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DSV pulls out of CEVA bid process after revised offer is rejected
DSV will not seek to acquire CEVA Logistics after the Danish supply chain giant's "revised private proposal" was rejected.The second offer of CHF30 a share by DSV would have provided CEVA shareholders with a premium of 60.4% to CEVA’s share price of CHF 18.70 as of 1 October 2018.DSV's first ...
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Schiphol's van Pelt moving on to the next step in her career
Saskia van Pelt is leaving Amsterdam's Schiphol Airport after ten years working as the Dutch hub's director of business development cargo.Van Pelt has decided to move forward and take a next step in her professional career.Having experienced many changes and developments in the air cargo industry, van Pelt has indicated ...
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Seko Logistics wins beauty contest
Feelunique, Europe’s leading online beauty retailer, is opening a distribution hub in Hong Kong this month in partnership with SEKO Logistics to serve its rapidly growing customer base in mainland China.Sales have grown exponentially since the retailer launched its dedicated Chinese website three years ago and China now accounts for ...
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Yusen wins Jurox animal healthcare contract
Animal healthcare specialist Jurox has awarded Yusen Logistics UK a contract for warehousing and final mile distribution in the UK and Ireland as part of a strategic move to appoint one global partner.Yusen Logistics already handles Jurox’s international cross border airfreight, together with its complete outbound and inbound flows from ...
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UK Singles Day spend will double predicts e-commerce specialist
Singles’ Day will double in value in the UK this year, predicts e-commerce delivery specialist Parcelhero.Last year the e-commerce-enabled event, which originated in China and is now a global spending spree, generated worldwide sales of $25.3bn, dwarfing Black Friday/Cyber Monday combined sales of $14.48bn.As the day falls on a Sunday ...
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DHL fashions the global logistics for Sweden's Lindex
DHL Global Forwarding has assumed all the freight operations for Lindex, the Swedish fashion chain with 490 stores across 18 Markets plus e-commerce in 30 countries.The forwarding arm of logistics giant DHL manages freight consolidation and distribution to Lindex. Cargo must be shipped from 240 factories managed by 140 suppliers ...
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Jettainer to market lightweight pallets that help the environment
Jettainer is to market pallets containing a high proportion of lightweight squAIR-timber, a material which does not sacrifice load-bearing capacity.The outsourced ULD management specialist, a subsidiary of Lufthansa Cargo, has signed a partnership with German start-up trilatec to use innovative ‘paper beams’.The beams are made of a special cardboard fibre ...
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Air France reaches pay agreement with key unions
Air France and the unions representing its ground staff and cabin crew have signed an agreement that includes a general pay increase of 2%, backdated to January 2018, and a general pay increase of 2% from January 2019.The unions party to the agreement represent 76.4% of the employees who voted ...
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Turkish Cargo preparing for its new home
Turkish Cargo is preparing for the opening of Istanbul New Airport which takes place with a grand ceremony on October 29.The carrier has confirmed that it will continue all of its cargo operations from Istanbul Atatürk Airport until December 31, 2018, at which point all bellyhold cargo will be flown ...
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Lack of Brexit progress a threat to trade, says FTA
UK shipper and logistics group, the Freight Transport Association (FTA), has reacted with "frustration" at the lack of progress in Britain's negotiations to leave the European Union (EU) or 'Brexit' in March next year.The FTA said that companies responsible for moving goods and services between the UK and the EU ...
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Chapman Freeborn signs up with GTA in Canada
GTA Air Solutions has become Chapman Freeborn’s representative in the Canadian market under a new partnership announced at TIACA's International Air Cargo Forum held in Toronto this week.The new agreement will give Canadian customers improved access to international charter solutions, while strengthening Chapman Freeborn’s existing coverage in North America.GTA, based ...
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Gatwick proposes capacity increase through routine use of standby runway
Gatwick Airport has published a draft masterplan to increase capacity at the UK hub which includes the option for the routine use of its existing standby runway by the mid-2020s.This would allow an extra 10-15 movements per hour, potentially increasing cargo from 102,000 tonnes today to 325,000 tonnes by 2032/33, ...
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Animals carried as cargo force Lufthansa to ban dry ice
Lufthansa Cargo has “provisionally decided” not to transport dry ice in the bellies of Boeing 747 passenger aircraft, due to potential clashes with live animals being shipped in the same hold.After initial confusion about whether a ban was in place when contacted by Air Cargo News last week, a Lufthansa ...
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K+N airfreight tonnages up 16% in first nine months of 2018
Logistics giant Kuehne+Nagel (K+N) saw airfreight tonnage increase by 16% to 1.3m tonnes in the first nine months of 2018, well above market growth, with major contributions from industry-specific end-to-end solutions.Detlef Trefzger, chief executive of K+N International, said: “Kuehne+Nagel has continued its dynamic performance from the first half of the ...
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Ethiopian launches Oslo–Guangzhou freighter service and ups Addis Ababa frequency
Ethiopian Airlines is expanding its presence in Oslo, having launched a dedicated B777 freighter service to Guangzhou in China, and increasing its Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner frequency between Addis Ababa and the Norwegian capital to six times a week in December.The twice-weekly freighter departure to Guangzhou was launched last week to ...
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Panalpina boss on peak season: “airfreight capacity alone will not save the day”
Panalpina chief executive Stefan Karlen has warned that “airfreight capacity alone will not save the day” in air cargo's looming peak season, adding that “smooth operations on the ground will be equally important”.Karlen said that this year’s airfreight market is “not quite as strong” as in 2017, although rates remain ...
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WiseTech Global adds Datafreight to its portfolio of acquisitions
WiseTech Global has continued its worldwide buying spree with the acquisition of LSI Sigma Software (DataFreight), a leading provider of customs, freight forwarding and warehouse management software solutions in the UK.Headquartered in Southampton, DataFreight provides integrated logistics solutions, including HMRC customs software, specialist consultancy for UK customs compliance and freight ...
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CMA CGM ups share stake in CEVA Logistics to 33% after rejected DSV bid
Container shipping line CMA CGM has raised its stake in CEVA Logistics from 24.99% to 33% of company shares following the failed takeover approach for CEVA by Danish logistics giant DSV.CMA CGM, the world's third largest container shipping group, has also announced an “additional economic exposure of 4.56%” in CEVA ...
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Silk Way West Airlines launches Baku–Tianjin freighter link
Silk Way West Airlines (SWW) is to start a twice weekly freighter service to Tianjin connecting its global hub in Baku, Azerbijan, with one of the leading industrial centres in northern China.The service will close the strategic gap in the carrier’s network by offering full freighter services to booming Northern ...
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Atran Airlines to lease two Boeing 737-800 freighters from GECAS
Atran Airlines, the scheduled express cargo carrier within the Volga-Dnepr Group, has signed a deal with GE Capital Aviation Services (GECAS) for the lease of two Boeing 737-800 passenger-to-freighter (P2F) conversions.The aircraft are scheduled to be phased in during the remainder of 2018 and the first half of 2019. They ...