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Counterfeiters have already targeted Covid 19 vaccines “multiple times” warns insurers, the TT Club. Managing director of loss prevention, Mike Yarwood, says that two organisations have recently been broken up. In one case more than 3,000 saline filled vials were being sold as authentic vaccines and seized in Chinese police raids.
In another raid 400 vials, the equivalent of around 2,400 doses, were discovered to contain fake vaccine in a warehouse ...
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Transaid has launched its Way of the Roses 2021 UK Cycle Challenge, laying down the gauntlet to all MAMILs (Middle-Aged Men in Lycra, or transport and logistics industry professionals as the transport charity prefers to call them) to gear up for the 170 miles from Morecambe in Lancashire to Bridlington ...
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The International Transport Workers’ Federation (ITF) has called for seafarers and aviation workers to be prioritised by governments in their Covid-19 vaccination programmes. It follow a joint UN statement supporting this position.
ITF says that transport workers and their families have been in the front lines of moving people and cargo ...
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The Royal Alfred Seafarers’ Society has planted a rose garden at its maritime care home in the Surrey town of Banstead, to celebrate the centenary of the seafarer charity Stella Maris (formerly the Apostleship of the Sea).
It features the Stella Maris rose, a Hybrid Tea rose cultivated by Harkness Roses ...
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Ship operators caught up in the Suez blockage should come directly to Gothenburg and unload containers bound for both Scandinavia and Europe there rather than get caught up in congestion in North-West Europe, suggest the port authority and terminal operator terminal operator APM.
Cargo can be transhipped to smaller feeder vessels ...
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Evergreen Line says that the Ever Given has been refloated at about 15:00 29 March local time (14.00 UK time). The vessel is leaving the grounding site with assistance of tugboats, in order for the Suez Canal to resume normal operation.
The chartered vessel, which was en route from the Far ...
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The two ports which made the successful Thames Freeport bid, London Gateway and Tilbury, say they have received more new enquiries from businesses looking to relocate to the site this month than at any point in the last decade. They have ranged from space for industrial processes, manufacturing and logistics ...
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Short-sea operator CLdN is increasing capacity and frequency on its service from Santander to Liverpool and Dublin to twice-weekly. Currently it is operating a weekly service out of Santander, calling Liverpool and Dublin separately, saying that it was forced to detach the respective services at the beginning of this year ...
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The UK government has set out new details of the new Covid testing regime that will apply to international arrivals in England from 6 April, including truck drivers.
They will be one of a limited number of professions that will be exempt from quarantining in order to keep freight and other ...
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The Evergreen containership Ever Given that has been wedged aground blocking the Suez Canal has been partially freed, raising hopes that the vital waterway could be fully open again within hours. Tug boats have succeeded in moving the vessel away from the canal banks.
If these efforts are successful, it means ...
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