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ABP’s Port of King’s Lynn handled two deliveries for the Palm Paper Power Station in Kings Lynn. On 6 October general cargo vessel Figaro brought in a 103-tonne gas turbine followed, on 9 October, by the Frisian River, with an electricity generator destined for Palm Paper’s newspaper printing site.
Palm, which produces up to 500,000 tons of newsprint a year at its Kings Lynn site, will use the power station to ...
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Peel Ports is applying air traffic control technology to streamline operations at it seven Statutory Harbour Authorities – the first time such systems have been applied to a commercial port group in the UK, it says.
The UK’s second biggest port operator, is investing £2.7m across its network of in technologies ...
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Hapag-Lloyd has become the first ocean carrier in the UK to offer the reUse container management services offered through Avantida, a subsidiary of the INTTRA ocean shipping portal. The application allows the re-use of import containers for export shipments of the same shipping company. Hapag Lloyd said Avantida would allow ...
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Mairéad Ní Cheóinín has been appointed to Seafarers UK as the charity’s new Corporate Fundraising Manager where her focus will be on engaging with the commercial maritime sector.
Mairéad brings a wealth of business development, marketing experience and industry knowledge to the position from her previous roles, working with Steamship Mutual ...
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The Baku-Tbilisi-Kars rail line will be officially opened on 30 October, a route that could one day form part of a new connection between China and Europe.
Opening of the line between the Caspian Sea port city of Baku in Azerbaijan and Kars in eastern Turkey will create not only a ...
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International development organisation Transaid has appointed Sam Clark as its new Head of Programmes. He replaces Caroline Barber, 37 who was promoted to chief executive in August. He expects to spend about three months in the field every year across the five countries in which Transaid currently has projects – ...
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Victor Products has joined more than 100 commercial tenants already based at the Port of Tyne. The company, a leading manufacturer of electrical connectors and LED lighting for the underground mining industry and a subsidiary of Federal Signal Corporation, has relocated its North East manufacturing facility to Tyne Dock, South ...
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Government suggestions that extra inland customs clearance depots may need to be established to free up capacity in and around UK ports could create opportunities for the warehousing and logistics sector, United Kingdom Warehousing Association’s (UKWA) chief executive Peter Ward told parliamentarians.
Speaking at the Association’s Annual Parliamentary Lunch at the ...
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P&O Ferries says it has had the highest freight traffic on its Larne/Cairnryan route in any third quarter of the year since 2011. It carried 53,305 lorries and trailers on its ships in July, August and September, up 3.3% on the same quarter last year. P&O Ferries Sector Director on ...
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The ‘no deal’ scenario is not an option for the transport sector said the International Road Transport Union (IRU) in its response to the UK Government’s white paper on customs and trade. IRU said that the paper leaves many unanswered questions. Suggestions such as the pre-declaration of goods need further clarification ...
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