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The Port of Tyne is sponsoring Northumberland Mind’s Healthy Body, Healthy Mind Community Sessions, which help people to access wellbeing and resilience sessions, workshops and activities within their local community. The funding will enable Mind to deliver sessions through to October 2021.
The port’s director of human resources and communications Louise Tinkler, said “The Port of Tyne is committed to supporting its local community, and we hope that the sessions will ...
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The British Ports Association (BPA) has published an agenda outlining the industry's requests of government for the coming years.
The BPA’s 2020 New Government Briefing outlines how industry and government can work in partnership to deliver for ports and the leading issues that the UK ports industry is currently facing.
They include ...
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The Kyrgyzstan-Tajikistan-Afghanistan-Iran corridor has opened for TIR transit. It follows a pilot operation from Bandar Abbas (Iran) to Tajikistan via Afghanistan. The corridor offers the shortest possible route between Iran and Kyrgyzstan, saving up to five days on the usual transit time.
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Birmingham-based freight forwarder Millennium Cargo has joined the Magnet Logistics Network. It said it would give it a platform to broaden its reach across the international stage.
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Automotive logistics firm GEFCO Group is offering its customers, a secure and customised web portal developed by WiseTech Global to manage all freight forwarding shipments from booking to invoicing.
GEFCO Visibility offers various modules, including a reporting module to extract detailed reports on forwarding activity and a finance module which provides ...
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The International Air Transport Association (IATA) said that global air freight demand decreased by 3.3% in January 2020 compared with January 2019 but that it is unlikely that the corona virus outbreak had very much to do with the weak performance. Lunar New Year in 2020 was earlier than in ...
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The Coronavirus is a real threat to the supply chain, warns Steve Purvis, operations director at property firm Bis Henderson Space. Hyundai has temporarily closed South Korean plants because of a shortage of wiring harnesses, Fiat Chrysler reported that one European plant is two weeks from closure because of shutdowns ...
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Forth Ports’ senior harbour master, Ashley Nicolson scooped the Women in Industry award at the Centre for Engineering Education and Development Industry Awards 2020.
She is part of the marine team at Forth Ports which manages and operates an area of 280 square miles of navigable waters on the Forth and ...
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Rail Minister, Chris Heaton-Harris joined Maritime Transport, property firm SEGRO and more than 350 guests to officially open the new strategic rail freight interchange at East Midlands Gateway.b The Minister said: “This new Gateway provides direct access to the UK’s major ports, demonstrating that Britain is open for business and ...
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Emirates SkyCargo is using Accuity’s Firco Trade Compliance solution to automate and streamline its screening operations. The system screens shipment documentation such as airway bills against sanctions, dual-use goods and regulatory watch lists, automating 6 million compliance checks a month. Cargo operators are responsible for verifying the legitimacy of senders ...
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