Chris Lewis
Along with the usual parcels, pallets, planeloads, and shipping containers, DHL Group delivered some more unusual consignments in 2024.
They included orphaned, disabled chimpanzee Chocolat from Kenya to a new home at the Monkey World Ape Rescue Centre in Dorset, UK in August, from poachers in the Congo who left her with shotgun wounds that paralyzed a hand and foot.
DHL was also licensed to deliver James Bond artefacts from the Czech ...
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Antonov Airlines has collaborated with Vivat Publishing to create a series of illustrated children's books hat aim to support Ukrainian children affected by the war.
The first two books in the "Winged Stories" series are already being printed in Kharkiv. These books, created with the support of Antonov specialists, tell stories ...
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Kuehne+Nagel has opened a 2,000 sq m, GDP-compliant cross-dock facility for healthcare goods in Budapest. It serves as a hub for less-than truckload (LTL) services, complementing the existing facility in Luxembourg and allowing the forwarder to optimise routings and reduce lead times. The Budapest hub provides highly secure and temperature-controlled ...
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The Premier Alliance - Ocean Network Express (ONE), HMM and Yang Ming – has announce details of its inaugural sailings in 2025. It follows the signing of a five year cooperation deal in September 2024. The first sailings will take place on 4 February, including an FP1 service from China ...
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CMA CGM Foundation has started work on France's largest warehouse dedicated to food aid in partnership with five food aid organizations. It offers 5,000sq m of storage space and a capacity for 3,200 tons of food for five local organizations and will supply 330 meal distribution centers in Marseille and ...
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GXO Logistics chief executive Malcolm Wilson is to retire in 2025. He will continue to lead the company during the search process for his successor. Since taking up the role in August 2021, he has led the US-headquartered group’s growth to 130,000 employees and more than 200 million sq ft ...
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Finnish stainless steel firm Outokumpu is to invest €40 million in a biocarbon plant at the German Baltic port of Mukran. The material will be produced from secondary wood raw materials, delivered by rail, using an innovative high-temperature process and will be used to reduce emissions in the steel production ...
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Nine maritime clusters are to share £1 million of government funding for local industry and training and educational programmes, Maritime Minister Mike Kane said on 5 December. Tees Maritime Cluster gains £117,000 to run a maritime training and careers events for schoolchildren and school leavers, students and job seekers.
Maritime UK ...
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Knowles Logistics has opened two bonded warehouse facilities at its sites in Wimblington and Wisbech in the east of England. The sites are accredited to BRCGS (Brand Reputation through Compliance Global Standard, formely British Retail Consortium) standard. The third party logistics specialist says that businesses offers importers and exporters a ...
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French-owned global forwarder Geodis has appointed Eric Martin-Neuville as executive vice-president, Asia-Pacific and Middle East and Henri Le Gouis Executive vice-president, global freight forwarding.
Eric Martin-Neuville was most recently executive vice president of the global freight forwarding line of business. Henri Le Gouis was chief executive of Western Europe at Bolloré ...
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