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Gordon Tutt (right) has taken over from Ken Gower (left) as the chair of the Association of Freight Software Suppliers (AFSS). He is only the third chair for the AFSS; Brian Friday was the original holder when the Association was formed in 1993. Ken Gower has been chairman of the AFSS for the past eight years.
The Association brings together and represents nearly 30 of the leading suppliers of software to ...
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NordiKmaritime is offering inducement calls at Tilbury as well as other North European ports to its project and break-bulk shipping service between Bilbao and Esbjerg. It also calls at Nantes, Antwerp, Rotterdam, Zeebrugge Bremen and Hamburg, as well as other Baltic and North Sea destinations, using flexible single hold vessels ...
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Manchester Airport welcomed its first Cathay Pacific 747-8 Freighter from Hong Kong on 19 December. The new aircraft will fly regularly on the Manchester to Hong Kong route and can carry over 130 tonnes of cargo.
Manchester Airports Group (MAG)'s commercial director for cargo, Graeme Ferguson, said: “This aircraft offers greater ...
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Andrea Metzger has been appointed managing director of Geodis Logistics Northern Europe, which includes Ireland, Belgium, Germany and the Netherlands. She was latterly MD of Geodis Logistics in Germany.
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FedEx Express has appointed Trevor Hoyle as vice-president operations for the UK & Ireland. He was formerly managing director ground operations UK & Ireland, and his appointment follows the recent announcement that David Binks will become regional president, FedEx Express, EMEA and Michael Holt will be promoted to senior vice ...
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The 4,500teu Maersk Copenhagen became the biggest ship to visit the eastern Nigerian port of Onne in Port Harcourt on 3 December when she called at APM Terminals’ West Africa Container Terminal (WACT). It was a trial stop for Maersk Line’s weekly Far East-West Africa (FEW2) service, which is comprised ...
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Staff at UPS Parcels Camden depot in north London have called off their strike scheduled for Friday 20 December, after it was agreed that the conciliation service Acas would broker talks in the New Year over workloads and alleged bullying. A sacked steward for the Unite union has also been ...
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A Panalpina 747-8 freighter has flown 100 tons of desperately-needed relief goods free of charge to the Central African Republic on 18 December. This shipment was organised in partnership with the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) from Luxembourg into Bangui. Instead of giving Christmas gifts to its customers and employees ...
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GB Railfreight has confirmed a three-year extension to its contract with Mediterranean Shipping Company UK, until January 2017. The previous five-year contact was due to expire in February 2014. The rail firm will continue to run three daily services for MSC UK from the Port of Felixstowe: two to Hams ...
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IAG Cargo has expanded its Constant Climate premium network for precision temperature controlled pharmaceutical goods network to five new European airports; Prague, Vienna, Las Palmas, Basel and Zurich, plus Dubai. The joint British Airways-Iberia cargo carrier now has 91 Constant Climate centres covering most of the world's major manufacturing regions.
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