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Engineers at Felixstowe docks will take strike action on 27 and 28 December in a dispute over a possible transfer to an outside company, says the Unite trade union.
Some 116 engineers, employed by the Felixstowe Dock and Railway Company, voted 98% in favour of strike action and unanimously for industrial action short of a strike over plans to transfer a number of them to Universal Tyres.
Unite has about 1,900 members ...
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The global maritime industry has submitted a proposal to form the world’s first collaborative shipping research and development programme to help eliminate CO2 emissions from international shipping with core funding from shipping companies of about $5 billion over ten years. It aims to accelerate the development of commercially viable zero-carbon ...
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The British Ports Association is hosting a Port Connectivity Summit this spring to focus attention on the how investment hinterland links can be prioritised. There will be speakers from across the port and shipping sectors and government.
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Project shipping line SAL Heavy Lift is adding three heavy lift vessels with 800t lifting capacity to its fleet in early 2020. They will be used on the carrier’s semi-liner service between Europe and the Far East, and the recently introduced Africa service, but will also potentially offer new service ...
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Lufthansa Cargo is offering online dynamic spot prices that can be booked immediately through its Rapid Rate Response (RRR) mechanism. From December 2019, the system will generate spot price offers for all customers based in a number of pilot markets including Thailand, Vietnam, North and Northeast India, Beijing, Middle East, ...
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The British International Freight Association (BIFA) has appointed David Stroud as its policy and compliance adviser responsible for air freight, security and sustainable logistics and also becomes the manager of BIFA's Air Policy Group. He has held senior management roles with DHL Global Forwarding, Tigers Global Logistics and NNR Global ...
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Swire Shipping and Matson have signed a new vessel sharing partnership from New Zealand to Tonga, Samoa (Apia), Cook Islands and Fiji. The service will depart every 10 days from Auckland, using three 8,000dwt vessels, from January.
Last November, Swire’s parent company China Navigation and the University of the South Pacific ...
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Quality Freight UK has overseen the delivery of three megamax quayside cranes to the Liverpool2 deep-water container terminal.
The ship’s agency arm of the Cheshire-based logistics firm, which was acquired by port of Liverpool owner Peel Ports in May, managed and coordinated the ZH25 transporter vessel which set off from Shanghai ...
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Former Hillebrand director chief executive Chris Porter has joined Kukla Beverage Logistics in a business development role. He will promote the global range of freight and logistics services to the UK drinks industry and to consolidate the growing reputation of the company, established in 2017.
He commented: “I am delighted and ...
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CMA CGM’s Containerships subsidiary has taken delivery of its fourth liquefied natural gas (LNG)-powered vessel, the 1,380teu Containerships Arctic. Following its arrival from Guangzhou Wenchong Shipyard its first LNG bunkering will be carried out in Rotterdam. After which it will be phased into CMA CGM’s Baltic feeder services.
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