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A new airside service at Heathrow airport has been launched by Kuehne + Nagel to enhance its critical spare parts logistics offering to the aerospace industry. The new solution means Kuehne + Nagel is even better positioned to meet the unique challenges an Aircraft on Ground (AOG) situation presents. It allows engineers to remain on stand with the grounded aircraft while…
UPS (NYSE:UPS) today announced first quarter 2012 diluted earnings per share of $1.00, a 10% improvement over the prior-year period. Consolidated revenue increased 4.4% to $13.1 billion. Operating profit for the U.S. Domestic and Supply Chain and Freight segments increased 13% and 19%, respectively. “These results demonstrate that UPS is providing its customers with…
Novacom Europe, a JV of GE TIP Trailer Services, has been awarded the prestigious Frost & Sullivan 2011 European Market Share Leadership Award for Trailer Telematics GE TIP Trailer Services, market leader serving the transport and logistics industry, enriches its services with Novacom Europe telematics solutions DB Schenker, market leader in transportation and logistics, uses Novacom Europe’s…
HID Global, trusted leader in solutions for the delivery of secure identity, today announced its manufacturing innovation that enables use of the world’s smallest integrated low-frequency (LF) chips ever produced for contactless ID applications. HID Global is the first company that can effectively attach an antenna via its patented direct bonding technology to a chip…
SMARTRAC N.V., the leading developer, manufacturer and supplier of RFID transponders and inlays, today announced that it is recognized by Frost & Sullivan with the 2012 European Frost & Sullivan Competitive Strategy Leadership Award. “The company has showcased steady advancement in its market position through consistent organic growth and acquisitions,” notes Frost & Sullivan…
Ruslan International – the company which markets and manages the combined Antonov An-124 fleets of its shareholders Antonov Airlines and Volga Dnepr Airlines – has completed a programme of 15 flights using the giant An-124 freighter aircraft, for the Japanese peace keeping contingent of the United Nations Mission in Sudan (UNMIS). The flights –…
Despite continuing shortfalls in its top two markets of Asia and North America during the first three months of 2012, gains in other markets have seen Amsterdam Airport Schiphol’s total cargo throughput hold up well, to end 3% below 2011 at 358,220 tonnes. Asian traffic for January-March 2012 was down 15% on 2011, at…
As malnutrition reaches emergency levels across the Sahel region of West and Central Africa affecting at least one million children, UNICEF partner UPS has sprung to action to provide transport for the first aerial shipment of lifesaving UNICEF supplies to Mauritania this year, a country within the affected region. The UPS flight, departing from…
The global multimodal service provider Geodis Wilson will be exhibiting at this year’s LogiPharma Europe which starts today at the Hotel President Wilson, Geneva, and runs until Thursday, 26th April. Martin Svantesson, Director Vertical Market, will be attending this event together with other senior executives. Geodis Wilson understands the enormous pressures facing the industry…
HID Global, trusted leader in solutions for the delivery of secure identity, today unveiled at this week’s EURO ID 2012 in Berlin its expanded portfolio of radio frequency identification (RFID) solutions from its Identification Technologies business segment, including many new tag designs never before shown in Europe. This showcase of new and existing RFID tag…
20 years ago Kuehne + Nagel founded its national company in Poznan. Today, this anniversary was celebrated with numerous customers and business partners as well as national and local political representatives. “In the past 20 years, Kuehne + Nagel Poland has continually expanded its customer base by providing high quality logistics services,” said Reinhard Lange, CEO of Kuehne +…
The Middle East is seeking a gradual movement away from its dependency on oil and gas production to diversify its economy and create a positive environment for the development of its plastics industry, according to a new report by industry intelligence company GlobalData. The new report* suggests that the region has been witness to the…
Sephora, the leading retail beauty chain and member of the luxury products group LVMH, has extended its logistics partnership with Kuehne + Nagel for a further three years. Kuehne + Nagel has been managing Sephora’s national distribution centre in Italy since 2005. With the newly signed agreement, Kuehne + Nagel will expand its services to supply the customer’s outlets in…
True to the motto “My home is my Egger and my warehouse is my castle” the METALAG WMS is now also in use at the new automated high rise racking store for private brewery Egger and Radlberger-Getränke! Egger and Radlberger warehouse in Unterradlberg At the end of March 2012 the newly constructed high rise racking store…
Hong Kong Air Cargo Terminals Limited (Hactl) – the major air cargo handler at the world’s largest air cargo hub – has set up the first IATA Authorised Training Centre (ATC) for cargo in Hong Kong. To increase the level of competency and the qualification of air cargo practitioners in the industry, the IATA…
Accellos, a leading provider of supply chain execution software solutions, today announced AccellosOne Warehouse Version 6.4, the latest iteration of their highly successful warehouse management system. AccellosOne Warehouse is an end-to-end suite of products aimed at increasing the productivity, efficiency and visibility of activities that take place in a company’s warehouse and distribution operations….
Drewry Maritime Research and CargoSmart Limited have entered into a cooperation agreement that will introduce a wider range of container Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) to help importers and exporters benchmark their carriers’ service levels. Drewry will incorporate the additional KPIs into a new quarterly report, the details of which will be announced later this…
Behind those 7 million TEU is a world as flexible as the rectangular box is rigid – 4 years of high waves and deep troughs in international container shipping during which makers showed capable of varying annual production between less than 400,000 and more than 3,400,000 TEU – lessors acted as co-savers of their main…
Wallenius Wilhelmsen Logistics (WWL), the global shipping and logistics company, announced today that it is on track to reduce its relative green house gas emissions with 30% by 2015, compared to a 2005 baseline. In 2011, CO2 emissions in grams per tonne kilometre were reduced by 4% compared to 2010. The company attributed the change…
IJS Global, the worldwide, world-class logistics service provider, has further expanded the senior management team of its ocean freight division with the announcement of the appointment of Matthew Deer as its Head of Ocean Freight EMEA and Senior Vice President. Deer brings extensive experience from the global logistics to IJS Global, having held various positions…
Cargo throughput at Hong Kong Air Cargo Terminals Limited (Hactl) – the major air cargo handler at the world’s largest air cargo hub – showed a strong recovery in both exports and transhipment traffic in the first quarter of 2012. March 2012 saw exports up 0.4% on the previous year, at 137,598 tonnes: the…
The huge global demand for methanol is set to build up business in the Middle East, while China looks to keep the title of leading petrochemical hub, according to a new report by business intelligence experts GBI Research. The new report* anticipates that China and the Middle East will benefit in the coming years…
AirBridgeCargo is the winner of the Cargo category in this year’s Schiphol Aviation Awards, in recognition of its exceptional performance. In making the award in front of an audience of 130 at the General Aviation Terminal, Schiphol East, the airport’s Executive Vice President and COO, Ad Rutten, said that AirBridgeCargo had proven to be…
IDC Energy Insights has announced the release of its Smart Cities Maturity Model and a report tracing a city’s journey to becoming "smart" based on the dimensions of government, buildings, mobility, energy, environment and services across three major stages of data availability and its level of integration. The IDC Energy Insights Smart Cities Maturity…
KAMAZ, the largest truck manufacturer in the Russian Federation, has achieved annual energy savings of 30% in all its plants, using an advanced energy saving concept from Atlas Copco. Through installing new compressed air equipment, KAMAZ is able to reduce their energy bill by more than RUB 200 million (5,2 MEUR) in 2012. On March…
Asia’s biennial technical textiles and nonwovens trade event covers more than 20,000 sqm of exhibition space China’s rapid urbanisation development drives technical and nonwovens consumption forward Cinte Techtextil China 2012 is scheduled to take place from 22 – 24 October in Shanghai, so far occupying an exhibition area of over 20,000 sqm total…
Platts, a leading global energy, petrochemicals and metals information provider, today announced it has enhanced its website www.platts.com to include a special section aimed at the energy information needs of the aviation industry. “We’re pleased to introduce a one-stop source of global jet fuel news and price data that we believe will further enhance…
Multimodal 2012, the UK’s only annual event focused on the transport and logistics industries, is proving to be a springboard for a host of new ideas, products and services to help improve the efficiency and effectiveness of the logistics industry. The show takes place at Birmingham’s National Exhibition Centre on 1st to 3rd May….
NYC-based PIRA Energy Group reports that the largest weekly U.S. crude stock build of the year came at an inopportune time for oil prices, while Japanese weekly crude stocks fell. Specifically, PIRA’s analysis of the oil market fundamentals has revealed the following: Largest U.S. crude stock build of the year. The huge reported U.S….
In Schweden ist eine Höhenforschungs-Weltraumrakete gestartet, die mit dem Logo des Münchner Logistikdienstleisters LSi versehen ist. Hintergrund ist die langjährige Zusammenarbeit zwischen LSi und dem Deutschen Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt e. V. (DLR). Das auf hochwertige Expressdienste und Projektlogistik spezialisierte Unternehmen ist international für verschiedene Geschäfts- einheiten des DLR tätig. So transportiert LSi regelmäßig…
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