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The African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) was formally signed on 21 March by the African Union at its Assembly in Kigali. The move was welcomed by EU officials who described it as a concrete commitment to trade liberalisation.
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Eurotunnel has awarded GE Power’s Grid Solutions a contract to improve the power supply in the Channel Tunnel. The tunnel operator said it would increase the power and stability of its network at peak demand, when eight trains are running simultaneously.
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The European Union approved its guidelines on trade and other issues for its negotiations with the UK about post-Brexit relations, widely regarded as a key step in the process, the BBC reports.
The guidelines give chief negotiator Michel Barnier the mandate to talk directly to the UK. The plan is to ...
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The Transport Select Committee’s report on the Airports National Policy Statement published on 23 March, which endorsed building a third runway at Heathrow Airport, met with general approval from business and the airfreight industry.
Chris Richards, Head of Business Environment at manufacturers’ organisation EEF, said the report was “a good sign ...
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Transmec branch manager Paul Priestley is cycling 140 miles between his depot in Bradford and the groupage operator’s branch at Redditch in aid of Children with Cancer in April.
Then, after covering the distance in a single day, he’ll be relaxing with a mere 40-mile round trip between Redditch and the ...
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The CORE four-year €50 million European research project to create trusted and transparent trade lanes will be brought formally to a close at an event at the Stanhope hotel in Brussels on 11 April. A final event will bring together shippers, freight forwarders, transport providers, and authorities to demonstrate the ...
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The Port of Rotterdam Authority has started construction of a £175m Container Exchange Route that will link the deepsea container terminals, empty depots, rail terminals and distribution companies at Maasvlakte. It aims to reduce transfer and improve hinterland connections. Trains, inland vessels and feeder vessels will no longer need to ...
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Kuehne + Nagel has extended its European overland cross dock platform in Contern, Luxembourg and has integrated telematics data from key transport partners, both moves that the forwarder says will strengthen its position in the pharma solutions market.
Uwe Hött, senior vice president overland Europe at Kuehne + Nagel, said the ...
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The recovery in the airfreight market took Lufthansa Cargo by surprise, along with the rest of the industry, said chief executive Peter Gerber. Presenting the German carrier’s annual results at a press conference on 22 March, he said that a loss of €50 million in 2016 had been turned around ...
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Finnlines will extend its Spain-Zeebrugge service to Scotland in March, adding round-trip sailings between Bilbao and Rosyth in addition to its existing services between Bilbao and Hull, Teesport, Tilbury and Gothenburg.
The service is operated with modern ro ro vessels suitable for all kinds of commodities: trailers, including containers, mobile loads ...
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