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Updated: DHL expands express road system

DHL Freight has expanded its Eurapid service with 11 new terminals joining the network at the beginning of May. The are new stations at Coalville in the UK (in addition to the existing UK station in London), Austria, Czech Republic, Denmark, Italy, Netherlands, Poland, Spain and Switzerland and two new stations in Germany – Worms and Renningen. The day-definite service for less-than-truckload shipments up to 2.5 tons is now available ... [+]

Chilling out in Scotland

Nagel Group company Nagel Langdon has moved its Scottish operations from a shared user site in Shieldhall, Glasgow to its own depot at Eurocentral Business Park near Motherwell. In January the chilled logistics specialist announced the purchase of a 10.22 acre site at Eurocentral and, following conversion work, started operations on ... [+]

TNT opens East Yorks depot

TNT Express has opened a new depot in Howden in the East Riding of Yorkshire. It will help the carrier offer later cut-off times and collections in Yorkshire, Lincolnshire, Humberside and the North East of England. [+]

Women in Logistics shortlist revealed

The nine individuals and two companies in the running for awards at the Women in Logistics annual conference and awards have been unveiled. The winners will be revealed at a ceremony in Warwickshire on the evening of Friday June 27, in the company of the judges Professor Richard Wilding and Ruth ... [+]

A tall order for DHL

DHL Global Forwarding moved Jengo the giraffe from Liege, Belgium, to his new home at the Ramat Gan Safari in Tel Aviv, Israel on 22 May. He will be joining a new herd for a breeding program. [+]

Logwin buys out India partners

Luxembourg-based international logistics service provider Logwin has become the sole owner of Logwin Air & Ocean India after it acquired all the shares of the previous minority shareholders in its national organisation there. Since its launch in 2009, Logwin has increased the original five locations to 12 and is low ... [+]

Etihad to Entebbe

Etihad Cargo will start a new weekly freighter flight from its Abu Dhabi to Entebbe, Uganda, on 26 May. The service will operate every Monday using a 64-tonne capacity Airbus A330-200F, with a capacity of 64 tonnes. Etihad Cargo expects the service to carry large quantities of electronics and textiles ... [+]

Cargolux VP resigns

Cargolux senior vice president and head of Asia and Pacific, Robert Song has resigned – but is in discussion about “a mutually satisfactory consultancy agreement to support the implementation of the dual hub strategy between Cargolux and its new shareholder, China-based HNCA.” President and chief executive officer, Dirk Reich, said: ... [+]

Good truck guide

The International Road Transport Union (IRU) and the International Transport Forum (ITF) have publiished the 2014 European Conference of Ministers of Transport (ECMT) Multilateral Quota User Guide. It lists all documents required on board a vehicle when making transport operations under an ECMT multilateral licence, as well as other key ... [+]

Delta and Virgin to swap flights

Delta Air Lines and Virgin Atlantic Airways are to swap flights between London-Heathrow to Atlanta Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport and from Heathrow to Los Angeles International Airport this winter. The US carrier will begin operating one of two daily Heathrow-Los Angeles flights currently operated by Virgin Atlantic, while Virgin Atlantic will ... [+]

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