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The Cargo Incident Notification System (CINS) and the International Group of P&I Clubs have published new guidelines for the carriage of seed cake in containers (http://www.cinsnet.com/newsy/) Seed cake is the term used for pulp, meals, cake, pellets, expellers and other similar cargo, where edible vegetable oils have been removed from oil-bearing seeds, cereals or commodities with similar properties. The document aims to improve safety of the commodity and to ensure ...
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The Freight Transport Association is calling on the government to answer questions about the UK’s future trading arrangements with the EU after the Brexit transition period. following comments from the Chancellor, Sajid Javid, suggesting a hardening in the government’s approach to Brexit, and his suggestion that industry has had more ...
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PD Ports has become one of the first UK port operators to achieve certification to the ISO 50001 Energy standard across all its 13 operations.
After previously achieving ISO 14001 in 2012, the port operator successfully achieved ISO 50001 accreditation for reaching the international standard for energy management without any non-conformances ...
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The global utilisation of air cargo capacity is 35% higher than the traditional industry indicator suggests, according to Clive Data Services, which has devised a new ‘dynamic load factor’ method of analysis.
Managing director, Niall van de Wouw says that Clive’s new Selfie app’ reveals that air cargo load factors based ...
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Kuehne + Nagel is to combine its two existing Asian organisations into a single region as part of its focus on the Far East over the coming year. The two current regional managers Jens Drewes and Siew Loong Wong will jointly lead the development of Kuehne + Nagel in Asia ...
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The chief inspector of marine accidents said that forecast weather conditions had not been considered and cargo was not lashed properly in a report into the accident to European Causeway on 18 December 2018. Freight vehicles shifted inside the vehicles deck of the ro-ro passenger ferry en route from Larne ...
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Dublin Port’s unitised volumes (ro-ro and lo-lo containers combined) grew3.6% to 1.5 million units in 2019 and has increased by 41.3% over the six years since the economic recovery began in 2013, it said.
But the continued strength in unitised growth in 2019 was offset by a large one-off decline in ...
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THE Alliance - Hapag-Lloyd, Ocean Network Express, and Yang Ming - has revealed details of its expanded network of ocean container services following the addition of Hyundai Merchant Marine (HMM) from 1 April. It includes a new pendulum service replacing the existing Asia-Europe FE5 and Transpacific PS7 services. It will ...
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Freight forwarder DSV has provided a new warehouse for the Danish Red Cross to help it to respond quickly to disasters anywhere in the world.
The new facilities are in the first part of the Hedeland distribution centre which will have a total capacity of 150,000sq m. With the more flexible ...
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Basketball star and broadcaster Ade Adepitan revealed the winners of the British International Freight Association’s Freight Service Awards 2019 on 16 January.
The winners of the eight General, Modal, and Specialist categories in the Awards, which has established a benchmark of quality for the British freight forwarding industry for more than ...
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