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DFDS Seaways is now operating the ferry Seven Sisters on its the Portsmouth-Le Havre route, following the end of the charter period of Norman Voyager. Seven Sisters, which is branded Transmanche is currently the back-up vessel on DFDS Seaway’s service between Newhaven and Dieppe. The latter will continue to operate two sailings a day with sister ship, the Côte D’Albatre.
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US-based minority-certified global transportation and logistics firm, Walker SCM, is expanding into Europe with the launch of Walker International (Transportation) Netherlands in Amsterdam. It will offer air and ocean freight distribution and customs clearance services from a single location at Amsterdam Schiphol Airport.
Industry veteran, Edwin Koopman, formerly at IJS Global, will ...
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Europa Worldwide Logistics has appointed Angus Hind as its new national air and sea freight sales manager. Miles O’Donnell will be based at the forwarder’s Birmingham and moves from his current role as branch manager for Europa’s Leeds office.
A graduate of Leeds Metropolitan University, he started his logistics career at ...
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Airfreight and express wholesaler AMI says that its policy of supporting local departures whenever possible has boosted its direct exports via Manchester Airport to 75% of its total from the area. It also achieved later cut-offs and saved 100,000 truck miles per year.
It says that it is common practice in ...
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The shift to ocean freight is costing the air cargo sector almost 2% a year’s worth of annual growth, according to research by Seabury Group and the International Air Transport Association (IATA).
The study by the advisory services firm showed that air freight’s share of total global containerised or unitised cargo ...
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Manston airport set to close
Manston airport in South-east England is set to close, a few months after being acquired by the Gloag Foundation from its previous owner, Infratil, for £1 last October. The 144 employees affected were told on 19 March that a statutory 45-day consultation period would begin from ...
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Former Scunthorpe United, Liverpool and England star Kevin Keegan will be a guest of DP World London Gateway at this year's Multimodal freight and logistics exhibition in Birmingham from 29 April – 1 May.
Kevin Keegan will be the special guest at DP World London Gateway’s VIP dinner at the Motorcycle ...
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The Global Shippers’ Forum called for a full investigation of the proposed P3 shipping alliance’s impact on price and service of the at its third annual meeting in Los Angeles on 18 March.
UK-headquartered GSF is urging US Federal Maritime Commission (FMC) and the European Commission to take steps to ensure ...
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US Airways Cargo has joined American Airlines Cargo's operations at New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport (JFK), in the first stage of a programme to co-locate operations across the combined network, While the two carriers continue to operate independently, the co-located facility allows American and US Airways customers to ...
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Air Charter Service is to open a new office in Houston, Texas in May. It will cater particularly to the oil and gas industry under the leadership of current New York office cargo sales manager, Dustin Roades.
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