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News Roundup Forwarding & Logistics
The Stifel Logistics Confidence Index suffered its fourth consecutive month of decline in September. It reached its lowest point in 26 months, and also recorded its fastest pace of decline While the Index, at 51.5, remains above the neutral 50 mark, times may be gloomier that the numbers alone suggest, Ti adds. It says that September’s most concerning figure is the Logistics Situation Index – at 49.4, the index indicated an erosion in confidence, probably based on a combination of China’s slowing economy, general weakness in emerging markets and tepid global trade.
Scottish freight and logistics company Bullet Express has appointed Bob Oliver as international sales manager. He will further expand the company’s business at East Kilbride, where Bullet recently opened a four-acre storage facility to provide storage, pick and pack and container de stuffing. Bob Oliver brings over 30 years international logistics customer service, operational and sales experience in all aspects of air, road and sea freight. He has worked for medium range and multinational freight forwarders in senior operational and sales positions as well as over ten years as shipping manager for one of largest export and import manufacturers in central Scotland.
Priority Freight is ramping up operations at its Polish office in
Wroclaw, to provide a 24-hours a day service, five days a week. The company provides door-to-door logistics solutions for the automotive, aerospace and pharmaceutical industries, oſten in emergency and crisis situations. Priority now has six offices in four countries - UK, Germany, Poland and Russia.
US-owned forwarding and logistics company C.H. Robinson has appointed Oliver Volk director of European development, Asia Global Forwarding and Rajendra Tamil as route development manager Asia, Europe Global Forwarding. Oliver Volk was previously general manager of Ceva’s Air Asia Pacific trade lane. Rajendra Tamil most recently worked at FedEx Trade Networks as sales manager for France and previous spent several years in Hong Kong, as a route development manager with Kuehne + Nagel and DSV.
Schenker has appointed Alison Jackman as its new head of automotive for the UK, with immediate effect. She was previously a supply chain consultant and before that was global purchase and supply manager at Unipart from 2010 to 2012.
CEVA Logistics has appointed Clayton Noble as managing director of its Australia and New Zealand operations. He joins the logistics firm from Fuji Xerox Australia, where he was chief operations officer and he replaces Casey Fisher, who is returning to the US to become executive vice president business development of Ceva’s North American operations.
CEVA Logistics has won a new contract to provide UK warehousing and transportation services for tyre maker and distributor, Continental. Under the five year, $50 million deal, CEVA will manage Continental’s 21,000sq m warehouse at Central Park, Rugby, receiving, storing, and dispatching about three million tyres a year. CEVA will also manage Continental’s UK transport requirements, backed by a dedicated CEVA fleet as well as a network of regional partners.
UPS has officially opened a new contract logistics facility at Birch Coppice Business Park in North Warwickshire, to meet growing demand from retail and high-tech customers. The 13,000sq m space is close to the existing package sorting hub and the UPS hub at East Midlands Airport.
Professor Richard Wilding has been appointed chairman of the Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport in the UK (CILT). He has been a member of the Institute since 1992 and a Board member since 2011. He is also chair in Supply Chain Strategy at the Centre for Logistics and Supply Chain Management at Cranfield School of Management. He takes over from Neil Ashworth who has been chairman for the last five years.
Issue 7 2015 - Freight Business Journal
XPO launches Morocco service
XPO Logistics – which recently took over French and UK-based operator Norbert Dentressangle - has launched a new pallet distribution and groupage service between Europe and Morocco. Customers can now ship from Europe to any destination in Morocco using XPO’s European and domestic less-than-truckload (LTL) network service, Red Europe. The service is available inbound and outbound. There are no volume limits and a single-pallet minimum shipment.
XPO offers daily collections and twice-weekly shipments, on Wednesdays and Saturdays, in both directions. XPO Logistics has had operations in Morocco since 2009, working in
the manufacturing, automotive and components, textile and chemical sectors with blue-chip customers.
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