July 2012
Leading players in the UK meat industry recently visit London Gateway to gain an understanding of the facilities and services that the new port will offer.
Representatives from the International Meat Trade Association (IMTA) the Government's Department of Agriclture Fisheries and Food (DEFRA) as well as many of the UK’s leading meat importers, exporters and clearing agents viewed the DP World project.
ITMA president, Doug Brydges, commented: “The priority for our members ...
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Safmariners in South Africa helped support the fourth Nelson Mandela International Day by assisting communities in need. In Johannesburg, Safmariners and their customer, Merisol, spent more than 67 minutes - one minute for every year Mr Mandela dedicated to the fight for social justice - painting classrooms and planting lemon ...
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It will be business as usual for Portland Port despite the fact that the Dorset harbour will be in the thick of the 2012 Olympic & Paralympic Sailing events. It says that the games which start in Weymouth and Portland’s Olympic waters at the end of July will not impact ...
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Kintetsu World Express is to open a new 65,805sq m warehouse in the Jurong West area of western Singapore in January 2014. t will be a four-story building with air conditioned space for semi-conductors and medical related items. Cold rooms or clean rooms can be installed according to customer demand.
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The IRU signed a a Memorandum of Understanding with the Iranian TIR guaranteeing association, the Iran Chamber of Commerce Industries and Mines (ICCIM) and the Islamic Republic of Iran Customs Administration (IRICA) on cooperation and the use of modern TIR-IT risk-management technologies on 17 July. They also discussed the possibility ...
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Norbert Dentressangle has won a new £3 million two-year import contract with Nestlé Waters UK for bottled water from Europe that meets Nestle’s environmental goals to reduce CO2 emissions.
The forwarder has developed an integrated intermodal and road transport service, offering higher payloads to significantly cuts the number of road deliveries ...
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Taken as a whole, the Humber is the UK’s biggest port complex in tonnage terms – but the north and south banks of the estuary have not always pulled together, says Bill Walker, the interim chair of HumberPort. “There have been years of North versus South bank,” says Mr Walker, ...
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The geography of the modern global supply chain is making it vulnerable to the weather, says leading consultant. Dave Alberts, director at UK-based 'end-to-end' supply chain experts Crimson & Co, says that concentration of manufacturing in specific areas of the world makes supplies of many components particularly vulnerable to disruption.
For ...
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Portsmouth City Council and the Unite union are to hold talks after quay assistants at the council-owned port voted unanimously in favour of strike action in a dispute over new working contracts. They have agreed to meet on Monday 23 July to commence negotiations to resolve the dispute.
An overtime ban ...
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Famous Pacific Shipping (FPS) Lanka has launched a weekly ocean consolidation service from Sri Lanka to key points in the Maldives Islands, which lie to the south of India.
The Maldives - comprising several atolls and hundreds of small islands – provide many challenges for shipping, due to the widely-varying and ...
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