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GB Railfreight (GBRf) managing director John Smith has been appointed chief executive of parent company, Swedish-based Hector Rail Group. Hector Rail, Sweden’s largest private freight operator, completed acquisition of GBRf in November 2016.
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PD Ports has been awarded a four-year contract to operate import logistics and quality inspection for oil specialists Kerfoot at the port of Goole. PD Ports, best known s owner and operator of Teesport’s Humber-based shipping and inspection team will provide the stevedoring and tank management oils to be used ...
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Hong Kong forwarder the U-Freight Group (UFL) has welcomed the Luxor Resolution on cross-border e-commerce, which was adopted by the World Customs Organisation on 7 December.
The Resolution, addresses critical aspects of the e-commerce supply chain such as advance electronic data, facilitation and simplification safety and security and revenue collection and ...
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The Freight Transport Association (FTA) has acquired air cargo security and dangerous goods training company T Team. The company, which trades as TrainingTeam provides industry approved specialist training courses at venues across the country and online, which focus on air cargo security and the movement of dangerous goods by air, ...
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The UK government has held informal talks on joining the Trans Pacific Partnership, according to a report in the Financial Times. The 11-member partnership currently consists of Australia, Brunei, Canada, Chile, Japan, Malaysia, Mexico, New Zealand, Peru, Singapore and Vietnam, after the Trump administration left the grouping in 2017.
Although all ...
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The Ocean Alliance -CMA CGM, COSCO, Evergreen and OOCL – has announced details of its new services from April 2018. The second phase of the network will see the roll out more than 40 services deploying approximately 340 containerships with a capacity of about 3.6 million teu.
Routes covering UK ports ...
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Dr Marco Schröter was appointed chairman of the supervisory board for the Rhenus Group on 14 December. He takes over from Reinhard Lohmann, who has reached the age limit for board membership.
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Captain Phil Buckley (right) takes over as harbour master at the port of Southampton when Captain Martin Phipps retires.
He is now responsible for the safe navigation of all vessels on one of the busiest waterways in the world and across the wider Solent – last year 160,000 vessel movements, including ...
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Tilbury could be as big a freight gateway to Europe as Dover in a few years’ time, according to P&O Ferries.
The cross-channel operator reports that it carried more freight between Zeebrugge and Tilbury in 2017 than in any other year in the decade long history of the route.
The service carried ...
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Irish Continental has ordered a second large cruise ferry for its Dublin-Holyhead route from Flensburger Schiffbau-Gesselschaft in Germany.
The €165.2 million vessel, scheduled for delivery before mid-2020, will be the largest cruise ferry in the world in terms of vehicle capacity, says the company, with space for up to 330 freight ...
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