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Not content with being the official logistics supplier to the Glasgow Commonwealth Games, DB Schenker is also playing a similar role for a competition that many consider the ‘Olympics of Beer’. Every two years, the best brewers in the world enter their finest beers into the World Beer Cup, organised by the Brewers Association. DB Schenker Denver coordinates and consolidates shipments by country or region and ship beer entries and ...
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The Daily Mirror website (www.mirror.co.uk) is carrying a report suggesting that missing Malaysian Airlines flight MH370 may have been brought down by a cargo fire. It quotes former US Federal Aviation Administration head of security Billie Vincent who suggests that the pilots struggled to save their aircraft after a blaze ...
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New chair of the Association of Freight Software Suppliers (AFSS) Gordon Tutt says he is close to signing a memorandum of understanding with pan-European alliance of customs-related service providers, EurTradeNet. Members of both groups will be able to exchange information and collaborate on common issues and concerns within the EU ...
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Web based customs management system provider, e-customs is allowing low volume users to submit customs declarations free of charge on its Webdecs system. A free service is currently available on the Government Gateway but e-customs says it is offering many features which most international traders and businesses would regard as ...
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Street furniture in St Helens had to be dismantled recently to get two massive seven-metre diameter, 7.5 tonne flanges from Lancashire to Hartlepool recently. It also required all the expertise and knowledge of WWL ALS UK International's operations team in Hull. The loads were so wide that they had to ...
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The freight industry welcomed the report by HS2 chairman David Higgins on the planned HS2 north-south high speed rail line, published on 17 March.
Higgins called for the first section of the line to be built from London to Crewe, rather than only from London to Birmingham, as originally envisaged. The ...
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Kintetsu World Express will open a new logistics centre in Prachinburi, eastern Thailand in January 2015. It is clustered with automobile maker plants and various other manufacturing plants in the Rojana Industrial Park. A packaging service plant will open alongside the new logistics centre.
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The story of the “world’s worst football team”, helped to its first victory by sponsorship from Coyne Airways, is set to be immortalised in a film released by its wonder coaches, Matt Conrad and Paul Watson.
The Soccermen charts film student Matt and football journalist Paul’s quest to coach Pohnpei, a state team ...
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Lufthansa Cargo’s new Boeing 777F - christened Jambo Kenya or Hello Kenya - landed in Nairobi, Kenya for the first time on 11 March, following a flight from Frankfurt via Johannesburg. On arrival, the freighter was officially christened in the presence of Kenya Airports Authority chairman Professor Mutuma Mugambi, German ...
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International development charity, Transaid, is once again challenging members of the transport industry to swap trucks and trains for bicycles to take part in its annual European cycle ride.
This year fundraisers will set off on a three-day, 340km adventure to Brussels, where they’ll finish the ride in style arriving at ...
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