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Ports bring £9.7 billion of direct value to the UK economy, 115,000 direct jobs within the sector in 2018 and 431,000 in the wider supply chain plus 277,000 through wider spending - a total of 822,000 - according to research commissioned by the British Ports Association and UK Major Ports Group.
Each job is 55% more productive than the UK average, according to report, which was produced by the Centre for Economics & Business Research (CEBR).
British Ports Association chairman and chief executive ...
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Port of Tyne says that it has imported imported 45 tonnes of coffee beans in the first three weeks of a new partnership with Newcastle-owned Ringtons - enough to make 4.5 million cups. The family-owned firm offers a doorstep delivery service but is perhaps best known as a tea merchant. ...
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The iPort Rail inland port has celebrated its first anniversary. The 30-acre facility started operations with a GB Railfreight service to and from Southampton in 2018; links to Felixstowe and two services from Teesport were added in 2019. More services are likely to be announced before the end of the ...
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CMA CGM Group has launched a Rhine Valley Rail service linking the port of Rotterdam with the German hinterland. Six departures per week will run to inland hubs at Dortmund, Duisburg and Ludwigshafen, operated in cooperation with TFG with a first train departure on 18 October.
In Rotterdam, the trains will ...
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French logistics company FM Logistic has opened a 35,000sq m warehouse near the southern Russian city of Rostov-on-Don to serve the region's growing food, retail and manufacturing sectors. Located on a 20 acre-site, the new temperature-controlled warehouse
It will hold up to 50,000 pallets of products and offer services including storage, ...
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Turkish Cargo has extended its IATA CEIV (Center of Excellence for Independent Validators) Pharma certificate to 2022. It follows a successful training campaign followed by an IATA audit.
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Paralympian and broadcaster Ade Adepitan is to host BIFA’s Freight Service Awards competition next year.
The awards are open to all members of the trade association, and are sponsored by a number of blue chip companies. The awards ceremony luncheon is an annual event on the industry calendar and, as before, ...
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Lufthansa’s time:matters rapid response logistics arm is now offering a service for dangerous goods Shipments in classes 2 to 9 on passenger and cargo aircraft operated by Lufthansa, Lufthansa Cargo, Austrian Airlines and Brussels Airlines in ten markets - Germany, the US, India, China, Hong Kong, Japan, Thailand, Hungary, France ...
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P&O Ferries has confirmed that it will launch a new freight service in September between Calais and Tilbury – the first regular route from the French port to a destination other than Dover for many years.
It has chartered the Caroline Russ which will operate two sailings every weekday and one on ...
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Eurotunnel truck traffic was down 9% in August 2019 compared to the same month last year said operator Getlink, mainly due to the lack of recovery in the automotive market and a slowdown in UK consumption. Since the beginning of the year, 1,059,127 trucks have crossed the Channel on Le ...
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