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Swiss WorldCargo and WCA link up
Swiss WorldCargo has entered into a partnership agreement with WCA, the freight forwarding network for independent logistics providers.Under a Memorandum of Understanding, the air cargo division of Swiss International Air Lines will undertake "cross-cooperation projects" with three of WCA’s specialty groups – WCA Pharma, WCA Time Critical and WCA Dangerous ...
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Kerry Logistics boosts network
Asia-based Kerry Logistics has bought a controlling stake in Dubai’s Able Logistics Group and a majority stake in the sea and air arms of Canada’s Total Logistics Partner (TLP).Able Logistics is an international freight forwarder with offices across UAE, Saudi Arabia, Oman and China.Total Logistics Partner Ocean Consolidators and Total ...
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CHAMP focus on small and medium size forwarders
CHAMP Cargosystems has created a subsidiary to offer its Logitude Software as a Service (SaaS) platform for the small and medium size forwarder communityThe subsidiary, CHAMP Forwarding Systems, will promote SaaS, which is already fully integrated with CHAMP’s information and message distribution platform: Traxon CargoHUBJohn Johnston, chief executive of CHAMP ...
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DHL opens Leipzig pharma hub
DHL Global Forwarding has marked the official opening of a €3.4 million logistics centre in Leipzig, Germany, for the pharmaceuticals industry.The air and ocean freight specialist of Germany’s Deutsche Post DHL said that the facility, located next to Leipzig/Halle airport, serves as a competence centre for the “transport, transport preparation, ...
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Is shipment consolidation the big barrier to cutting transit times?
DOING the same thing over and over again and expecting a different outcome is a clear sign of madness, it is said. Exposure to the air cargo industry’s disjointed processes only endorses that aphorism, writes Thelma Etim, deputy editor.With the industry’s golden era long gone, and despite the e-commerce boom, ...
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WFS: Still room for expansion
All new account wins are welcome, of course, but a series of deals signed by handler Worldwide Flight Services (WFS) in Brussels in recent months have been particularly gratifying to its president and chief executive (CEO) Olivier Bijaoui, writes Peter Conway.That’s because a bigger presence at the Belgian hub was ...
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Seko invests in UK ecommerce agency amid online sales boom
GLOBAL forwarder SEKO Logistics has acquired an equity stake in UK ecommerce agency, Metakinetic, to capitalise on the growing number of online retail sales, writes Thelma Etim, deputy editor.Metakinetic will operate in tandem with another SEKO-owned company, Red Hot Penny, which specialises in end-to-end services for online retailers.Both agencies boast ...
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eAWB take-up hits its stride
August set the record for the fastest month for e-AWB growth, at 2% globally. Adoption speed is now four times that of the same period last year. There are now 20 airlines that have achieved over 20% e-AWB penetration, compared with only seven at the start of the year. Airports ...
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Handlers anxious to raise their profile
For a man who has just established his first foothold on a new continent, Olivier Bijaoui is surprisingly grumpy.The continent: South America. The ill temper: the president and CEO of WFS - the world’s largest cargo handling company, processing four million tonnes per year - believes air cargo handlers are ...
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Kuehne + Nagel: Simplicity is the solution
For airlines worried about the shift of cargo from air to sea, Tim Scharwath, executive vice president air logistics for Kuehne + Nagel, has both good and bad news. The bad news is that yes, air freight is playing a smaller role in the logistics of some key industries than ...
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Panalpina airfreight sees stable growth
INTERNATIONAL freight forwarding and logistics company Panalpina maintained overall profitability in the first nine months of 2014. Undeterred by ongoing restructuring, airfreight volumes grew four percent year-to-date, but unit profitability decreased due to margin pressure and currency effects.“We have managed to keep up profitability in the first nine months of ...
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Agility appoints Esa as coo for Europe
Logistics provider Agility has appointed Mohammed Esa as chief commercial officer (COO) for Europe, assuming responsibility for all commercial activities, including sales, marketing and product management.“With his background in emerging markets and experience in operations, sales, and marketing, Esa brings insight and expertise that will be invaluable in his new ...
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Eastward push for global trade
A substantial shift to emerging economies is pushing eastward the world’s economic centre of gravity, says global logistics giant DHL in its latest study.The third edition of DHL’s Global Connectedness Index (GCI) indicates that emerging countries are now involved in the majority of "international interactions".This is in contrast to pre-2010, ...
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Double digit boost for Expeditors
Expeditors International recorded double digit volume growth for both air and ocean freight in the 2014 third quarter, the first time this has happened since the last three months of 2010.The US-based global logistics operator said: "These 2014 third quarter results have given us a great deal of confidence,” adding ...
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CEVA to operate Gulfstream parts hub at Heathrow
Gulfstream Aerospace Corp has appointed CEVA Logistics to operate a new European Parts Distribution Centre at London Heathrow Airport.The facility will support Gulfstream’s business aircraft customers in the UK, Ireland, mainland Europe and the Nordics with urgent high-usage items.It will also provide rapid-response support for technicians from Gulfstream’s service centre ...
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CEVA air freight volumes on the up
Supply chain specialist CEVA reports that its third quarter airfreight volumes rose five per cent over prior year, ahead of the market.CEVA also announced that it is adopting a local, rather than region-based, operating model.Xavier Urbain, chief executive of CEVA, said: “For our customers, local ownership of execution is very ...
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DP DHL: air freight in Q3 surge
New business helped logistics giant Deutsche Post DHL record a 2.3 per cent growth in air freight volumes to 2.97m tonnes in the first nine months of 2014 versus prior year, outpacing sector revenues that edged ahead 0.6 per cent to E3.7bn.However, third-quarter air cargo volumes climbed “significantly” by 4.8 ...
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Agility shows growth
GLOBAL forwarder Agility's third quarter revenues were KD337m, a three per cent increase from the same period a year earlier, with a profit rise of seven per cent to KD13m.For the first nine months of 2014, the Kuwait-based global logistics operator reported a net profit of KD37.1m, an increase of ...
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Agility appoints Poulsen for Greater China Area
Agility has appointed Soren Poulsen as chief executive for the Greater China Area (GCA), responsible for leading the forwarder’s Global Integrated Logistics business in China, Hong Kong and Taiwan.Poulsen, with around 25 years logistics industry experience, has spent more than 10 years of his career in management positions in China.Prior ...
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Damco responds to Zhengzhou growth
Also responding to the commercial shift from China’s coastal areas to well-connected inland hubs, Maersk forwarding and logistics unit Damco has opened a new commercial office in Zhengzhou, focused on electronics exports."Zhengzhou has become a very important multimodal hub for Damco, with its strategic location, well-connected transportation network and advanced ...