March 2024
Associated British Ports (ABP) has broken ground on the first phase of the ABP Solent Gateway development of the Port of Marchwood. MP for New Forest East, Sir Julian Lewis, officially started the construction of the 21-acre site development accompanied by representatives from Hampshire County Council, New Forest District Council, the Solent Freeport and UK Government departments.
The development, backed by £25 million of investment for this first phase, will improve ...
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FTA Ireland (FTAI), which represents businesses moving goods within and across the country’s borders, has described the latest government report as a missed opportunity to improve distribution.
FTAI chief executive Aidan Flynn says that the document, A Strategic Approach to the Improved Efficiency of the Transport System in Ireland, ignores the ...
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The Hamburg-Odessa Port Bridge alliance has sent urgent relief supplies to a children's hospital in the Odessa region. Several partners have joined forces in the alliance to support the people of Odessa and the region affected by the war including the Ukrainian Relief Corps, Hamburger Hafen und Logistik AG (HHLA), ...
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Trans Global Projects (TGP) has made three new key appointments to its team in Bremen, Germany. Morten Guba and Nicholas Schubert have been recruited as project managers, while Knuth Meinardus has joined as sales manager.
Managing director for Germany, Andreas Menzel, said: “We made a strategic decision to grow both our ...
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Logistics UK is urging the government to clarify its post-Brexit border arrangements with the EU. It says that its members still lack critical information about how the new Border Target Operating Model is to work.
“For the past seven years, since the Brexit vote, the logistics industry has been urging government ...
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Captain Rahul Khanna, global head of marine risk consulting at insurer, Allianz Commercial says that there have been almost 2,000 reported incidents of vessels colliding with port infrastructure such as harbour walls over the past decade around the world and 203 contact with infrastructure incidents involving container ships - most ...
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Two new Port of Greenock cranes will henceforth be known as Craner Swift (Taylor Swift) and U-Crane Bolt (Usain Bolt) after creative local schoolkids won the chance to name the huge structures.
Avaleigh Lang, 10, of Lady Alice Primary in Greenock, chose Craner Swift as a nod to the US pop ...
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The global freight industry is continuing to digest the likely impact of the Baltimore accident on the evening of 26 March after a 10,000teu container vessel hit the Francis Scott Key Bridge road bridge in Baltimore at about 01.30 US Eastern time (5.30GMT), causing it to completely collapse with ...
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Tendring District Council has approved a 117 hectare natural habitats and wildlife sanctuary as part of the Bathside Bay port expansion project in Harwich. The new development will create a mixture of estuarine and coastal habitats, including intertidal mudflat and saltmarsh.
Bathside Bay is part of Freeport East, which also includes ...
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Challenge Group is to use its second converted B767 freighter to establish a twice-weekly route between Mumbai (BOM) in India and Liège (LGG) in Belgium.
It offers a payload of 52 tons per uplift, the freighter and is expected to carry mainly pharmaceuticals and electronics, along with large and complex main ...
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