September 2019
PD Ports won Business of the Year at the Rail Freight Group’s (RFG) annual awards ceremony on 12 September. The judges praised its outstanding commitment to its customers and to the wider local community in the North East and were particularly impressed by PD Ports’ show of industry leadership in the way it promotes rail freight services and by launching a second weekly service to Scotland at the business’ own ...
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DHL Freight has opened its new Hanover hub at Airport Business Park in Langenhagen. The 8,700 m² transshipment terminal has over 86 loading bays, handling road freight for both the Europe-wide all-in-one groupage service Euroconnect and the Eurapid premium groupage service is handled. The 290-strong team include experts to assist ...
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Belfast Harbour pledged to become “the best regional port in the world” when it announced its Strategic Plan, published at its Annual Stakeholder Meeting on 12 September, together with an outlook to 2035.
Long-term proposals include schemes to deepen the port’s shipping channel to accommodate larger vessels and new deep-water quays, ...
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HMRC will prioritise keeping goods flowing across the Channel, even over securing government revue, after Brexit, FBJ has been given to understand. All stops are bing pulled out to ensure that Channel ports do not seize up after Brexit day – currently scheduled for 31 October.
The Transitional Simplified Procedures also ...
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The Freight Transport Association says that an expanded Heathrow Airport is vital to support the UK's global trading ambitions after Brexit, according to FTA, as consultation on the controversial third runway closed on 13 September.
Head of multimodal policy Alex Veitch, warned that air freight growth had stalled in recent years due to capacity constraints, and a ...
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Ports bring £9.7 billion of direct value to the UK economy, 115,000 direct jobs within the sector in 2018 and 431,000 in the wider supply chain plus 277,000 through wider spending - a total of 822,000 - according to research commissioned by the British Ports Association and UK Major Ports Group.
Each job is 55% more productive than the UK average, according ...
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Port of Tyne says that it has imported imported 45 tonnes of coffee beans in the first three weeks of a new partnership with Newcastle-owned Ringtons - enough to make 4.5 million cups. The family-owned firm offers a doorstep delivery service but is perhaps best known as a tea merchant. ...
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The iPort Rail inland port has celebrated its first anniversary. The 30-acre facility started operations with a GB Railfreight service to and from Southampton in 2018; links to Felixstowe and two services from Teesport were added in 2019. More services are likely to be announced before the end of the ...
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CMA CGM Group has launched a Rhine Valley Rail service linking the port of Rotterdam with the German hinterland. Six departures per week will run to inland hubs at Dortmund, Duisburg and Ludwigshafen, operated in cooperation with TFG with a first train departure on 18 October.
In Rotterdam, the trains will ...
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French logistics company FM Logistic has opened a 35,000sq m warehouse near the southern Russian city of Rostov-on-Don to serve the region's growing food, retail and manufacturing sectors. Located on a 20 acre-site, the new temperature-controlled warehouse
It will hold up to 50,000 pallets of products and offer services including storage, ...
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