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Emirates SkyCargo has taken delivery of a tenth Boeing 777 Freighter aircraft, ahead of the move of its freighter operations to Dubai World Central’s Al Maktoum International Airport in May 2014. The aircraft is capable of carrying 103 tonnes of cargo and its main cargo deck is the widest of any freighter aircraft at 3.7 metres.
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French ferry operator LD Lines is to introduce a new freight and passenger service between Poole and Santander in Northern Spain from 3 November.
LD Lines, which already runs a service from Saint Nazaire, south of Brittany and Gijón in Northern Spain, described it as a major development in the creation ...
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The Port of London Authority has appointed Robin Mortimer as chief executive, succeeding Richard Everitt, who has held the position since December 2004. Robin Mortimer will join the PLA in March 2014. He is currently a director in the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs where he led the ...
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Panalpina said on 23 October that it had entered into a preliminary agreement to settle a US class lawsuit filed in 2008 over anticompetitive practices on freight surcharges. The forwarder has agreed to pay US$35 million, which includes previously received proceeds of USD 5.8 million, in an unrelated class action ...
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P3 plans revealed
CMA CGM has revealed details of its planned P3 network that it plans to set up with its new partners Maersk and MSC. Claiming the most comprehensive network on the three main East West Trades, there will be 13 weekly services on the Asia-Europe/Mediterranean trades, five weekly Transatlanticservices ...
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Renfrew-based Link Transport & Warehousing, a sister company of forwarder Air Sea Scotland – one of the largest independent freight forwarders in the country, has joined the Pall-Ex freight network to cover part of the G and PA postcode areas. Link Transport & Warehousing was founded in 2005 and is ...
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The European Commission unveiled plans on 23 October to standardise VAT returns across the Union from 2017. Under its plans, there would be five mandatory information boxes to be completed (chargeable VAT, deductible VAT, net VAT amount, total value of input transactions and total value of output transactions) although member ...
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Forwarders that provide involved logistics services such as warehousing and distribution, procurement of additional product for sub-assembly and packaging and even software uploading are opening themselves up to more extended liability, insurers the TT Club told a workshop organised by the UAE’s National Association of Forwarding and Logistics (NAFL) in ...
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Forwarding and logistics group Charles Gee has gone into administration – barely a year after celebrating its 125th anniversary in 2012. The company cited cash flow problems for the decision to call in administrators from FRP Advisory, which will continue to manage the company's day to day operations while a ...
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Schenker Limited, the UK arm of DB Schenker Logistics, has welcomed 13 more young people to its National Apprenticeship programme – its fourth intake since the programme started in 2010. The new group will be based from a variety of locations in the UK and will undertake a two year ...
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