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INTEGRATED logistics provider, Toll Group, has acquired Express Logistics Group (ELG) for AUD50 million (US$46.44 million), to boost its position in the Australian and New Zealand freight forwarding market. Express Logistics Group operates 12 freight forwarding branches across New Zealand, Australia and the US, and also provides value added warehouse and ...
In line with its programme to develop cross-Channel rail freight, Eurotunnel provided access to the first freight train composed entirely of 30 refrigerated containers during the night of Thursday 29 - Friday 30 October 2009. The train organised by major international transport operator, Stobart Group, carried fruit and vegetables (oranges, lemons, tomato...
RFG congratulates Stobart and DBSchenker on the successful arrival of the first temperature controlled train from Spain today (30 October 2009). The train arrived on time at Dagenham, East of London, and was managed and hauled by DBSchenker for its complete journey from Spain to the UK. This train, initially planned to run weekly, has demonstr...
Brazil is the largest market for Mercedes-Benz trucks in the world in this year. Between January and September 2009, the Brazilian unit of Daimler Trucks registered sales volume of more than 23,000 units of all weight classes. This equals a decrease of -20% compared to the same period of the record year 2008, a decline that has been much lower than in other...
Scania has sold 60 city buses to Busslink, an operator for the public transport company Västtrafik in the Gothenburg (Göteborg) region of western Sweden. The buses have engines that can run on rapeseed methyl ester (RME), which is a fuel that does not contribute to net carbon dioxide emissions. “This is our second major transaction this ye...
Magna-Steyr in Graz and Magna Heavy Stamping in Albersdorf, Styria, have extended part-time work for 3,000 employees by six months, according to the Labour Market Service (AMS), according to Austrian Times. A part-time work regime was introduced at the firms in November 2008, with most workers receiving 90 per cent of their wages. Magna Europe spokesman ...
China's biggest-ever lottery prize of almost 360 million yuan ($52.7 million), which had triggered weeks of nationwide speculation over the identity of its winner, has finally been claimed, local lottery administrators said yesterday. A middle-aged man surnamed An took home the 290 million yuan after-tax jackpot at midday Tuesday, said Li Guangyun, spoke...
KUWAIT's Agility Defence & Government Services (DGS), a leading provider of logistics and supply chain services, has announced that it has won a contract to manage the receipt, warehousing and re-export of food aid and commodities for the US Agency for International Development (USAID). The contract is an Indefinite Delivery, Indefinite Quantity awar...
Port of Tallinn is the biggest port authority in Estonia and as far as both cargo and passenger traffic are taken into account, the biggest port on the shores of the Baltic Sea.
Qingdao Saint Voyage Logistics Inc. (SVL) is an Experienced International Shi
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