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Volga-Dnepr moved a 32-metre long Atlas 5 rocket booster from Huntsville, Alabama to Cape Canaveral for a scheduled mission to Mars on board an AN-124-100 ‘Ruslan’ freighter. The specialist airline also transported payload fairings and RD-180 engines for the mission.
The launch is scheduled for 9:10 a.m. on July 17.
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The British Ports Association and the UK Customs Academy are holding a free introductory online training course on customs rules at 2pm-3.30pm on 23 June. BPA says that while most requirements will be on freight operators and cargo owners, port operations will have some new responsibilities and the session will ...
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The British Ports Association is to postpone its 2020 Annual Conference scheduled for October in Aberdeen until next year, 6-7 October 2021. Anyone who has booked a Partnership Package or made enquiries with the sponsorship team you will have been contacted directly by them to discuss options for the rescheduled ...
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Royal Mail has increased its use of ASM’s Sequoia customs clearance software platform to boost the number of operatives able to process parcels at the same time. It will help meet unprecedented demand for e-commerce deliveries during the Covid-19 pandemic. Royal Mail can now have more of its operatives logged ...
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DP World has completed acquisition of a 51% stake in TIS Container Terminal in the Port of Yuzhny, Ukraine, following regulatory approval from government authorities. It allows the port operator to offer a Black Sea service linking its terminals in Constanta and Yarimca with TIS Container Terminal using its Unifeeder ...
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The Freight Transport Association has written to Michael Gove asking for sufficient time allowed at the end of the negotiations to enable the logsitics industry to adapt to new arrangements, whatever is agreed.
Policy director Elizabeth de Jong said on 10 June that it looked looks more and more likely that ...
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GB Railfreight has signed a new contract to lease 52 more Ecofret2 Intermodal wagons from VTG Rail UK. The operator has already signed deals with the leasing company for 32 similar wagons which will enter service in 2020 and 2021. The wagons allow for more containers to be carried per ...
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Ashley Nicholson, senior harbour master at Forth Ports' Grangemouth and president elect of the UK Harbour Masters Association has been appointed permanently to the latter role. She will serve for two years, succeeding Shoreham Port’s Julian Seaman.
[caption id="attachment_30339" align="alignleft" width="200"] Picture: Peter Devlin[/caption]
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DHL Global Forwarding has appointed Gisele Bambara as country manager in Burkina Faso, Lamine Junior Cisse in Senegal (retaining the role of industrial projects commercial manager) and his predecessor, Elhadji Galaye Ndaw, in Cote d’Ivoire. All three will report directly to DHL Global Forwarding, West Africa, chief executive, Serigne Ndanck ...
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Maersk Line has increased the frequency of its AE19 Asia/Northern Europe ocean-rail service, from monthly and west-bound only to fortnightly in both directions. It uses a sea leg between Busan to Vostochy with rail for the Vostochy/St Petersburg section and with transit times from 16 days.
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