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Issue 1 2018 - Freight Business Journal


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CMA CGM to merge MacAndrews and OPDR


CMA CGM Group is to merge its MacAndrews and OPDR short sea subsidiaries into a single company, based in


Hamburg, from 1 January. The combined company, which will be branded MacAndrews, will have a presence in 16 countries,


36 agencies, 595 employees (310 from OPDR and 285 from MacAndrews) and operate 18 services. Existing employment


New road measures set to reprieve Newport


The Welsh Government has put forward a package of measures costing around £135m to mitigate the effect of


the new M4 relief road on ABP’s port of Newport. They include providing new buildings for firms operating in the port and


Ireland to


launch logistics apprenticeship


Ireland is to start work on a Logistics Associate apprenticeship, minister for education and skills, Richard Bruton announced on 8 December.


It is being developed in


partnership with the Irish International Freight Association among others and follows a call by the Irish Government for National Apprenticeship


developing the south dock as an alternative to the north dock which a new bridge would make inaccessible for some


applications in May 2017, setting a deadline of 1 September 2017. Target launch date for the new


apprenticeship is September 2018. With only a short time


window available, IIFA worked alongside associations such as Freight Transport Association of Ireland (FTAI), Institute of Chartered Shipbrokers Ireland (ICSI),


Chartered Institute Logistics & Transport of (CILT), the Supply Chain Management sales@vixsoft.com


levels will be maintained, said the parent company. MacAndrews services


connect the UK with the Iberian Peninsula and Poland while OPDR, acquired by the CMA CGM Group in 2015, mainly covers Central Europe, Spain (including the Canary Islands), Portugal and Morocco.


vessels. The height of a new bridge over the River Usk would be increased. The report added that the


measures meant that opening of the new relief road would be delayed by two years. A public inquiry into the


scheme is expected to finish this spring.


Institute (IPICS) and a handful of freight and supply-chain company representatives and Dublin Institute of Technology to research the needs of the industry. The consortium prepared a


proposal for a two-year Logistics Associate apprenticeship comprising full-time work-based activity with academic class- room involvement. Proposed off-the-job training include modules on the different modes


of freight transport, workplace competency and international trade. The aim is to promote careers


within the freight forwarding and wider supply-chain industry to


new entrants and also to provide a clear development path. The Logistics apprenticeship


is one of 26 new national programmes announced by the Irish Government.


FedEx’s Binks bows out


FedEx Express Europe president and TNT chief executive, David Binks (left), is to retire in June. He will be succeed by senior vice president of finance – international, Bert Nappier (centre). Binks, who started with


FedEx in 1983, rose through the ranks, leading FedEx Express teams in Europe, the Middle East and Canada. Most recently, he was


instrumental in the


completion of the company’s acquisition of TNT. Nappier joined FedEx in 2005


and has served in a variety of roles. In addition to leading the international finance organization, he is co-chair of the leadership council that is integrating TNT operations around the world. Helena Jansson (right) will


succeed Nappier in his finance role.


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