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Roads Minister Mike Penning has given the green light to limited trails of longer trucks on UK roads. Following consultation on proposals to allow a two metre increase in the length of articulated lorries, the Department for Transport is allowing a ten-year trial of up to 900 trailers at an increased length of 2.05 metres, and 900 that would be one metre longer. There will be no increase to the ...
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Romanian contract logistics specialist Tibbett Logistics, part of UK-based Keswick Enterprises group, has signed afive-year contract to extend operations at the Europolis Park to the west of Bucharest. Tibbett Logistics has operated from a facility at Europolis Park since 2008 and has now contracted operations there until mid-2016. The site ...
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Stena Line has appointed Jamie Christon as route director on its Dun Laoghaire/Holyhead and Dublin/Holyhead routes. He joins from Exeter International Airport where he was managing director and prior to this he worked for Manchester Airports Group.
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The International Air Cargo Association, is calling for “a groundswell of opposition” after the European Court of Justice ruled that aviation could be included in the European Union’s Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS). It wants other associations, businesses and international governments to intensify lobbying efforts for a review of ETS after ...
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The British International Freight Association (BIFA) is urging its members to support the haulage industry's FairFuelUK campaign. BIFA director general, Peter Quantrill said that uncertainty over fuel prices is one of the biggest concerns of its members who pay the highest diesel taxes in Europe.
He said: “Previously, BIFA has asked ...
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Food and drink group Princes has increased its commitment to use the Manchester Ship Canal following the signing of an earlier agreement with canal operator Peel Ports to switch 3,000teu per year from road to barge. The company now expects to switch around 6,500teu to the canal, reducing its road ...
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Davies Turner said that it plans to increase the numbers taken on this year, following the success of the first phase of its training programme. The UK-based forwarder said that all but one of the apprentices it had taken on are still in the scheme.
Chairman Philip Stephenson said it was ...
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HRH Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh visited DP World's London Gateway during the same week that the country's newest and biggest container port would open in the fourth quarter of 2013.
The Duke was welcomed by joint vice chairman of DP World Sir John Parker and the London Gateway team, who ...
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Kuehne + Nagel inaugurated a new logistics facility inside Contecar Port, Cartagena in Colombia on 6 October at a ceremony attended by Transport Minister, German Cardona, and KN International chairman Karl Gernandt. The new centre provides 10,000sq m warehouse space and 11,000 pallet positions and enables KN to expand its ...
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Stena Line said on 5 October that it had completed integration of the Liverpool and Heysham routes which it acquired from DFDS. Since approval for the purchase of the routes was given in June, it had carried out a major systems integration project. The two new routes brings the total ...
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