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ABP’s Port of Southampton has made Southampton Sight its Charity of the Year for 2020.
The charity, based on Bassett Avenue, works with people living with sight loss by providing information, equipment or visual aids, arranging volunteers or offering emotional reassurance.
It was chosen following a vote by ABP employees. Each year ABP in Southampton selects a single charity to give staff a focus for their fundraising efforts during the year. Charities ...
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The Global Shippers’ Forum (GSF) has called on the European Commission to change its criteria for allowing shipping line consortia.
The EU Consortia Block Exemption Regulation (CBER), which allows shipping lines to exchange information and to co-operate, is due to expire in April and the Commission is currently assessing responses to ...
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Cardinal Maritime Groups’s project freight arm Origin Logistics UK, has been rebranded as ‘Cardinal - The Logistics People’. In the early stages of the development of Manchester-based Cardinal Maritime, it was decided that the projects and specialist freight services division should be branded separately and has since 2006 been known as ...
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The Freight Transport Association’s Northern Ireland policy manager Seamus Leheny, has welcomed the news that the province’s administration in Stormont is to sit again. He said it would bring logistics businesses “long-overdue reassurance that the sector’s concerns, and the future of NI trade, can once again be prioritised by government”.
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Like the shy and secretive badger after which it is named, the infrastructure put in place for the Operation Brock scheme to keep traffic flowing on Kent’s motorways has proved to be an elusive beast.
A few months after the steel barrier on the London-bound carriageway of the M20 was completed ...
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Maritime Intermodal has launched a new five-day-a-week rail freight service between Felixstowe and the new East Midlands Gateway EMG).
It has capacity for up to 70 containers, and is Maritime Intermodal’s seventh daily rail freight service, with further services expected to be announced in the coming months.
Maritime’s managing director of intermodal ...
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Marine insurance expert Peter Lole has died. Born in 1937, in London, he started his 56-year long career with Lloyds broker Holmwoods & Back Manson, before joining the Navy to do his two years’ National Service, when he was involved in the Suez Crisis in 1956.
After returning to Lloyds he ...
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The government appears to be trying to reduce public attention and parliamentary oversight of Brexit, says director of Leeds-based Tudor International Freight, Adam Johnson.
It is abolishing the dedicated Department for Exiting the EU, and the House of Commons Brexit select committee, at the end of this month and, according to ...
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The UK’s ratification in December of the e-CMR protocol will go a long way towards overcoming potential Brexit barriers, says the International Road Transport Union.
The UK is the 24th country to endorse the digital version of the United Nations Convention for the carriage of goods via road offers lower costs, ...
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The International Transport Workers’ Federation (ITF), the European Transport Workers’ Federation (ETF) and national trade unions have served formal notice on XPO Logistics Europe under the French Corporate Duty of Vigilance Law. They described a company statement saying that XPO believed it had already fulfilled their obligations with a two-page ...
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