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Peel Ports has completed its first, £27 million, round of investment at its 50-acre Wellmarsh site in Sheerness. A further 25-acres of timber storage facilities have been constructed, and the port is currently the largest terminal of its kind in the UK, handling 1.3 million tonnes of timber and forest products a year. The custom-built facility includes covered and open storage. Future development includes flexible storage and purpose-built logistics facilities, ...
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Part and full load operator Continental Cargo Carriers has completed relocation of its Ramsgate sales and operations team to Dartford following its acquisition by Europa Worldwide Group last year. CCC will be run as a totally separate operation from Europa.
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Budapest Airport will host The International Air Cargo (TIACA) executive summit and annual general meeting on 20-22 November. It brings together decision makers from across the globe for a panel discussions, keynote speeches, and round table debates. The airport will host an opening ceremony for its new dedicated freight centre, ...
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A fifth of all peak season shipments require additional fees while around a quarter of shipments fail to make the first available sailing, according to a survey by the Freightos online marketplace.
Freightos surveyed decision makers at some80 logistics providers and cargo owners to find out how they manage ocean ...
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MSC is to introduce a new call in Liverpool, as part of a rotation including Canada, Turkey and southern European ports. It follows the news that the 2M alliance, of which MSC is a member with Maersk, will make Liverpool a permanent call on its TA4 transatlantic service.
The new Canada ...
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Queues of lorries are building up on roads leading to the French Channel as French customs officers stage a work-to-rule, imposing more checks on trucks as part of a protest aimed at securing better pay and conditions.
The jams built up on Tuesday (5 March) on the approaches to Calais ...
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The Freight Transport Association called on the Government to clarify its plans for the amount of customs duty that will be payable on imported goods in the event of a No Deal Brexit.
It says it has sent mixed signals, only saying that it will announce the UK Customs tariff "shortly". ...
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FTA is reminding hauliers to register their commercial trailers with the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency (DVLA) before planning to take them into any European country that ratified the 1968 Vienna Convention on Road Traffic after 28 March. (Not all EU countries ratified the Convention including Spain, Malta and Ireland). ...
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Freight Management Ltd is to represent independent forwarder network the WACO System in Bangladesh. FML employs 117 staff in offices in the capital Dhaka, and the port city of Chittagong, providing road, air and ocean services.
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US-owned global logistics company CH Robinson is to acquire The Space Cargo Group, which provides freight forwarding, customs brokerage and other logistics services in Spain and Colombia, for €42 million (US $48m). Headquartered in Madrid, Space Cargo provides ocean and air freight forwarding, customs brokerage and other logistics services, to ...
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