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DHL Express will double the area of its main European hub in Leipzig, Germany. A €150 million scheme - bringing DHL’s total investment in its Leipzig hub to date to over €510m - will add around 40 000m² of additional warehousing and offices and a new shipment sorting system will increase processing capacity by 50%, to over 150 000 shipments per hour. Work will begin in December 2013 and the ...
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Two of the largest US carriers have merged, with the completion of the deal between AMR Corporation – owners of American Airways - and US Airways Group. The new American Airlines will have a network with nearly 6,700 daily flights to more than 330 destinations in more than 50 countries ...
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CMA CGM Group will make a major reorganisation of its services between North Europe, the Med and West Africa from mid-December including the addition of UK and Nigeria calls on its PC Weekly service. The seven 3,500teu vessels on the service will call at vessels of 3, 500 teu Tilbury ...
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The World Trade Organization has agreed a potentially revolutionary trade deal at its summit in bali over the weekend of 7-8 December. In what is billted as the first truly global trade deal sice the WTO replaced the GATT (General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade) organisation in the mid 1990s, ...
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PD Stirling and the ID Meiklam Trust have submitted a planning application to extend the International Railfreight Terminal at Mossend in Central Scotland. The proposed £250m International Railfreight Terminal would add 350 acres to the existing site and allow 775m long trains, with 200,000sq m of warehousing added in a ...
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Spliethoff Group European ro ro subsidiary Transfennica says it plans to add Alfa Laval’s exhaust scrubbers to five of its motor ships. It follows a successful 12-month trial in which one of the largest marine exhaust gas scrubbing systems was installed on the MV Plyca. The new equipment will bring ...
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Lufthansa Cargo has introduced a new tracking service using GSM transponders. The devices have been specifically designed for use on board aircraft and is the first officially certified equipment of its type, which switch off automatically during flight.
Lufthansa Cargo will provide the devices, weighinbg just 50 grams, which shippers can ...
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No, there hasn't been a major disaster at a distribution centre - Potter Logistics lent their Queen Adelaide Way site in Ely to Cambridgeshire firefighters for an exercise on 2 December.
About 25 firefighters in total took part in the evening exercise; the scenario created was a fire in a warehouse ...
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The International Road Transport Union (IRU) has accused Russian Customs of spreading confusion over TIR. While the Customs service had officially announced a stay of execution until 1 July 2014, immediately afterwards it “once again disregarded the TIR Convention by unilaterally issuing, on 2 December 2013, a list of offices ...
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German container shipping line Hapag Lloyd says it has started talks with its Chilean counterpart, CSAV. The discussions concern a “possible business combination” or other form of association but no binding agreement has been signed yet.
Hapag Lloyd had previously been in discussions with fellow German line Hamburg Sud, but without ...
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