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UPS has signed an agreement to acquire Mexican express delivery company Estafeta, following a commercial agreement between the two companies in 2020. Estafeta is a 45-year old privately owned provider of integrated logistics solutions with an extensive domestic network. The combined companies will offer small package, healthcare logistics and end-to-end supply chain solutions.
The acquisition is targeted to close by the end of this year, subject to customary closing conditions and ...
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DHL Express has partnered with Google, to use its Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF) GoGreen Plus service. The initiative includes express shipping of Google devices across the Americas, Asia, and Europe, and is part of Google's push to decarbonizes its air cargo transportation.
Following the DHL Era ...
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FedEx is launching a two week pilot of a Mercedes Benz eActros 300 electric tractor for domestic linehaul at its Parkhouse station in Stoke on Trent, paired with an existing FedEx-owned trailer. FedEx previously piloted the Mercedes-Benz Trucks eActros 300 as a rigid truck for ...
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FedEx has opened its first European Life Science Center in Veldhoven, the Netherlands.The temperature-controlled facility joins a global network that can receive, store, kit, and pick, pack and ship healthcare products and is GDP (Good Distribution Practices)–licensed.
The 1,000sq m warehouse has four temperature-controlled rooms and ...
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Carousel Logistics, part of Danish-owned Danx Carousel Group, has acquired UK firm Logik Logistics International (Logik), a specialist in time-critical, on-demand solutions. Danx Carousel said the move would not only strengthen its time-critical capabilities but also its on-demand and ad-hoc services. Logik specialises in sectors ...
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DHL Express has signed a Letter of Intent for an operating agreement for two DHL B777 freighters with Central Airlines, its first with a local Chinese cargo airline. The two aircraft will be delivered for operations by the carrier and will carry a dual DHL ...
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Heathrow Airport express handler CFL has signed a three-year deal with Thai Airways to add a courier product to its portfolio. CFL says that few of the Asia Pacific region’s airlines offer such a product and it will create significant potential for regional businesses in ...
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Time critical logistics company Danx has acquired TLS, a Denmark-based logistics specialist in the transport and installation of technical equipment. Established in 1999, TLS focuses operates throughout Denmark and Sweden and has five ‘storage hotels’ in Aarhus, Copenhagen, Stockholm, Gothenburg and Malmö which are available ...
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UPS Healthcare is investing over €20 million in its temperature-controlled road fleet in Europe.The new vehicles will go into service in Italy, France, the Netherlands, and Hungary, adding to UPS’s fleet of more than 1,100 cold chain vehicles – already the largest in the world.
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Courier firm ACS Time Critical recently chartered a private jet to transport life-saving blood plasma from Manchester in the UKr to a hospital in San Francisco.
The company received a call to deliver the plasma to the US within a very specific timeframe. It also had ...
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