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European transport group Samskip has acquired shortsea specialist Sea Connect. The Klaipeda-based shipping company, which will be renamed Samskip Sea Connect, offers shortsea services to Russia, Lithuania, Denmark, Germany and the Netherlands. Sea Connect operates three 1A Ice Class container vessels calling twice a week at St Petersburg and Rotterdam, weekly at Hamburg and at Aarhus sub inducement.
Sea Connect managing director, Viacheslav Puzemskij and SCS-Russia managing director, Anton Larkinwill remain ...
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Family firm Ace Express Freight, based at Blakes Cross in North County Dublin, has the Deloitte Best Managed Company Award, for the 13th year in a row – and one of only 139 companies in the whole of Ireland to do so this year.
ACE is one of the biggest employers ...
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Ship namings are ten a penny but it’s not every day a port is asked to christen its infrastructure. Portsmouth though was recently charged with the task of coming up with a ceremonial name for its recently extended berth and opted to honour engineer, mathematician, physicist, suffragette and inventor Hertha ...
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The Crosby Group is offering a Straightpoint ChainSafe device to protect cargo during transport. The ChainSafe, with a 4t capacity, is a smart dynamic Bluetooth solution that measures the load on lashing, load securement, tie-downs and chain sling legs, and is designed in particular for the transportation and construction industries ...
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Baltic courier company Venipak, which recently launched its own freighter aircraft between Hong Kong and Riga, has also created a new visual identity, Marketing manager Asta Raudonienė, says it reflects the company’s strategic international growth which includes an expanding parcel locker network in the Baltics and a self-service platform, as ...
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The port of Dover’s general cargo terminal handled its largest ever steel vessel when the MV Almar - 197 metres long and 32.2 metres wide - discharged 7,200 tonnes of plate and beams for ParkerSteel.
Dover’s commercial and divisional manager, Karen Hayes, said: “Since our new cargo terminal opened just over ...
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Aberdeen Standard Investments’ Airport Industrial Property Unit Trust (Aiput) says it has almost doubled its ownership of land around Heathrow Airport with the completion of the freehold acquisition of a 75-acre site next to Poyle Trading Estate. It is the largest strategic land transaction in the area for over 20 ...
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The government’s decision to delay full controls on EU goods prompted a guarded response from BIFA members at an online webinar which took place, by coincidence, less than 24 hours after the announcement.
As well as BIFA, the online discussion included presentations from HMRC, DEFRA, and French port authorities.
BIFA director general, ...
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DSV has inaugurated its Gauteng HQ in South Africa, Africa’s largest integrated logistics centre. DSV Park Gauteng is situated near OR Tambo International Airport between Johannesburg and Pretoria and with easy access to the East and West Rand. The logistics centre consists of 130,000sq m of buildings and covers supply ...
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Ireland’s logistics industry is facing its most challenging period and needs effective support from government in the upcoming 2021 Budget, warns FTA Ireland (FTAI).
General manager Aidan Flynn said that with the COVID-19 pandemic, the driver shortage, climate change and the UK’s departure from the EU, there has never before been ...
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