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Many of us who have been involved in freight in London for long enough will remember the old Tilbury Riverside Railway Station. It was a handy jumping off point for the docks area but its main purpose was to connect with the ferry to Gravesend.
However, it was rather awkwardly sited on a short stub branch line and, with the numbers of passengers using the ferry sharply declining, British Rail decided ...
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Ports of Stockholm and CMB.TECH are joining forces to offer hydrogen fuel for port operations, shipping companies and haulage firms. They will build a hydrogen fuelling station adjacent to the port and, in the initial phase, port vehicles will be converted to run on fuel with the first truck planned ...
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Irish Ferries is celebrating the first anniversary of its Dover/Calais route, which was launched on 29 June 2021. It now operates three ships on the route for freight and passengers.Marketing director, Nora Costello, said: “The recent addition of a third ship on this route has allowed us to offer a ...
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Rhenus Air & Ocean UK has launched a life sciences and healthcare department at a newly refurbished site in Ashford, Middlesex, close to London’s Heathrow airport.The warehouse, the first of its kind in Europe for Rhenus Group is a one-stop-shop for all import and export logistics, offering a white glove ...
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CEVA Logistics has opened an office in Gdynia, Poland. It is focused ocean freight services, including LCL, FCL, break bulk and project logistics. It is also home to members of the company’s ocean freight and industrial projects and energy services (IP&ES) teams and also serves as the rail control tower ...
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Logistics company DSV and Danish energy company Ørsted are to test long-distance drone transport of spare parts and tools for offshore wind farms in the Kattegat Sea.
Technicians bring their tools and the components most often needed for the wind turbines, but if special spare parts are needed, they must go ...
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German logistics company Rhenus’s PartnerShip arm is investing in hybrid alternative fuelled articulated push barge units for its inland waterway services.
The Rhenus Mannheim I+II and Rhenus Wörth I+II are being built at the Den Breejen shipyard in the Netherlands and are due to be completed in September 2023 and the ...
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APM Terminals Apapa says it is close to gaining a connection with the new Lagos-Ibadan standard gauge rail line. On a visit to the port, Minister of State for Transportation, Senator Gbemisola Saraki, said that arrangements had been made to remove a Customs building housing a radiation scanner, which had ...
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Channel Tunnel operator Getlink says that its unaccompanied freight service, launched in September 2021, has seen “a marked acceleration since March 2022”, with more than 1000 trailers carried. Trailers are placed on the shuttle trains by a contracted operator whose tractor units accompany the trailers on the train journey and ...
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Current measures to create competition in liner shipping fail to take full account of the degree of co-operation between carriers according to the latest Container Shipping Market Quarterly Review by MDS Transmodal and the Global Shippers Forum (GSF).
The report suggests that a modified measure is used that better reflects the ...
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