January 2018
Following the announcement on 10 January of record volumes at ABP Southampton, ro ro handler SCH said on 11 January its cargo grew by over 25% in 2017.
With ro-ro import and export volumes breaking the 200,000 unit barrier in 2016, the stevedore and terminal management specialists saw growth climb to more than 280,000 units in 2017.
By far the biggest contributor was cars with volumes increasing by more than 4,000 a ...
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Port of Southampton owner and operator ABP predicts that 2018 looks set to be another record-breaking year.
Director Alastair Welch says that, following the success of 2017, when the largest vessels in the world came to Southampton and more than one million containers were handled by the port, 2018 will see ...
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Following the announcement in June last year that DHL was sponsoring Susie Goodall in the Golden Globe Race in mid-2019, the round-the-world sailor introduced her newly refurbished craft at the London Boat Show on 10 January.
DHL has provided logistics support throughout the refurbishment process, bringing items such as solar panels ...
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The global pharma industry loses over $35bn a year solely as a result of temperature excursions and 30% of scrapped pharmaceutical can be attributed to logistics issues alone, says industry collaboration specialist Alan Kennedy.
Speaking ahead of the roll-out of the Poseidon pharma ocean freight programme at the IQPC Temperature Controlled ...
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Frenk Snoeck has been appointed general manager of Broekman Project Services, taking over from Jos Masselink, who retired on 1 January. The division of the Netherlands-based logistics firm focuses on heavylift cargo as well as handling, assembly, storage, and other activities for complex and overweight cargo.
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Turkish-owned Ekol Logistics is to launch its own operations in Sweden under the Ekol Nordics banner during January 2018 - the 16th country where it has established its own operations.
It will offer international FTL, LTL and groupage transport, initially between the Nordic countries and Turkey, Middle East and other countries where Ekol has its own companies. The next stage ...
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Airfreight handler Worldwide Flight Services (WFS) has signed a 15-year lease on a new 346,000 sq ft cargo terminal, the first phase of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey’s Vision Plan to enhance ageing facilities at the US gateway. WFS is already one of the largest handlers ...
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The John Good Group has recruited a further seven apprentices to its national apprenticeship program, in Hull, Manchester, Felixstowe and London me. The programme began in 2014. Managing director, Seamus Jennings, said that almost all of the apprentices who have started with the business over the past four years are ...
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Freight volumes through the Port of Dover hit a record for the fifth consecutive year in 2017. The port handled 2,601,162 lorries, up by almost 10,000 on the previous record and bringing the total increase over the last five years to just under 650,000 units or 33% per cent. Chief ...
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Caribbean specialist operator Geest Line is to move its south of England call from Portsmouth to Dover following an increase in the size of its ships and to accommodate the need for weekend discharge of cargoes.
Geest has replaced its four chartered vessels with five larger and newer ships, increasing capacity ...
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