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GE Renewable Energy is to build a blade manufacturing plant at Teesport creating 750 new jobs. The PD Ports-owned facility is close to one of the UK’s largest offshore wind projects, Dogger Bank.
PD Ports’ chief operating officer and vice chairman, Jerry Hopkinson, said: “GE’s commitment to the region builds on the number of world-class offshore manufacturers based in Teesport, including industry leading JDR Cables in Hartlepool, Middlesbrough-based Wilton Engineering and ...
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Immingham-based intermodal and international haulier , Brit-Pol has received a £2.5m funding facility from Bibby Financial Services. It collects goods in Europe and delivers to Germany, the Netherlands and the UK. It also serves all major Humber ports well as rail depots at Rotherham, Doncaster and Leeds.
Established in 2011 by ...
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The Port of Grangemouth opened its new £3 million rail freight hub with the arrival DRS’s (Direct Rail Service) Aberdeen freight train service.
The new dual rail siding of 775 metres – previously 200 metres – can handle the longest freight trains on the UK network.
Grangemouth senior port manager Derek Knox ...
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It’s not only the Covid 19 vaccine that is being flown around the world – other types of vaccine continue to be an important traffic for the world’s carriers. In March, Etihad Cargo and Expolanka Freight (EFL) carried collaborated to carry a 12.5 million Tetanus and Diphtheria vaccine doses from ...
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GPS Marine and Green Biofuels are now using their new fuel bunker barge, the Dispenser to refuel the tug delivering tunnel lining ring segments for the Thames Tideway Central Section, along with a growing number of other commercial vessels on and around the Thames. The Dispenser will supply GreenD+, which ...
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Supply chain software and services specialist BluJay Solutions has launched an Augmented Global Trade (AGT) software as a service platform to enhance and automate customs and compliance requirements for international trade. The company says that it improves efficiency and reduces risk for logistics service providers, carriers, and shippers managing complex ...
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GB Railfreight has started a rail service between the Port of Felixstowe and Maritime Transport’s Wakefield Europort terminal. It is GBRf’s seventh intermodal into a Maritime facility and will operate from Monday to Friday.
The train is made up of a mix of wagon types to allow for enhanced flexibility and ...
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American Airlines has reached an agreement in principle to allocate a portion of the carbon reduction benefit it generates through its use of sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) to Kuehne+Nagel. It is believed to be the largest SAF collaboration between a freight company and an airline, and is based on 3 ...
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National distribution business Swain Group has won a contract to provide port centric storage and distribution for natural stone supplier, Global Stone. Swain will dedicate two acres of its existing storage site at DP World London Gateway to the management of Global Stone’s inbound containers though both London Gateway and ...
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The US Transportation Department (DOT) has granted tentative approval for Irish carrier Aer Lingus to begin marketing planned services between the Manchester and the US, reports the Routes Online website. The airline applied to the DOT in December to operate transatlantic service from Manchester to Boston, New York JFK and ...
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