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Express Freight benefits from strikes

Industrial action by postal workers is persuading shippers to consider express freight and parcel carriers as an alternative.  Parcelforce was actuall...
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Posted on October 29, 2009

Freight by Water

The annual seminar of Freight by Water will take place on November 11 2009 at Chatham HIstoric Naval Dockyard.  This organisation promotes the increas...
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Air freight backlog

Freight forwarders are experiencing serious delays when using air freight services from the Far East.  Delays from Hong Kong airport can be in the reg...
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Posted on October 27, 2009

Road freight optimism

Major freight forwarders are optimistic for the winter as volumes seem to have increased in September.  Whilst automotive freight is still 25 - 30% do...
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Warning for Shipping Industry

The President of the lobby group, the Chamber of Shipping, has warned that the industry must resign itself to oversupply until at least 2014.  Shippin...
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Logistics Liberation in India

Logistics operators in India are expecting great things of the national sales tax which the Government is planning to introduce next year.  The curren...
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Express Road Freight Challenge

EXpress freight service providers are facing a challenge from groupage operators, as high tech companies re-consider their logistics options and try to cut...
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Lords debate Rail Freight

On Friday the House of Lords will debate an EU Committee report about the European Commission's first rail freight package.  The report is critical of...
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Posted on October 22, 2009

Hong Kong air cargo recovery

Latest figures from Hong Kong International Airport show that cargo throughput is improving, although still well down on last year.  The reduction in ...
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Leipzig Orchestra in China

The Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra undertakes its first tour in the Far East, starting in Shanghai tomorrow.  The logistics requirements are complex; th...
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Shipping Lines Report increase

East bound freight from Europe to Asia has begun to increase: figures show that the volume of cargo bound for the east increased 10% in August in compariso...
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Posted on October 20, 2009

Freight Awards event

Periodical International Freighting Weekly held its Awards event last Thursday at Chelsea Football Club.  Thirteen companies from the freight and logi...
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Boost in volumes for China air freight

Freight industry pundits are reporting a boom in air freight from China, which many are attributing to re-stocking the low inventory levels resulting from ...
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Thai Ports and Shipping Conference

The fifth Thai Ports and Shipping Conference will take place in Bangkok from 29 - 30 October.  This is he largest bi-ennial container ports, shipping ...
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Posted on October 15, 2009

New Port for Stockholm

A decision is expected some time in October which will give the go-ahead for the development of a new freight container terminal at Nynashaemn near Stockho...
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Haulage essential to recovery

The chair of the transport select committee, MP Louise Ellman, has advised industry leaders that they need to be more positive in putting forward their vie...
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Shipping Companies support Carbon Trading

The UK Chamber of Shipping believes that emissions trading is an effective way of encouraging shipping lines to reduce carbon outputs.  The Uk Chamber...
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Posted on October 13, 2009

French rail freight rescue

Plans to develop the rail freight business have been published by the French national railway company.  SNCF has realised that they have neglected to ...
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Late payment of invoices

The majority of freight forwarders are small businesses, and are among those suffering from the late payment of invoices by several big brand name companie...
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Protest against Freight Depot

The organisation Stop the Rail Freight Exchange (STRIFE) is appealing for £30 000 to enable them to employ a barrister to put their case at a Public ...
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World Economic Forum conclusions

The WEF was held in Dalian, China, last month.  The overall conclusion was that the down turn in world trade and freight movements will eventually cau...
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Heathrow freight in decline

The volume of freight passing through Heathrow in August was 111,324 tonnes.  This means that the total freight for the first eight months of this yea...
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Free freight for disaster relief

Japanese Air Lines are providing air freight free of charge for disaster relief being sent to Indonesia following the earthquakes.  The shipper and th...
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Posted on October 7, 2009

Norway shipping line aims for reliability

A service from Rotterdam to Norway is reducing the number of calls it makes along the Norwegian coast in order to improve reliability.  After surveyin...
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Olympic Low Carbon Logistics

The lead logistics supplier for the London Olympics says that these will be the most 'carbon-free' Olympics yet from the freight point of view.  The s...
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Freight volumes improving

According to the Danske Bank's latest Freight Index report, based on the month of September, volumes across Europe improved during September.  Freight...
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New agent in Denmark

R W Freight is delighted to announce its new agency in Denmark, Bech-Hansen and Studsgaard A/S.  As one of the leading carriers in Denmark, BHS can he...
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Posted on October 6, 2009
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