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Southampton-based Solent Stevedores has set up a subsidiary company, Saint-Malo Stevedores.
It has committed to invest €1million in new equipment in the French Channel Port and has secured a €200,000 grant from the Brittany region. The investment includes the purchase of new tugs for ro ro operations, forklifts and a loading shovel.
Operations by 14 dockers and a two-strong management team will see up to 200,000 tonnes of dry bulk and break ...
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Freight Software Group (FSG) has appointed Richard Litchfield as managing director of its Forward Computers business. He was previously group IT director at Europa Worldwide Group and vice president and global head of IS road logistics at Kuehne & Nagel in Switzerland. He was responsible for designing and implementing Europa's ...
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DFDS reports a near 100% utilisation of its Dunkerque-Rosslare route, opened on 2 January. The service is operated by three ships, with the larger MV Drottenreplacing the Optima Seaways soon after the launch. DFDS has appointed additional staff in Rosslare who are now being trained with more positions due to ...
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Le Shuttle Freight traffic fell by 37% in January compared with January 2020, to 82,484 vehicles. The operator blamed stockpiling towards the end of last year before Brexit, the need to adjust to the new post-Brexit border requirements and constraints linked to the health crisis with the compulsory requirement to ...
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Turkish Cargo is to hold an online webinar exploring the future of the industry at 11.30-14.30 (UK time) on Wednesday 10 February. Topics will include digitisation and vaccine transportation.
To register, visit: https://www.cargotalksbyturkishcargo.com/
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Exceptional times call for exceptional measures. The past year has been a real challenge – and air cargo executives around the world have often asked us, the freight publications, to help express their gratitude to those who have kept the world moving.
So nine air freight titles have suspended competitive concerns ...
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Ports throughout the UK have been submitting their bids for Freeport status, ahead of the Government’s deadline on 5 February. A decision by the Treasury on which ports will qualify is expected in the Spring.
They include the Thames Freeport consortium which has lodged a planfor a digitally-linked economic zone connecting ...
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Stena Lines chief executive Niclas Mårtensson told a press conference in Gothenburg on 4 February that his company planned to start operating battery powered vessels on the 50-mile route between Gothenburg and Frederikshavn no later than 2030.
In an effort to speed up the transition to fossil-free fuels in the transport ...
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Poul Hestbaek is to take over as chief executive of Hamburg Süd from Dr Arnt Vespermann. Hestbaek has been with Hamburg Süd since 2004 and is currently the Chief Commercial Officer of the now AP Moller-Maersk-owned company.
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Royal Mail and Prologis UK are building a new parcels hub at Daventry International Rail Freight Terminal (DIRFT) that could handle trains operating through the Channel Tunnel. Once built, the 840,000sq ft Midlands site will become Royal Mail’s largest parcel hub with capacity to process over 1m parcels per day.
It will have an automated parcel sorting system and a ...
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