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The Port of Tilbury’s Logistics Training Academy and Tilbury on the Thames Trust have taken delivery of a new ‘fully immersive’ training simulator as part of the ‘Attention to Logistics’ training programme.
The ‘Attention to Logistics’ training programme and bursary scheme, launched last year by the Trust, has been created to specifically focus on the forces veteran community, helping ex-service men and women and their families back into work through the ...
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P&O Ferries has signed a deal with Forth Ports to build a £150 million river berth at the Port of Tilbury which will treble its freight capacity to 600,000 units a year by 2020.
The new terminal will be built subject to planning permission. An application for a development consent order ...
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CMA CGM is to take a long lease in a build-to-suit, multi-temperature warehouse facility at DP World London Gateway Logistics Park in order to concentrate all its UK reefer activity at the port.
Shipping Group’s freight forwarding and logistics solutions subsidiary is taking a one hectare cold store facility within a ...
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Doncaster’s iPort Rail has handled the first train at the UK’s newest intermodal inland rail freight hub.
Located on a 30-acre site within the 337-acre iPort logistics hub, iPort Rail can accommodate the UK’s longest trains up to six times a day. It has storage capacity for 1,500teu and a reach ...
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Xpediator, owner of freight forwarder, Delamode, said its group revenues for the 2017 financial year would be up by about 59% to £116 million. The company completed the acquisition of EMT Logistics, Benfleet Forwarding and Regional Express during the past 12 months. Freight forwarding saw particularly strong demand from the ...
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One year on since its entry into force, the Trade Facilitation Agreement (TFA) had made significant strides, said World Trade Organisation (WTO) director-general Roberto Azevêdo. He said that the deal, which seeks to expedite the movement, release and clearance of goods across borders, had been 100% implemented by developed country ...
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DP World said on 23 February that the Government of Djibouti had “illegally seized control” of Doraleh Container Terminal which it had designed, built and operated since 2006 under a concession.
DP World described the Djibouti government’s move as the culmination of a campaign to force it to renegotiate the terms ...
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DHL Express opened its new regional hub at Brussels Airport on 22 February, quadrupling its capacity at the Belgian gateway to 42,000 shipments per hour, and making it the fifth largest hub in the global DHL network.
DHL says that its Brussels operation is now busier than ever, despite the move ...
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The European Commission has fined five car carrying shipping lines €395 million for taking part in cartels and breaking EU antitrust rules. It found that CSAV, "K" Line, MOL, NYK and WWL-EUKOR participated in a cartel for the intercontinental maritime transport of vehicles.
It was part of a wider action by ...
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Swiss project logistics specialist KOG Worldwide - combined with Rhenus Project Logistics in 2015 - has opened a branch in Chicago under the management of its subsidiary, KOG Transport. Having already established representative offices in New York and Houston, this is its third business site in the US. KOG manages ...
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