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Rail service between Kenya and the north and northwest of Uganda has been restored after Citadel Capital’s Rift Valley Railways completed the first phase of the rehabilitation of 500 kilometers of track. The route links Kenya with Tororo in Eastern Uganda and Gulu in the north and had been semi-derelict for two decades
The official re-launch of the line in Guluwas attended by Ugandan President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni, Citadel Capital Chairman ...
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The International Road Transport Union reports that Russia's Federal Customs Service of the Russian Federation has further extended its restrictions on TIR guarantees to the North Caucasian and Southern Customs Regions, as well as the airport Customs offices of Sheremetyevo, Domodedovo and Vnukovo.
This was despite a ruling by the country's ...
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The UK's five major rail freight operating companies - DB Schenker Rail UK, Freightliner Group, GB Railfreight, Direct Rail Services and Colas Rail - and infrastructure operator Network Rail have formed the Rail Freight Alliance. Endorsed by the Rail Delivery Group industry grouping, it aims to delivering whole-industry cost savings, ...
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The White Company, one of the UK’s fastest growing multi-channel retailers, has chosen Allport Cargo Services to manage its global sea, air and overland freight movements – and to re-define its supply chain operations to support its international growth plans. ACS group solutions director, Clyde Buntrock, said: “Our LIMA supply ...
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The European Commission has rejected a complaint that an agreement to delay payment of port fees by ferry company TransEuropa to the port of Ramsgate was unauthorised state aid. The action was brought by Thanet Green Party councillor Ian Driver against Thanet District Council, which owes the port. Belgian-owned TransEuropa ...
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Essex-based Alliance Group's US arm, Alliance Pacific Corporation (APC) is to take over Houston-based Embassy Freight (There is no connection with the UK company of the same name). Embassy's clients and services will be fully integrated into APC from 1 January 2014 and former chief executive officer, Steve Winters will ...
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Yorkshire-based Potter Logistics reports increased turnover across all areas of its business the company continues to show profitable organic growth, the company said in its financial results for the year ending April 2013. The business posted a profit before tax of £1.12 million, an increase of 8.5% year on year. ...
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Customs red tape and costly airport charges are hampering airfreight potential, Coyne Airways director told the Caspian Air Cargo Summit in Baku, Azerbaijan on 29 October.
“We sometimes experience a series of frustrating obstacles that make doing business here expensive,” she said. Traffic rights can be an issue and airport costs ...
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Middle East-owned air handling company dnata is to open three new facilities at Gatwick, Birmingham, and Glasgow, in addition to its soon to be unveiled new dnata City, cargo hub at Heathrow. The move brings to five the number of UK airports served by the Dubai-based operator, including that at ...
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The Freight Transport Association says it has headed off a European Commission proposal that could potentially have created conflicting requirements for shippers to weigh containers before shipment.
Under the EU weights and dimensions directive currently under review, the Commission had been proposing new shipper liability provisions for overweight/misdeclared containers which could have led ...
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