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Northern Ireland continues to be disadvantaged by poor road access to Scottish ports, says the Freight Transport Association after ferry company Stena Line raised concerns over the issue.
FTA says that while road connections within Northern Ireland have kept pace with economic development- work on a major bottleneck, the York Street Interchange is due to start soon - the same cannot be said of key roads in Scotland, specifically the road ...
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The Freight Transport Association (FTA) has described increased fines for illegal truck parking in Kent as “poorly planned and disproportionate”. The association argues that the problem of trucks using laybys and other unsuitable locations will only be by adequate clean and secure parking facilities.
It understands that Ashford Borough Council has ...
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French-based forwarder Gefco Group has acquired Europe-Morocco transport specialist, GLT, subject to regulatory approval. Founded in 1998, GLT has major customers in the automotive and fashion and performs over 16,000 crossings per year with 75 trucks and 380 trailers between Algeciras and Tangiers. Its management is based in Oiartzun, near ...
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Following the announcement on 10 January of record volumes at ABP Southampton, ro ro handler SCH said on 11 January its cargo grew by over 25% in 2017.
With ro-ro import and export volumes breaking the 200,000 unit barrier in 2016, the stevedore and terminal management specialists saw growth climb to ...
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Port of Southampton owner and operator ABP predicts that 2018 looks set to be another record-breaking year.
Director Alastair Welch says that, following the success of 2017, when the largest vessels in the world came to Southampton and more than one million containers were handled by the port, 2018 will see ...
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Following the announcement in June last year that DHL was sponsoring Susie Goodall in the Golden Globe Race in mid-2019, the round-the-world sailor introduced her newly refurbished craft at the London Boat Show on 10 January.
DHL has provided logistics support throughout the refurbishment process, bringing items such as solar panels ...
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The global pharma industry loses over $35bn a year solely as a result of temperature excursions and 30% of scrapped pharmaceutical can be attributed to logistics issues alone, says industry collaboration specialist Alan Kennedy.
Speaking ahead of the roll-out of the Poseidon pharma ocean freight programme at the IQPC Temperature Controlled ...
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Frenk Snoeck has been appointed general manager of Broekman Project Services, taking over from Jos Masselink, who retired on 1 January. The division of the Netherlands-based logistics firm focuses on heavylift cargo as well as handling, assembly, storage, and other activities for complex and overweight cargo.
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Turkish-owned Ekol Logistics is to launch its own operations in Sweden under the Ekol Nordics banner during January 2018 - the 16th country where it has established its own operations.
It will offer international FTL, LTL and groupage transport, initially between the Nordic countries and Turkey, Middle East and other countries where Ekol has its own companies. The next stage ...
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Airfreight handler Worldwide Flight Services (WFS) has signed a 15-year lease on a new 346,000 sq ft cargo terminal, the first phase of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey’s Vision Plan to enhance ageing facilities at the US gateway. WFS is already one of the largest handlers ...
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