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Scandinavian low-cost carrier Norwegian could face an obstacle in its bid to develop transatlantic flights. US pilot groups and some US airlines have accused the carrier of 'social dumping' by incorporating an affiliate company in Ireland and recruiting and domiciling its pilots in Asia. The issue is currently being discussed by US and EU officials in Washington. Norwegian strated flights between New York and Oslo and Stockholm last year and ...
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GEFCO UK moved 18 motorcycles, dating from the 1920s and 1930s, from Coventry Transport Museum to the recent Motorcycle Live event at Birmingham NEC. The bikes were collected and returned in specially designed cradles.
The museum's curator of vehicles, Chris van Schaardenburgh, said: “Thanks to all those involved at GEFCO, we ...
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The Port of Dover has posted its best year-end traffic figures for freight since 2009, after rising 13% in 2013. The port handled over 2.2 million freight vehicles, along with almost 12.8m passengers, itself an increase of 7%.
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Plane-make Airbus has renewed its Lead Logistics Provider contract with Kuehne + Nagel until 2016. KN will continue to manage Airbus’ entire production logistics in the UK, France, Germany, Spain and China for all aircraft programmes.The forwarder has recently taken over tasks not directly related to Airbus’ core business such ...
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TNT Express has completed a £4.3m expansion of its Park Royal depot, near Wembley. It will increase capacity at the depot, which already handles nearly 40,000 items per week by over 50%, with 15 extra loading bays and over 1200 sq m of warehouse and vehicle yard space.
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The 6 January deadline for appeals against the the UK Competition Appeal Tribunal's judgement on Eurotunnel’s purchase of SeaFrance ferries handed down on 4 December – with no such appeals having been received.
In December, the Tribunal threw out an earlier decision by the Competition Commission to ban Eurotunnel subsidiary MyFerryLink ...
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Short-sea shipping and logistics specialist OPDR (Oldenburg-Portugiesische Dampfschiffs-Rhederei) will include a further two calls per week on its CISS Canary Island Services to Tilbury from mid-January. It follows the agreement in November last year for Tilbury's London Container Terminal to handle over 200 calls a year for OPDR services on ...
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Van der Vlist recently moved two 15-ton silos and three truckloads of parts from central Europe to Saratov in South-western Russia. While the tilt-trucks of parts drove straight through to the destination, the 18m long silos moved 1000km by road to the North of Germany for loading onto a ferry ...
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Scandinavian forwarder Greencarrier Shipping & Logistics is expanding its services to the oil and gas industry, appointing a new head of the energy and projects business unit and opening an office in Stavanger, Norway. The company has identified project forwarding and the energy industry as two of its main target ...
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