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Browsing: Logistics
Ken Abram has closed its doors after 44 years owing to increasingly difficult trading conditions and the loss of key contracts.
Malaysia Airlines System’s cargo operation, MASkargo, last month took delivery of its first B747-400 freighter.
Automotive supplier Hella has picked Kuehne & Nagel to manage its Chinese Aftermarket Division’s national warehousing activities.
The UK truck driver shortage has more than halved in the past year, according to Skills for Logistics although, it says, experts are warning it is too early to be complacent.
Asda is to appeal against an Employment Tribunal’s £850,000 fine.
We are sitting on a demographic time bomb.
The presence of low-cost economies on the eastern fringe has concentrated minds in Germany. But good infrastructure and a shift in the geographic centre for pan-European logistics creates a fine balance. By Chris Lewis
British Airways World Cargo has suspended its weekly service to Johannesburg via Cologne.
Qantas will convert four 737-300 passenger planes to freighters using a conversion kit from Israel Aircraft Industries’ Bedek Aviation Group.
