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AMI - the global trade-only freight wholesaler - has started weekend working, and added an additional spot rate specialist to its team, to strengthen its UK import offering.
The imports department now operates on Sundays, preparing import customs entries for submission first thing on Mondays, allowing inbound airfreight shipments to be cleared more quickly and released earlier to the importer's agent at London Heathrow.
Shipments bound for the north and Scotland are ...
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The joint SCS Multiport-CWT service is to increase calls at Tilbury's London Container Terminal to five a week on its service to and from Amsterdam. The service imports bulk building bricks and stone for the UK housing market, and exports large volumes of the waste for Amsterdam power plants. CWT ...
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Mitteldeutsche Airport Holding, owners of Leipzig/Halle Airport, signed a cooperation arrangement will China's Henan Province Airport Group on 8 May. It aims to develop air freight flights together and strengthen their airports as central hubs for the distribution of flows of goods between China and Europe.
Chairman of the Henan ...
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Train operator GB Railfreight has signed a five-year lease with VTG Rail for 18 new Ecofret triple-platform container wagons. Designed to maximise the number of 40’ boxes that can be carried in a given train length, each wagon's outer platforms can carry one 40-foot container each, and the inner platform ...
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Multimodal 2014 was the biggest in the show's seven-year history, with over 290 exhibitors welcoming over 7,100 visitors in Birmingham on 28 April – 1 May, says director, Robert Jervis.
Supply chain executives took part in over 25 workshop and masterclass sessions hosted by over 60 expert speakers, and there ...
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ICHCA International , the NGO association for the global cargo handling industry, will host a CTU (containerised transport unit) Packing Roadshow at Harwich International Cruise Terminal on 3 June. The one-day event will provide practical education on the new IMO/ILO/UNECE Code of Practice for the Packing of Cargo Transport Units ...
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Spring, or even summer may be upon most of us in Europe, but heavy transport specialist Van der Vlist encountered some arctic conditions recently when it made a delivery of a 41-tonne bearing from from Hamburg to a power station in Norway, above the arctic circle. Snow spikes were the ...
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Norbert Dentressangle Overseas, the freight forwarding arm of the French-owned logistics operator, has renewed its contract with tablet and notebook computer and computer motherboard maker, ASUS.
The company appointed ND’s US freight forwarding business, NDO America in 2011, to manage the ocean freight of product from four production facilities in ...
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Logistics and transport specialist Aramex has signed a joint venture with InPost to provide automated parcel lockers across the Middle East and Africa. A network will be set up in all major cities and towns to support the rapidly growing e-commerce industry. Online retailers will be able to send goods ...
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American Airlines Cargo has opened a controlled room temperature (CRT) facility at its
London Heathrow Airport cargo warehouse, the carrier's first in Europe. The new 300-square-foot facility maintains a temperature range of 15 to 25 degrees Celsius and will be used for healthcare shipments such as pharmaceuticals and biologicals.
Managing director of ...
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