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AGI International has appointed Alex Kelly Alex Kelly to the new role of group operations director. Kelly brings 20 years’ experience in the logistics and freight forwarding sectors.
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East Midlands Freeport has become fully operational after getting final government sign off on 30 March.
The Freeport will now receive up to £25 million seed funding from government and potentially hundreds of millions in locally retained business rates.
It aims to encourage investment into sectors including automotive, space, and satellites sectors.
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Deutsche Bahn (DB) Group said on 30 March that it had achieved an operating profit of almost €1.3 billion and with its logistics and forwarding arm DB Schenker generating its highest profit in its history. - Dr Levin Holle, chief financial officer for the group - which includes the German ...
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Kuehne+Nagel operated its first charter cargo flight into Birmingham-Shuttlesworth International Airport in Alabama, from Stuttgart, Germany on 2 April. The weekly 747-8F flight is aimed at the automotive, aviation, and pharmaceutical industries and others that are experiencing congestion at major hub airports.
It follows the signing of a partnership between the ...
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Danish-owned Scan Global Logistics has opened an office in Bucharest, Romania to strengthen its position in the Balkan Peninsula and to leverage existing locations in Hungary and the Czech Republic. It is the company's first announcement since welcoming new majority shareholder, CVC to boost its growth. The Bucharest office will ...
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ABP has appointed Colin McLoughlin as head of operations for the Humber. He joined ABP Humber in 2015, and has delivered key operations and warehousing projects. and will now be responsible for terminal operations in Immingham, Grimsby, Hull, and Goole.
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AP Moller-Maersk has signed a lease for a 685,000sq ft (63,000sq m) warehouse at SEGRO Logistics Park East Midlands Gateway.
The facility will be completed in June 2023 and is part of a 700-acre development by SEGRO. It includes the UK’s only inland freeport and a 50-acre rail freight interchange with ...
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Brittany Ferries has welcomed a proposed French law to block ferry companies from ports if they do not pay seafarers minimum wages. It received unanimous support in the Assemblée Nationale on 28 March and has now passed to the Senate in the next step in the legislative process.
The new law ...
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Port of Middlesbrough owner AV Dawson has set up a Leadership Academy to encourage the next generation of business management. It will, in time, be open to any colleague in the business that aspires to develop and will equip them with additional skills, while preparing them for future succession. Also ...
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The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey said it moved the most cargo in the US in February 2023 and year-to-date in 2023. It remained busy in February, traditionally the slowest time of the year for all US ports, moving 571,177TEU and exceeding the Port of Los Angeles ...
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