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Just days after DP World London Gateway welcomed the world’s biggest container ship, the HMM Algeciras, it was turn of brother port DP World Southampton to welcome its largest ever vessel, the HMM Oslo at 399.9m, 61.5m wide and with a capacity of 23,820teu.
Technically, the two are not in fact sister-ships; the capacities of the two variants are slightly different, at 23,964teu for the DSME ships (HMM Algeciras class), and ...
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Airport handling company Swissport says it will cut 4,556 jobs in the UK – over half its 8,500-strong workforce - blaming the effects of the corona crisis. The company emplys cargo handlers as well as staff dealing with passenger bagge and check-in.
Chief executive Jason Holt said the drastic measure would ...
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CLdN is to introduce a weekly triangular ro ro-service between Santander, Liverpool and Dublin. It will cater for unaccompanied, containers and project traffic. CLdN’s UK sales manager Mike Lewis, said that ports in the north were able to offer hugely reduced waiting times, storage and efficient onward routes. It brings ...
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DHL co-founder Bill Robinson passed away on 10 June. Born in 1938, He founded the carrier in 1969 while employed as a driver for a local courier company with Larry Hillblom Adrian Dalsey, Robert Lynn and other workmates, offering an alternative to the mail and airfreight to move business documents ...
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UPS has launched a new range of recylable packaging for shipping individual bottles of spirits and wine, to help producers in the UK and Ireland reach new customers. Designed in conjunction with Smurfit Kappa and distributor Macfarlane Packaging, it addresses the challenge of packing bottles that come in a range ...
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European forwarder’s group CLECAT has signed an agreement to raise awareness of freight and shipping analyst Drewry’s Forwarder Benchmarking Club amongst its membership. Launched in 2019, Drewry Forwarder Benchmarking Club follows a similar model to Drewry’s other freight cost benchmarking services, providing a confidential, closed user group through which members ...
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DHL Express Germany and Munich Airport have signed a contract to build a new freight building. The site will compromise a gross floor area of over 8,000sq m on land leased from the airport and will include direct airside access and two ‘fingers’ for pick-up and delivery where up to ...
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ABP’s Port of Cardiff has commenced a new contract with fuels and petrochemical product refiner Valero.
The new long-term agreement includes occupation of a 12-acre storage and distribution terminal adjacent to ABP’s Roath Dock which will be fed by coastal tankers. Valero uses a coastal shipping service linking its West Wales ...
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World trade fell sharply in the first half of the year, as the COVID-19 pandemic upended the global economy, according to the World Trade Organisation (WTO) but rapid government responses helped temper the contraction. WTO economists now believe that while trade volumes will register a steep decline in 2020, they ...
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Qatar Airways has increased its flights between its Doha hub and Dublin from five weekly to daily. It is part of a general increase in frequencies to other hubs, including Milan, Rome and Singapore. It has also reintroduced flights to Budapest, Dar es Salaam, Dhaka, Istanbul and New York.
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