February 2016

North Sea will be more than the icing on Dundee’s cake

Forth Ports is poised to make the largest ever investment in Dundee harbour. It has unveiled plans to spend £10 million to create a new quayside with industry-leading “heavy lift” capability, coupled with an onshore operational area and position Dundee as a major centre for the North Sea oil and gas decommissioning and offshore wind sectors. The quayside at the east end of the port will be developed and connected to ... [+]

Are you getting enough?

The Women's International Shipping & Trading Association (WISTA) and recruitment firm Spinnaker Global are holding a talk on salary trends for men and women in shore-based shipping jobs” from 6 to 9 pm on 24 February.  Guest speaker, Karen Waltham, Managing Director of HR Consulting from Spinnaker Global, will highlight ... [+]

Return to Rio

Cargolux Airlines has returned to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil with a full freighter service from 4 March, departing Luxembourg on Fridays at 12.00GMT and arriving at 23.30 GMT. The flight continues to Sao Paulo before returning to Luxembourg, arriving on Saturday at 15.30. The return to Rio was driven by ... [+]

SoS sees Dover progress

The Secretary of State for Transport, Patrick McLoughlin visited the Port of Dover on 16 February to see progress being made in improving the resilience of the key gateway. The port's chief executive, Tim Waggott, said: “Dover is handling record volumes of freight vehicle traffic and we have responded by building ... [+]

Transporters demand Calais action

The Freight Transport Association (FTA) is today (17 February) calling for urgent action to protect trade links between the UK and Europe when it meets with Xavier Bertrand, new president of the Nord Pas de Calais Picardie region. Mr Bertrand called the meeting in Calais with transport stakeholders including the ... [+]

New Denmark call opens up Norway links

Norway/Europe ferry company Fjord Line has signed a deal with Cobelfret subsidiary CLdN ro-ro to give it access to the latter's European network for the transport of freight and cargo. It hinges on a new weekly call by CLdN in Hirtshals, Denmark on its Zeebrugge-Gothenburg route. Not only does it open ... [+]

Shippers hail sea-change in shipping line pricing

The Freight Transport Association (FTA) says it welcomes commitments by 15 shipping lines to change their pricing regimes, published in the European Commission's Official Journal on 16 February. For the first time, they will cease to announce general rate increases and publish the actual prices available to customers on an ... [+]

Conference to explore the digital supply chain

Software company AEB is holding a conference entitled: Digitisation and the Internet of Things: Impacts on the supply chain in Leamington Spa on Thursday, 28 April (9am to 4.15pm, Mallory Court Hotel). Held in partnership with the Chartered Institute of Logistics & Transport, it will explore the impact of digitisation, ... [+]

Stansted gains Africa link

AirBridgeCargo Airlines (ABC) – the scheduled arm of Russian heavylift carrier Volga-Dnepr - has started twice-weekly Boeing 747 freighter services from London Stansted to to Libreville (Gabon) and Johannesburg with capacity provided by new UK cargo airline, CargoLogicAir. The flights will operate every Thursday and Sunday and will be routed ... [+]

TNT turns loss into profit

TNT's management hailed a 4.1% improvement in fourth quarter 2015 revenues of €1,861 million, - compared to an operating loss of €53 million in the same period of 2014 – and insisted that the express operator's takeover by rival FedEx was still on course for the first half of this ... [+]

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