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Egham-based forwarder X-Pand International Freight has opened a new office and warehouse in Basildon, Essex to cope with increasing demand from its 3PL customers. X-pand also plans to tap into the continued growth of the nearby London Gateway Terminal and will use its Basildon facility as its ocean freight distribution centre.
Dewsbury based international freight forwarding and transport company, Maru International has appointed Gary Sawyer to its board of directors. He joined Maru in 2004 to establish LCL ocean consolidation services to complement the company’s existing services to western and eastern Europe and its sea, air and courier departments. He will continue to develop and promote the LCL department and new service destinations that are in the pipeline for 2015. Maru says it is now one of the regions largest independent operators of LCL services and is unique in that it operates its own warehouse for cargo stuffing with operational staff on site.
Midlands forwarder Surfair Logistics saw a 30% growth in turnover in its 2014/15 half year following its rebrand and relaunch. Managing director, Paul Cannon said the company had made a number of significant new contract wins. The company operates a 50,000sq ſt Midlands Gateway Hub and port centric activities have enhanced by a new gateway at Immingham.
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DHL Global Forwarding has appointed Graham Hunter as head of industrial projects for Europe. He will be responsible for business growth in Europe and realising DHL’s goal of becoming the number one project forwarder. He will be based in Poyle, near Heathrow. He joined DHL in 2010 as a member of the CSI Global Customer Solutions team and before that was head of industrial projects in the Middle East.
Geodis Wilson is to open a third Oil & Gas industry hub, in Singapore. In addition to existing hubs at Houston and Marseille, two more in Antwerp and Dubai will be online by the end of the year and a further two are planned for 2015.
Corporate jet firm Gulfstream Aerospace Corporation has appointed CEVA Logistics to operate a new European parts distribution centre at London Heathrow Airport. It replaces a previous operation at Madrid Airport, as Heathrow has the largest number of direct, non-stop flights of any airport in
Europe.The 8,000sq ſt site operates round the clock and is Customs-bonded, allowing Gulfstream to eliminate duties on inventory being held for re-export.
CEVA Logistics is investing about £12.5 million in its UK ground transport fleet, adding 120 tractor units, 40 rigid vehicles and 180 new trailers before the end of 2014. All of the vehicles will be fitted with telematics and the rigid vehicles will have an innovative load restraint system. Weight saving enhancements to the trailer specification increase capacity to 29.2 tons.
Hellmann Worldwide Logistics has launched its first international graduate scheme. The Hellmann InterGrad Programme starts in October with 14 of the industry’s most promising talent embarking on a entry level training designed to develop their skills and become part of Hellmann’s global talent network. The 30-month course will consist of six three-month foundation modules to give candidates an insight into all of Hellmann’s activities. Aſter the first 18 months, the candidates will be given the choice between specialisation and management career tracks.
International forwarder Panalpina said it maintained overall profitability in the first nine months of 2014. Undeterred by ongoing restructuring, group gross profit and EBIT both increased 1% (currency adjusted +6% and +4%), to CHF 1,178.7 million and CHF 94.4 million respectively. Losses in Logistics were “reduced drastically” to CHF 6.9 million for the period compared with -CHF 26.8 million in the same period of 2013. Air Freight and Ocean Freight volumes grew 4% and 8% year-to-date, but unit profitability decreased due to margin pressure and currency effects.
Issue 8 2014 - Freight Business Journal
FTA Ireland takes postcode worries to Government
FTA Ireland has taken a delegation of companies to meet the Joint Committee on Transport and Communications to express deep concerns over plans for a national postcode, due to be rolled out in 2015. The delegation said that while the Eircode’s usefulness for freight and parcels firms is likely to be severely compromised. FTA Ireland has previously asked for reassurance that Eircode is fit for purpose after it has received complaints from members General manager of FTA Ireland, Neil McDonnell, said: “Eircode... is totally
unsuitable as a modern postcode, and should not be released as Ireland’s National Postcode. There are plenty of viable alternatives already. Ireland should not miss out on this once in a generation chance to have a leading edge postcode solution.”
FTAI calls for transit rethink
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FTA Ireland is continuing to call for a concession from the new UK HGV Road User Levy for Irish hauliers transiting Northern Ireland on the A5 road. The A5 is the main link between the republic of Ireland and Donegal which leaves Monaghan, and goes through Omagh and Strabane in NI before re-entering the Republic. Members of the Legislative Assembly (MLAs) brought five ‘prayers of annulment’ (requests to annul) against elements of the Road Traffic Offenders Order - which will require HGVs from the Republic of Ireland and elsewhere outside of the UK to pay a fee to use NI roads - but these were were defeated at the plenary vote at Stormont on 4 November. However, FTAI general manger Neil McDonnell said that MLAs “held a sympathetic discussion around the issue” and that it would continue to press politicians in Stormont and Westminster.
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