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The Sagrada Familia church in Barcelona is nearing completion after 92 years – with a little help from a little Lancashire grit and Europa Road’s Manchester branch.
The Gothic and Art Nouveau building was designed by renowned architect Antoni Gaudi who, in fairness did spend 40 years building it before he died in 1926 - but it has remained unfinished since.
The stone originally used for the church’s bell towers is sandstone ...
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MMD Shipping Services in Portsmouth is to launch a regeneration project on its 22-acre city-centre site.
Improvements include removing warehouses and creating space for up to 1,200 additional container spaces and an additional 250 reefer points and doubling the terminal's current capacity, in response to changes in how goods and produce ...
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MSC has become the latest shipping line to register its global container fleet on BIC’s BoxTech Global Container Database. It makes available technical details of more than 10 million containers, 40% of the global fleet, to database users including shippers, forwarders, terminals and software solution providers. BIC secretary general Douglas ...
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Chapman Freeborn staff from around the world gathered to celebrate the charter company’s 45th birthday in the ancient city of Mdina, Malta. Founded in the UK in 1973, the Chapman Freeborn group originally to market Alaska International Air’s Hercules freighters, the company now has offices in North America, Europe, Africa, ...
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The Government has approved its so-called ‘backstop’ plan for trade with the EU after Brexit including an end date of 2021 – the latter apparently at the insistence of Brexit Secretary David Davis,.
Under the plan, the UK would continue to align its tariffs on goods with that of the EU, ...
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Palletways Iberia says it has recruited a record number of new members and seen significant growth in volumes during the 12 years since starting it activities in the region.
The network has three hubs across the Peninsula and 67 members with the recent addition new recruits in Barcelona, Madrid and Portugal. ...
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Kerry Logistics has acquired a majority stake in Milan-based logistics company Saga Italia.
As well as adding Saga’s specialised know-how in project logistics, heavy lift services and material management the acquisition also adds three new countries to Kerry Logistics' network - Congo, Uganda, and Egypt, as well as new offices in ...
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Peel Ports has hired 25 full time staff to work at its Port of Liverpool. Ten started work in May, with more due to follow in June and July.
They will work at both the port’s new Liverpool2 container terminal as well as at Royal Seaforth Container Terminal, training initially as port ...
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Emirates SkyCargo has added two new UK destinations to its network from Dubai – Edinburgh and London Stansted , bringing its total destinations in the country to eight.
The two new daily 777-300ER-operated passenger servicess, with around 20 tonnes cargo capacity per flight, add around 500 tonnes to the carrier’s 2,000 ...
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Freight transport insurer TT Club has published a report summarising the thoughts of industry leaders on what the future holds for the container industry over the next 25 years to mark its 50th anniversary.
Published in conjunction with global management consulting firm McKinsey, ‘Brave new world? – Container transport in 2043’, ...
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