Freight forwarders – Page 79
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UK forwarder market sees consolidation as Ligentia swoops on Air & Cargo Services
Freight forwarder Ligentia Group has stepped in to purchase the business and assets of Air & Cargo Services Ltd, which had been facing financial headwinds.Ligentia said the purchase would provide a home to Air & Cargo Services' 79 employees and offer continuity of service to customers.The Leeds-headquartered forwarder added that ...
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Cargolux and Panalpina, rallying data for Cargo iQ's collaborative challenge
Freighter airline Cargolux and global forwarder Panalpina have won the first stage of Cargo iQ’s Q Rally challenge after working together to boost data quality and performance at Luxembourg Airport.The Cargo iQ initiative by the IATA quality standards interest group challenges its members to work together in collecting data which ...
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Crane Worldwide appoints Nielsen for the Benelux
Crane Worldwide Logistics has appointed Kenneth Nielsen to serve as managing director for the Benelux region.Based in Amsterdam, Nielsen, will be responsible for overseeing the continued growth of Crane Worldwide Logistics in Benelux and report to Marco Nazzari, regional vice president, EMEIA."The hiring of Nielsen demonstrates a commitment to improving ...
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Davies Turner Air Cargo expands in Glasgow
Davies Turner Air Cargo has doubled the size of its branch in Glasgow to accommodate growing demand.The airfreight subsidiary of Davies Turner, the UK’s largest independent freight forwarder, has had a base on the Hillington Park business estate since 2004 but has now moved into a 10,000 sq ft, fully ...
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Cargo.one raises funds with Lufthansa Cargo one of the investors
Online airfreight booking portal cargo.one has raised $3.2m in funding for the further development of the platform, with Lufthansa Cargo one of the investors.The platform, which allows user to book on the spot market with real-time pricing, launched earlier this year and has expanded rapidly.The funding will be used to ...
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LATAM launches Huntsville freighter to meet Panalpina's perishables needs
LATAM Cargo has launched a new Colombia-US freighter operation to meet the requirements of customer Panalpina.The new weekly route was launched on December 2 and operates between Bogota and Huntsville using a 50 tonne capacity Boeing 767-300 freighter.The airline said it had decided to launch the service in response to ...
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Index shows "slight upswing" in world trade
World trade experienced a slight upswing in recent months and reached a new high in November, while international merchandise trade has risen by 10.6% so far this year.Emerging markets and North America are the main growth drivers. Despite new tariffs on exported products, China is benefiting from the strong US ...
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Bangladesh exports fly out of Kolkata in first bonded cargo land-air transhipment
Bonded cargo from Bangladesh was flown out of the Indian airport of Kolkata after EFL created a tailor-made logistics solution to handle the very first bonded, cross-border, land-air transhipment between the two countries.The EFL offices in Bangladesh and India collaborated in handling the cargo of apparel at the point of ...
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Tigers' enhanced platform helps customers adopt a dual hub Brexit strategy
Logistics firm Tigers’ recently upgraded supply chain portal is helping companies prepare for Brexit by enabling them to implement a dual-hub strategy in the European region.The Hong Kong-headquartered company has recently added freight management capabilities (air and ocean) to its SmartHub:Connect customer portal, which already offered logistics and e-commerce visibility.Speaking ...
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Kuehne+Nagel reveals new customer portal
Kuehne+Nagel has launched a new booking portal that will allow customers to get quotes, book and track shipments.The myKN service offers customers a single point of access to all online services, replacing the current Control Center.myKN allows to explore, quote, book and track as well as managing shipments and user ...
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Panalpina targets growth in Kenya as it expands Nairobi cold storage
Panalpina has doubled its cold storage space at Nairobi’s Jomo Kenyatta International Airport as it looks to grow perishable volumes from Kenya.The facility has been expanded by 1,500 sq m and offers Jomo Kenyatta International Airport's only dedicated loading bays for skidded or palletised cargo and with separate cold rooms ...
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Schenker revamps board of directors
Schenker AG says it is looking to the future, with three new top managers who will make the Management Board “younger, more international and even more customer focused”.New Board Member for Air and Ocean Freight is Thorsten Meincke, 49. With a degree in economics, he most recently served as the ...
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DHL forwarding to assess options for leased freighter network in the New Year
DHL Global Forwarding will assess whether to launch a third round the world freighter service or to cut back on the existing uplift after the Chinese New Year, which falls early in 2019.No decision has been taken either way on the leased Boeing 747 maindeck network, but Tim Scharwath, chief ...
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cargo-partner fine-tunes orchestra shipments
Logistics company cargo-partner ensured that all the instruments and equipment were delivered on-time and in prime condition for an Austrian symphonic orchestra’s tour of Japan.This was especially challenging since the return transport had to be prepared before the final concert tour route was fully decided and there was a very ...
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How would a combined K+N and Panalpina stack up in terms of air cargo?
Recent events have fuelled market speculation that Kuehne+Nagel could be interested in holding talks with Switzerland-based freight forwarder Panalpina, but what would a tie-up between the two logistics giants look like in terms of air cargo? (see chart at end of article)The speculation started when Panalpina’s Peter Ulber announced he ...
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CEVA to launch China–Europe trucking service to compete with airfreight
CEVA Logistics Greater China is preparing to launch truck services between China and Europe, claiming they are cheaper than airfreight and faster than rail.The first trial of the service, which has become possible since the international customs transit system, TIR, became active for the People’s Republic of China last May, ...
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DSV Canada to open its largest logistics complex
A new 1.1m sq ft multi-user warehouse and logistics complex in Canada will be the largest facility of its kind in the international DSV network when it opens in autumn next year.Located in Milton, Ontario, part of the Greater Toronto Area, it will become the DSV Canada head office and ...
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Hellmann the latest to sign up with cargo.one
Hellmann Worldwide Logistics has become the latest company to launch a partnership with online airfreight booking portal cargo.one.The forwarder said that cargo.one would enable it to book airfreight capacity fully digitally in real time, with live spot rates. Initially, Hellman will use the platform for bookings made in Germany, before ...
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Sales binges provide opportunities for airfreight
This past extended weekend’s numerous sales events appear to have been the biggest ever, if reports from retail giant Amazon are anything to go by.The likes of Black Friday and Cyber Monday, which represent a spike in business for an e-tail giant such as Amazon, also represent significant opportunities for ...
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CEVA buys CMA CGM's freight management business as part of strategic shake-up
CEVA will buy shareholder CMA CGM’s freight management activities for $105m as part of a wider revision of its strategic plan that will see management at the shipping line take key positions within the forwarder.CEVA, which launched a transformation project in 2014, said that as well as the acquisition of ...