Chris Lewis
CMA CGM Group chairman and chief executive Rodolphe Saadé revealed that Manchester, along with Singapore, will be one of two new hubs for the Zebox Ventures seed fund for French and international start-ups.
He said that the city was the number one location in Europe for tech startups, with its five universities, attractive funding programs for entrepreneurs and a raft of sustainable development initiatives.
With an average deal size of €50,000 to ...
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Air Charter Service has opened a new office in Mexico City, its 12th in the Americas and 30th in total. It is headed by Marco Circosta, who joined ACS nine years ago, and has worked in multiple ACS offices around the world, along with focussing on the Mexican market for ...
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Air cargo quality standards group Cargo iQ has updated its Encore management platform to give ground handling agents visibility over specific time commitments for shipments in their care in order to meet service level agreements.
Technology and product manager Chris Davies said that this not only means that shipments are more ...
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Baku, Azerbaijan-based Silk Way West Airlines is operating new weekly flights to George Bush Intercontinental Airport, Houston. It will also continue to operate regular flights to Chicago and Dallas. Vice president commercial, Fadi Nahas, said: "Our growing presence in the Americas demonstrates our commitment to providing reliable and efficient cargo ...
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TX Logistik will offer a rail service for trailers between Duisburg and Padua, near Venice in north-east Italy from 2 May. The rail logistics company, which belongs to the Italian railways’ Mercitalia Logistics arm will operate four round trips per week with 32 loading units per train.
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Ferry operator DFDS said its March North Sea volumes were below last year mainly due to a drop in vegetable and fruit shipments between the Netherlands, caused by high energy prices. However, its Mediterranean volumes were above last year adjusted for the closure of the Izmir-Tarragona route.
Channel volumes were below ...
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XPO has appointed Emmanuel Arnaud as operations director – Europe. Prior to XPO, he held senior positions during 18 years with GEFCO, most recently as divisional chief executive with responsibility for road, air and sea freight, and customs and logistics operations. He reports to Luis Gomez, XPO’s president – Europe, ...
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The Cargo.one air freight platform has launched a new service that allows import agents to instantly compare and book live import rates. It says that, until now, procuring rates from abroad took import agents hours or even days with the process made more inefficient by agents being located in different ...
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Ellerman City Liners, the Essex-based liner shipping service operated by Uniserve, is adding a new weekly service between Gdynia, Poland to Teesport and Tilbury. The first sailing of the dedicated short sea service is due to sail from Poland on 28 April, offering a transit time of 3-4 days.
Essex-based forwarder ...
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DP World has released a new film about how it is extending its reach into the UK supply chain. It explains how the logistics solutions which it provides enable customers to move goods smoothly and efficiently in and out of the UK.
UK chief executive Ernst Schulze, said: “This film demonstrates ...
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