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Coastlink has published the draft agenda for its forthcoming conference to be held in Zeebrugge on 20-21 February. The theme will be the impact of 18,000teu vessels on intra-European networks and there will be speaksers from the ports, container shipping industry, inland waterways and the logistics industry.
http://www.coastlink.co.uk/calendar_of_events.htm
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Eurotunnel officially launched its new MyFerryLink ferry alternative to its tunnel shuttles on 10 December, promising a “businesslike approach” with a management team drawn from the private sector. Freight director Jean-Michel Copyans joins the new subsidiary from Brittany Ferries and, said Eurotunnel CEO, Jacques Gounon, the new management team would be ...
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The Government has rejected a privatisation plan drawn up by the Port of Dover, transport minister Simon Burns announced on 20 December. The plan has been mired in controversy ever since it was drawn up, including an alternative 'People's Port' scheme for an alternative community-based scheme. Ferry operators were also ...
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ACS’s Charity Committee holds various fund-raising events throughout the year and activities such as quiz nights, parties and an entry in The Great River Race have all added up to an impressive total. Each year the company choses three charities to which to donate - this year the vote went ...
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British Airways says it will have the UK's only direct service to Chengdu when it starts direct 777 flights from Heathrow on three days a week from 22 September 2013. The central Chinese city has one of the country's fastest-growing economies.
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Britain's Rail Freight Group has welcomed the decision of the French Competition Authority on 18 December to fine SNCF € 60.9 million for preventing or delaying the entry of new operators into the rail freight market. RFG chairman Tony Berkeley said: “For UK operators and customers wanting to run more ...
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Hugh Cushing, head of logistics provider Toll Group’s global forwarding division, is to retire in November 2013. Paul Coutts, currently Toll Global Forwarding’s product, marketing and sales director will take over the role from February this year.
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The Welsh Assembly Government (WAG) may buy Cardiff Airport from current owners TBI. First Minister of Wales, Carwyn Jones, said on 18 December that the WAG had entered into an exclusive ‘due diligence’ agreement with TBI and, subject to satisfactory completion may then buy the airport.
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Five more companies have joined the Cargo Incident Notification System (CINS), created in late 2010 by , five of the top 20 liner shipping operators to capture key data about potentially dangerous incidents. The members have meanwhile been populating the database – hosted by the COA (Container Owners’ Association) – ...
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German-owned shipping lines Hapag-Lloyd and Hamburg Süd are investing a possible merger. According to a press release, the two companies’ executive boards are investigating whether, and under what conditions, such a move would be of interest.
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