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Stena Line has confirmed that the first of its new ro pax ferries currently under construction in China will enter service on its Holyhead-Dublin route in early 2020.
It will have capacity for 3,100 freight lane meters and offer four4 daily sailings with an estimated crossing time of approximately 3½ hours.
It follows last year’s announcement by parent company Stena of a contract for a new generation of vessels, Stena E-Flexer, with ...
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Europa has added a supplier invoice scanning function to its Leonardo in-house IT system. It avoids have to distributed and physically approve paper invoices. IT director Richard Litchfield (pictured) said that with an average of about 10,000 invoices, switching to LeoScanning saved over 500-man hours per month. It also allows ...
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HMRC’s 1980s-vintage Chief computer system has served the trade well in the quarter century since it was introduced in 1994, but now is the time to move on, BIFA policy and compliance advisor Pawel Jarza told a seminar on its replacement, CDS (Customs Declaration Service). The Union Customs Code (UCC), ...
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Emirates is to reinstate two weekly 777-300ER passenger and bellyhold cargo flights between Luanda and Dubai, bringing the service to five flights per week from 1 July. It will rise to a daily service starting from the winter schedule. Flights will offer up to 23 tonnes of cargo.
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Emirates SkyCargo has signed a memorandum of understanding with the logistics arm of the Alibaba Group, Cainiao to develop Dubai as one of its planned six global hubs. Cainiao and the airline will work closely to manage e-commerce shipments in the Middle East and other neighbouring regions through Dubai. Cainiao’s ...
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Peel Ports commercial director Stephen Carr is calling on the freight industry to look at the Irish Sea model of unaccompanied freight and to use ports across the country to mitigate the worst Dover delays post-Brexit.
He said: “We all know about the acute delays and problems that already exist at ...
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Kuehne + Nagel has leased warehouse and office space at Budapest Airport ahead of the construction of the dedicated Cargo City, a new freight centre, which will start this summer. It is part of the €160 million BUD: 2020 Development Programme to develop cargo business.
Budapest currently handles all-cargo flights operated ...
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UPS has expanded its LCL ocean service with an additional 130 direct sailings and including ports in Asia, US, Latin America, Africa, Europe, the Caribbean and the Middle East. The new options include an export service from Dublin to Antwerp, an import service from Dalian in China to Southampton in ...
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DFDS has formally completed its acquisition of Turkish shipping company UN Ro-Ro, says chief executive and president, Niels Smedegaard. UN Ro-Ro operates five freight ferry routes connecting Turkey with Trieste in Italy and Toulon in France, with 12 freight ferries and its own port terminals in Istanbul and Trieste.
DFDS is ...
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The Transported Asset Protection Association (TAPA) has published all three levels of its Parking Security Requirements (PSR) certification programme for industry review. It has also signed a memorandum of understanding with SNAP Account, the cashless payment system for the haulage industry.
TAPA has also reiterated its strongly-held belief that there are ...
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