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Express airfreight wholesaler AMI has opened two new offices Down Under. AMI Darwin, located in the capital of Australia’s Northern Territories, has been opened in response to major energy projects in the area, including the AUS$34-billion Ichthy’s LNG project being developed by Inpex.
In Christchurch, New Zealand, AMI has opened a new base as a satellite to its existing office in Auckland. AMI Christchurch will offer global export and import consolidations ...
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West Midlands Euro MP Phil Bennion visited Exact Logistics in Rugby as part of a fact-finding mission to listen to experiences of trading in the European Union and to see their operation in more detail. The MEP, who is Liberal Democrat Employment and Transport spokesman in the European Parliament, met ...
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Yusen Logistics is seeing major growth in temperature controlled pharmaceutical volumes to and from Japan and Oceania, as well as international cross trade products. Volumes for 2013/14 are up 73% on the previous year, says the NYK Group forwarder.
API manufacturers (Active Pharmaceutical Ingredient) are increasingly looking to Yusen Logistics to ...
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Chinese President Xi Jinping, accompanied by the German Vice Chancellor Siegmar Gabriel and Hannelore Kraft, Prime Minister of North Rhine Westphalia, visited the Port of Duisburg and its logistics hub logport on 29 March. The delegation welcomed the arrival of the Yuxinou Train from Chongqing. The Chinese president was on ...
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Three apprentices at The Bristol Port Company have been awarded the UK’s first ever qualifications in Stevedoring Essentials, as well as qualifying in Port Operations, only three years after starting out.
Antony Savill, George Colgan and William Lansdown all started their Apprenticeships at Bristol Port in April 2011 and are the ...
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The Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport is the primary contact point for all UK-based activities for the first-ever European Supply Chain Day, on 10 April. Supply Chain Day events will be held on the same day across Europe and aim to raise awareness of the logistics and supply chain ...
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Essex-based freight form Simarco says that a recovery in UK exports has helped it to record sales figures during the last financial year. Turnover rose by just over 10% to £26.5 million. Managing director, Simon Reed, said that much of additional business had been generated in the last six months ...
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Shipping Minister Stephen Hammond will visit Dover on 9 April to make a major announcement on the 'People's Port' plan to sell the Trust Port to a consortium of local interests, reports the Dover Express website. The website quotes an 'industry insider' who says that the announcement is likely to ...
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Kaalbye Shipping International has refuted reports by Washington-based think tank C4ADS and in the Washington Post that it had illegally shipped cargo to Syria and deliberately disabled ship transponder systems. The company, which operates a fleet of eight general cargo, ro ro and container vessels of around 8,000dwt, said that ...
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DHL Global Forwarding is to form a new strategic partnership to develop rail services on the China-Europe route with United Transport and Logistics Company (UTLC). UTLC, which is expected to be established later in 2014, will be a joint-venture partnership between Russian Railways, Kazakhstan rail operator Temir Zholy and Belarusian ...
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