Bolloré LogistiCS USA( Houston branch) in collaboration with Bolloré Logistics Amsterdam handled a shipment of space museum artifacts, from Kansas, USA, to Bratislava, Slovakia on July 7, 2016. The material was picked up in Hutchinson, Kansas, where it had been on display at the Cosmosphere Space Museum, and was transported by air to Amsterdam, in the Netherlands. Bolloré Logistics Amsterdam then arranged the trucking to its final destination of Bratislava.
BroekMAn Logistics has extended its services with the introduction of Broekman Project Logistics, a total solution for every project cargo. Under its new product, the logistics provider will provide all services such as disassembling of project cargo at the production site, transportation to the port, intermediate storage, loading and unloading the ship at departure and arrival and onward transportation to the final destination. Not only this, under the total package, it will take care of all the paperwork, from transport permits to customs formalities. Broekman Project Logistics will also provide their own chartering service to complete the total package.
Crane WorldwiDE LogistiCS has invested in a new warehouse adjacent to Heathrow airport. The new facility, measuring 34,000 square feet, will provide increased warehouse space and improved capabilities such as e-commerce support, pick and pack operations, labelling, as well as catering to customers’ bespoke handling requirements. |
CEVA Logistics has been awarded a three year extension to its contract with bread-maker Hovis. Hovis is one of the largest bakery brands in the UK and sits |
amongst the best known food brands in the country. Within the contract, which first started in 2013, CEVA provides dedicated vehicles, dedicated drivers and crossdock warehousing services from its Mendlesham facility in Suffolk.
CEVA Logistics has won a three year contract for the European distribution of spare parts for Vermeer, a leading brand in agricultural and industrial equipment. The new European distribution centre( EDC) will operate from CEVA’ s Roosendaal facility in the Netherlands. In addition, CEVA will provide integrated ocean services to Vermeer from its Pella, Iowa, USA headquarters. This will enable Vermeer to support the new central warehouse at Roosendaal with additional parts which are made and stored in the US and which CEVA will then ship to Europe.
DB Cargo and the Hefei municipal government signed a Memorandum of Understanding( MoU) to initiate rail freight transport from Hefei to Hamburg and then expand operations along the route. The initial plan foresees one train per week starting at the beginning of October. Running via Dostyk in Kazakhstan, Moscow and Warsaw, the route to Germany covers the total of 10,600 kilometre and each freight train requires 15 days to complete the trip. Freight is varied, including wares such as photovoltaic components, computers and textiles. The transports are organised by Trans Eurasia Logistics, a joint venture between Deutsche Bahn and Russian Railways. DB SCHEnker has opened a new facility in Laredo, Texas, with 30,960 square feet of logistics management space, including 1,874 square feet of office space. The facility will become a certified Foreign Trade Zone( FTZ) in October 2016, with a dedicated Customs Broker / Import manager on site that will enable customers to store bonded cargo. The new warehouse, which is located in
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the Killiam Industrial Park near the World Trade Bridge, supports another 150,000 square feet facility that DB Schenker opened in Houston in 2015. Both facilities support the complex compliance requirements needed to import freight into Mexico and the United States.
DHL delivered German Designer Marcel Ostertag’ s Spring / Summer 2017 collection to New York Fashion Week: The Shows. As one of the four winners of the DHL Exported programme, Ostertag received shipping, logistics, branding and marketing support from DHL in collaboration with IMG to ensure that his 45 Spring / Summer 2017 designs completed the journey across 4,000 miles from his studio in Berlin to the catwalk in New York City.
DHL Supply CHAin inked a three year contract with European aircraft manufacturer ATR to manage urgent and semi-urgent deliveries of spare parts worldwide. The partnership between DHL Supply Chain and ATR covers inventory management, international distribution of spare parts, as well as operations related to maintenance that require a very high level of responsiveness. DHL Supply Chain also ensures the management of custom operations for spare parts and equipment, in collaboration with DHL Global Forwarding.
FedEx FreiGHt has purchased more than 100 compressed natural gas( CNG) tractors and has installed a CNG fueling station to serve the new CNG fleet at its Oklahoma City Service Centre. FedEx Freight entered into a contract with Clean Energy Fuels Corporation to design, build and maintain the fueling station. The CNG fueling station in Oklahoma City also provides efficiency for |
fueling the fleet through two different methods. The facility includes a four-lane“ fast fill” station which closely replicates a diesel fueling experience. Also on site is a“ time fill” station which has six zones and 18 hoses. In timefill applications, drivers connect their vehicles to an automated system in which the tractors are fueled over an extended period of time, typically overnight.
Kuehne + nAGEl has partnered with the TRANSPORE- ON Group, the operator of the leading European cloud-based e-logistics network, to implement a highly efficient digital collaboration platform with FTL and LTL carriers. Kuehne + Nagel will migrate its processes for transport assignment, transport execution and monitoring in the Full Truckload( FTL) and Lessthan-Truckload( LTL) segments to the TRANSPOREON platform in Europe in order to accelerate and simplify the interaction with its customers and carriers.NSB Group, one of Norway’ s largest transportation groups, has awarded contract to giant IT firm Wipro. As part of the three-year agreement, Wipro will implement its Boundary-less Datacenter( BLDC) and workspace solutions and utilise its delivery framework to deliver services which will help NSB variablise their IT operations, according to a company statement.O racle has signed an agreement to acquire LogFire, a provider of cloud-based warehouse management applications on September 6, 2016. The addition of LogFire will complement the logistics functionality of the Oracle SCM Cloud by adding cloud-based warehouse management capabilities. |