protection Association (TAPA) has launched what is says is the most comprehensive supply chain security standards for facilities and trucking in its 17-year history, to combat increasingly sophisticated thefts by organised criminal gangs.
The new 2014 versions of the Association’s Facility Security Requirements (FSR) and Trucking Security Requirements ...
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Rugby-based Exact Logistics has celebrated its fifth birthday by appointing Olivia Godfrey as European sales negotiator. She moves to the palletised freight specialist from her role as account freight manager at the Birmingham office of Kuehne + Nagel.
Her role is to create bespoke solutions by offering a single point of ...
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Etihad Cargo has started a weekly freighter service from Abu Dhabi to Dar es Salaam, Tanzania returning via Nairobi, Kenya. The carrier will deploy one of its three Airbus A330-200 wide-body freighters on the route, offering up to 64 tonnes of capacity.
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FPS Sri Lanka – a founder member of the group of independent forwarders and consolidators - has opened a new office in Galle, 120km south of the country’s capital Colombo. The new branch will act as a satellite of FPS’ main Colombo operations centre, providing multi-modal forwarding, logistics and consolidation ...
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