All Freight Forwarder articles – Page 116
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UTI promotes McClelland
GLOBAL air and sea forwarder UTi Worldwide has appointed Mike McClelland as its senior vice-president of contract logistics and distribution in the Americas.It expands on his previous responsibility for UTi's distribution business in North America."Mike has successfully led our North American distribution business through a transition from four separate subsidiaries ...
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K+N: 'There will always be a need for freighters'
LOGISTICS giant Kuehne + Nagel believes that freighter aircraft will continue to play an important role global supply chains, despite the rise in wide-body belly capacity.Thomas Lehmann, K+N’s senior vice president airfreight, South Asia Pacific, says that shippers still prefer freighters in areas like Asia, while main-deck capacity will retain ...
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New sales manager at Geodis India
GLOBAL freight management company Geodis Wilson has appointed Sascha Von Ometzinski as national sales manager.Von Ometzinski will be responsible for sales and marketing development of Geodis' freight forwarding and logistics division in India.His main priorities will be strengthening and increasing the company’s trade lane activities, particularly with a focus on ...
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New air cargo boss at CEVA
GLOBAL supply chain management company CEVA Logistics has appointed Michael Schaecher as its new chief operating officer of global airfreight.The former chief executive (CEO) of Air Cargo Germany has held a wide selection of management and operations roles, including executive positions with DHL Global Forwarding, Star Broker and Panalpina World ...
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Panalpina's new 'lean' business model
PANALPINA is the first global logistics company to gain accreditation for its ‘lean training’ programme.The achievement comes two years after the company’s logistics division set out to incorporate lean manufacturing principles into its global operations.The Lean Competency System (LCS) accreditation, developed in partnership with the UK’s Cardiff University, means that ...
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Amsterdam's air cargo 'remote scanning' pilot under way
REPRESENTATIVES from forwarder Rhenus Logistics and Dutch Customs authorities have put a ‘remote scanning’ of airfreight shipments pilot scheme into operation in Amsterdam.A demonstration of airfreight shipment scanning, with remote electronic direct connection to Customs, has been launched by Rhenus and its daughter companies Rhenus Air, Copex, KDS Cargo and ...
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Celebi acquires Aviapartner in Germany
ÇELEBI, a Turkish ground-handling, cargo and warehouse operator, has made a major advance into the German air cargo business with the purchase of Aviapartner Cargo GmbH.The €4.6 million acquisition is part of its strategy to expand in the international arena, says the Istanbul-based company.Aviapartner Cargo is currently active at Frankfurt ...
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Work on DB Schenker's new Dubai facility under way
GLOBAL transportation company DB Schenker has started construction work on a new logistics facility in Dubai.It will offer general cargo warehousing, distribution and value-added services, with a warehouse space of 8,500 sq m and a total storage capacity of 8,500 pallet positions with two mezzanine levels dedicated for value added ...
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Air cargo boosts K+N's growth
A MARKET-BEATING airfreight contribution helped Swiss global logistics company Kuehne + Nagel [K+N] back on the road to profitable growth last year.Overall operational profits (EBITDA) increased by 4.6 per cent to US$1,083 million after an ‘excellent’ airfreight performance, states Dr Detlev Trefzger, chief executive.The company met its profit margin target ...
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Panalpina expects airfreight market to grow by 2-3 per cent
AIR, ocean and logistics company Panalpina made steady progress in 2013 – and expects the airfreight market to grow by 2-3 per cent this year.In 2013, the Swiss group reported pre-tax earnings of US$54million, more than double the 2012 result. The company outperformed the market in both air and ocean ...
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Edging towards e-freight
IF you have the idea that targets for the IATA e-freight programme keep slipping, you are not wrong.At the 2010 Air Cargo Forum the expectation was that the whole air cargo industry would be paperless by 2014, but the target IATA now has is for 22 per cent of feasible ...
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Asian e-commerce fuels UK firm’s growth
UK-BASED Europa Worldwide Logistics has seen its Asian air cargo operations soar, fuelled by the continuing boom in e-commerce, especially from China.The company’s Hong Kong office experienced year-on-year growth of 116 per cent last year.Consignments are consolidated locally and then shipped on daily services into the UK. Europa offers what ...
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New CEO at Dimerco
TAIWAN-BASED global logistics service provider Dimerco Express Group has promoted Edward Lin as its new chief executive officer.He replaces Paul Chien, founder and chairman of the company. Lin is currently Dimerco’s chief operating officer.This change represents ‘inheritance by generation’, says a statement.Prior to joining Dimerco 10 years ago, Lin worked ...
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'Local hero' forwarders can survive globalisation
Not so long ago, the orthodoxy was that medium-sized forwarders based in a single country – so-called ‘local heroes’ – would either get taken over or become niche players.Davies Turner has done neither and is still thriving after 144 years of existence as a family-owned firm, recently rising into the ...
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The cost of modal shift
MODAL SHIFT to ocean and other surface freight has cost the air cargo industry almost two percentage points of annual growth since 2000.The problem is set to continue at a moderate pace, says a report conducted by research firm Seabury Group and IATA.It reveals that airfreight’s share of total global ...
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How air cargo can be green
COMPANIES like to boast about what they are doing to combat climate change, but does it influence the way they design their supply chains? And what does that mean for air cargo? Will it inevitably always be seen as the bad boy for carbon emissions, or is there anything it ...
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Columbia excites Canadian exporters
THE NATION of Columbia is turning into a growing trade ally with Canada, with companies such as McCain Foods, Red Eagle Mining and Mansour Mining embracing the Latin American country as an exports partner.The Canada/Colombia Free Trade Agreement that came into force in August 2011 has lowered trade barriers and ...
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SEKO opens shop to e-tail forwarding
LIKE mid-sized forwarders, bricks-and-mortar retailers have been the subject of a host of obituaries, whose authors predict a world dominated by on-line ‘virtual’ shopping.In these prophecies of doom, physical high-street stores seem to exist solely so that consumers can personally check out the products – and then order them from ...
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Agility's profits up
AGILITY’s overall profits climbed 37 per cent to KD46.2m (US$164.09m) in 2013, despite revenue from its core Global Integrated Logistics (GIL) business falling by 4.5 per cent.Tarek Sultan, chairman and managing director, blamed the decline on “underlying challenges in the freight forwarding industry, including difficult airfreight conditions and falling ocean ...
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LH Cargo extends Jan de Rijk contract
LUFTHANSA Cargo has extended its road-feeder contract with ground transportation and distribution specialist Jan de Rijk Logistics.The extension is “a positive development in the current cargo market and proof of the trust Lufthansa Cargo has in our extensive trucking network”, says a statement by the Netherlands-based trucking company.Jan de Rijk ...