Boom Logistics

Boom Logistics | October 21, 2016

When Jennifer Poni Joel Donga introduced the stories of fellow coffee farmers in South Sudan to an audience in Paris last year, she was glowing with pride. In the French capital for the sales launch of Africa’s newest country’s first batch of coffee, she said: “The farmers are very excited and they are happy” about the prospect of cups of coffee being the first non-oil export from the war-ravaged country....

Boom Logistics | October 20, 2016

Boom Logistics was contracted to transport the excavator to a repair shop 22 km away, using its 12-axle THP/SL heavy-duty combination trailer supplied by Goldhofer.Extensive preparations were required for loading the axle lines because of the difference in height between the mining excavator and the transport system. Initially, the earth had to be carefully extracted from under the excavator to create enough space for the heavy-duty module to be maneuvered into place, ready to take the load. Whe...

Boom Logistics | October 06, 2016

FedEx has just secured a site within Duke Realty's Park 85 industrial park in North Georgia along I-85 for what sources say will be a 1M SF distribution facility for the parcel service. Duke officials declined to comment. This deal comes just months after FedEx announced plans to open a $30M, 235k SF FedEx Ground facility 150 miles northwest of Braselton—in Chattanooga, TN....

Boom Logistics | July 10, 2016

Boom Logistics (ASX:BOL) lifts stake in Vivendi to more than 20%: XL Group Ltd (NYSE:XL), Yum! Brands (NYSE:YUM), Martin Marietta Materials (NYSE:MLM), Vincent Bollore has increased his stake in media conglomerate Vivendi SA (VIV.FR) via his family-controlled Boom Logistics Limited (ASX:BOL) group. The Bollore company said Monday that its stake in Vivendi–whose assets range from Universal Music Group to a holding in Telecom Italia–had risen over the 20% threshold. Bollore cros...