Freight forwarders – Page 105
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Forwarder partners provide Iran and Maghreb link
Forwarders Militzer & Münch and Andreas Schmid Logistik have founded a joint venture, MMAS Eurasia Logistic, to offer regular services to Iran and the Maghreb region of North Africa.The new company plans to offer several departures per week from its base at Gersthofen near Munich to Morocco, Tunisia, Algeria and ...
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Kuehne + Nagel to reinvigorate pharma firm’s global logistics
Kuehne + Nagel (K+N) is to become the air, sea and land logistics partner of pharmaceutical research company Grünenthal and will help the German group reorganise its worldwide transportation network.Grünenthal has production sites in Europe and Latin America and is represented in 32 countries through subsidiaries, while its products are ...
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Nairobi cargo terminal for perishables and dry cargo
A new cargo terminal for perishables and dry cargo is soon set to open at Kenya’s Jomo Kenyatta International Airport in Nairobi, East Africa.Logistics provider Mitchell Cotts commissioned the terminal, opening in September 2018, which will have an annual throughput capacity of 80,000 tons. There are already plans to expand ...
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Yusen Logistics has a customised solution
Japanese-owned forwarder Yusen Logistics has formed a Transportation Solutions Group (TSG) to create customised services for its customers.Offerings will include cargo consolidation and de-consolidation, value-added product handling, forward inventory positioning and customs house brokerage. Managed transportation services will be available including centralised execution and account management, purchase order and vendor ...
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Eight thousand miles for iced tea
The Turkish office of forwarder QualitAir&Sea – a member of the X2 network of logistics companies – recently operated one of the longest ever charter routes with perishable cargo when it moved 40 tons of frozen peaches from China to Mexico, a distance of 7,982 miles.It hired a B777-200F cargo ...
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Drone deliveries take off for DHL
Express delivery firms may still be exploring the potential of unmanned aerial vehicles for their own purposes, but they can also be a lucrative source of business in themselves.DHL’s Global Forwarding air and ocean freight specialist has signed a contract with Chinese consumer electronics exporter, Shenzhen Youkeshu Technologies to transport ...
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Forwarder ensures happy landing for Emirates
Freight forwarder and Project Cargo Network member for the UAE, Lintas Freight recently moved 13.3 tonnes of aircraft landing gears by air to the UK for Emirates Engineering.After negotiating competitive rates with the freighter airline, Lintas arranged space on the next available flights to London Heathrow Airport. It also arranged ...
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Carriers see Europe-Asia demand surge as box lines feel a capacity pinch
A surge in airfreight demand on the Europe-Asia trade has seen IAG Cargo suggest that a capacity crunch in ocean shipping is forcing shippers and forwarders to switch transport modes.IAG Cargo said that it had seen a boom in demand on key routes from Europe into Asia over the first ...
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Time:matters adds digital platform for on-board courier service
Time:matters has added a new digital platform for customers using its on-board courier service offering instant quotes.The Lufthansa-owned time-critical logistics specialist's new platform allows customers to input their shipment details and receive a complete quote in less than a minute, which can then be used to make an immediate online ...
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Kerry set for CIS forwarding acquisition as it offloads HK airfreight terminal
Kerry Logistics increased its profits and revenues last year and has also revealed plans to offload a stake in a Hong Kong cargo terminal subsidiary, to invest in the CIS states and to grow its e-commerce business.In a stock exchange filing, the Hong Kong-headquartered logistics firm revealed that subsidiary Torres ...
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Focus: Miami targets sea-air
A 10-ton consignment of snow peas on board a vessel from Guatemala saw the launch of a pilot programme to develop sea-air traffic from Latin America to destinations across the Atlantic as well as in Asia.The Crowley Maritime ship sailed on January 26 on a course for Miami International Airport ...
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Agility invests S$25.5m in Singapore warehouse
Logistics firm Agility has acquired a two-storey warehouse close to Changi International Airport, giving it more than 600,000 sq ft of warehouse space in total in Singapore.The newly acquired 177,000 sq ft warehouse cost S$25.5m and is located in an area with access to "an array of logistics services" and ...
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Panalpina’s airfreight business on the up
Panalpina’s 2016 management report has taken a look back at last year and the global supply chain services provider’s performance over the 12 months.The company noted that the global airfreight market grew by between 1 and 2% in 2016, while capacity outpaced demand by more than 5%.This created a “continuous ...
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Dachser grows its footprint at Singapore Changi
Dachser Singapore has expanded its office at Singapore’s Changi International Airport in order to cope with what it says is its “growing business” handled from the island.Another floor was added to the Dachser office, and the total space available at the office is now said to be five times larger.The ...
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K+N boosts pharma capability in Benelux region
Supply chain services giant Kuehne + Nagel (K+N) has invested in 50 temperature-controlled trailers to grow its dedicated road-haul pharma network in Belgium and Luxembourg.The trailers have built-in Discharge Air Control (DAC) and Precision Temperature Control (PTC) technology, protecting their loads from temperature deviations.According to K+N, it is “one of ...
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More than just logistics – Panalpina opens new Dubai base
Panalpina has officially opened a new logistics manufacturing centre in Dubai South next to Al Maktoum International Airport. The 40,000sq m site, three times bigger than the one it replaces, will help the forwarder increase its logistics and freight business in the Middle East, Africa and CIS (MEAC) region. There ...
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New index to keep tabs on Asian freight
A freight industry consultant and a journalist have created a new Asian forwarding index. Cathy Roberson, an industry veteran who has been consulting on logistics markets for two decades and freight journalist and consultant Mike King, say that their new APAC Forwarding Index will measure current demand and forward sentiment.It ...
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Damco offers digital dashboards
Third party logistics company Damco is offering its customers a new supply chain intelligence solution. It provides a suite of interactive ‘dashboards’ delivering up-to-the-minute information on their supply chains, fully integrated into Damco’s operational systems.Damco says that using data to provide actionable insights for decision making has until now been ...
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DHL centre taps into Asian e-commerce boom
DHL eCommerce has extended its global fulfilment centre network with a new facility in Hong Kong. It will cater to the growing demand for cross-border services in Asia Pacific particularly from greater China and will allow online sellers to move their goods closer to their end customers and speed up ...
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NewsDHL sees airfreight demand decline despite end of year surge
Deutsche Post DHL’s (DP DHL) airfreight division saw volumes, revenues and gross profits decline last year despite an end of year surge in demand.Airfreight volumes at DHL Global Forwarding, which is the world’s largest airfreight forwarder, declined by 1.3% year on year last year to 2m tonnes but in the ...