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The ports of Antwerp and Zeebrugge have announced a merger that will create Europe’s largest container port by tonnage, handling 157 million tonnes a year - Port of Antwerp-Bruges. It will be the 13th largest port in the world in TEU terms, one of the largest break bulk ports and the largest port for the transhipment of vehicles in Europe.
The two ports are about 50 miles apart, as the crow ...
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Agility and its digital innovation arm, Shipa, have launched a bonded, express road freight network across the Arabian Gulf region. It offers less-than-truckload and full truckload service with daily departures and scheduled pickups in the UAE, Saudi Arabia, Oman, Kuwait and Bahrain. It draws on Agility’s warehousing network and road ...
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Air Atlanta Icelandic has introduced weekly 747-400 freighter flights between Liege, Belgium and Miami International Airport. It is the fourth freighter operator to launch services between Belgium and the Florida gateway in the past 12 months. Air Atlanta Icelandic is using Boeing B747-400F aircraft with a maximum payload of 127 ...
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Secretary general of the Global Shippers Forum, James Hookham, has described moves by leading forwarder Geodis and German purchasing group Xstaff to charter their own container ships from the Far East to Europe to beat soring liner rates and space shortages as “a really good innovation that should be welcomed”.
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Logistics UK has been invited to join the government’s Brexit Business Taskforce.
The invitation, by Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster Michael Gove, is in recognition of the group’s work helping government to keep Britain trading throughout the Brexit process. Logistics UK chief executive And, as David Wells, said: “We are ...
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The Port of Southampton is upgrading 430 metres of quayside to support its project cargo and ro ro operations, as well as the new cruise terminal. More than 400 metres of quayside – the length of four football pitches – is being upgraded to reinforce the structure and to incorporate ...
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British Chambers of Commerce director of trade facilitation, Liam Smyth, says his members have suiffered additional costs in terms of both time and money, and many businesses had turned away from international trade as a result.
He told witnesses at a House of Commons International Trade Committee enquiry on 11 February ...
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Maersk has operated a dedicated block train from China to Poland to deliver PPE for medical supplier Zarys International Group, and commissioned by the Polish Material Reserves Agency. The 41-container-long block train operated from Yiwu to the intermodal terminal in Małaszewicze, where it arrived on 8 February. The protective equipment ...
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Traffic through Cork was down 2% to 9.2 million tonnes in 2020 due to the challenges posed by Covid 19 but containers were up 4% at 250,000teu, said the port in its latest statistics.
The Port attributed the strong performance to introduction of several new services. In April 2020, CLdN Ro-Ro ...
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As National Apprenticeship week comes nears its end, the British International Freight Association has repeated its call for freight forwarding and logistics companies to consider recruiting apprentices.
Executive director Carl Hobbis said: “We know it’s a tough call, with the pandemic and the post transition period continuing to disrupt many freight ...
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