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The British Ports Association will be promoting its ‘zoning’ policy in 2019, said chief executive Richard Ballantyne in outlining the key priorities for 2019.
The BPA’s Port Development and Enterprise Zone concept is a vision for areas around ports to be classified with a special planning, consenting, business and regulatory status to help stimulate development and growth. It could lead to the growth of a network regional hubs around port and ...
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Live tests are currently underway to test the feasibility of using the disused Manston airport as an overflow lorry park in the event of post-Brexit problems in Dover or the Channel Tunnel. A fleet of 89 empty trucks, hired-in by the Department for Transport at taxpayer’s expense, set off at ...
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Novatrans subsidiary Greenmodal Transport and Dunkerque-Port have joined forces to extend multimodal services to and from the port. It now serves all major rail hubs in the South of France including Bordeaux, Bayonne, Toulouse, Perpignan, Marseille, Lyon and Avignon and Northern Italy (Turin, Novara, Milan).
The service will be open ...
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Fire broke out in a deck container on board Hapag Lloyd’s 7,510teu Yantian Express 650 miles off the coast of Canada while en route from Colombo to Halifax on 3 January. The crew of were reported unharmed, but efforts to extinguish the fire had to be suspended for the time ...
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DFDS has taken delivery of a new 124 tonne Liebherr mobile harbour crane as part of an investment programme from the start of 2019. The twin-lift container spreader crane will be able to handle containers, project cargo and break-bulk cargo handling. Although classed as a mobile crane, it will spend ...
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SEKO Logistics has acquired Chicago-based forwarder and customer broker and compliance consultancy, GoodShip International. Founded 24 years ago, GoodShip International provides customs brokerage, compliance, air and ocean freight solutions to a range of clients with emphasis on transpacific eastbound cargo movements. SEKO president and chief executive James Gagne said: “GoodShip ...
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Volga-Dnepr Group’s Russian express arm, Atran Airlines has taken delivery of a Boeing 737-400 BCF, bringing its fleet to four freighters. It will be deployed on existing routes between Russia, the CIS and Europe and will and can carry up to 23 tons of cargo
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Austrian-headquartered logistics firm Cargo-partner says that construction of its new iLogistics Center in Ljubljana, Slovenia is making rapid progress. Topping out of the high rack warehouse took place in November all is on schdule for planned opening in the summer. Located next to Ljubljana Airport, the iLogistics Center will provide ...
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Automotive industry freight firms Gefco and Berge have signed an agreement to create Spain’s leading finished-vehicle logistics provider. Berge Gefco will offer more than 3 million m2 of space for storing up to 120,000 vehicles, along with 700 trucks, 100 rail wagons and 40,000sq m of workshop space. The new ...
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The reported decision to upgrade the 76-mile Trans-Pennine route between Leeds and Manchester at a cost of £3b without any provision for freight is deeply troubling for businesses in the North, says PD Ports, owner and operator of the ports of Tees and Hartlepool.
It says that after more than ...
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