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Comment s by EU negotiator Michel Barnier in which he predicted that there would be full inspection of all loads from the UK entering Europe after Brexit should act as a wake-up call, said Freight Transport Association (FTA) deputy chief executive of the James Hookham.
Commenting ahead of a meeting between minister for Brexit David Davis and leading British businesses on 7 July to discuss the trading implications of Brexit, Mr ...
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Developer Four Ashes is holding a public consultation on its planned rail freight interchange in South Staffordshire. The strategic West Midlands Interchange is being proposed for a 297-hectare site at Four Ashes, near to Junction 12 of the M6 and adjacent to the West Coast Main Line. It runs until ...
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P&O FERRIES carried more freight across the English Channel in the first six months of 2017 than in any first half of the year in its modern history. The six ships on the Dover-Calais route transported 710,813 lorries between January and June, up 10.4% on the first half of 2016, ...
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Bullet Express’ Scott McCutcheon won the Young Employee of the Year title at the UK Warehousing Association Awards 2017. He joined the Glasgow-based firm from school at the age of 17 as a telesales executive but when Bullet moved to a new 200,000 sq ft site, he was given the ...
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Real estate firm JLL has been appointed to market a new multimodal centre at Hunterston Port and Resource Centre (PARC) on the west coast of Scotland. PARC comprisess the Hunterston Bulk Terminal, a functioning port facility currently handling coal and other resources; the Hunterston Marine Yard with one of the ...
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Drinks logistics specialist JF Hillebrand and Groupe InterRail have moved a test shipment of French wine by rail from Duisburg in Germany) to Yiwu (China), a distance of 11 400km, crossing six countries.
Data from the trial, unveiled the Vinexpo Bordeaux 2017 show, confirmed how exposed containers shipped by rail compared ...
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In an apparent rebuke to anti-globalisation politicians such as Donald Trump and pro-Brexit factions in the UK, EU and Japan said on 6 July that they were poised to sign an historic free trade agreement. The deal, endorsed by Japan’s prime minister Shinzo Abe and EU leaders should open up ...
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The British International Freight Association has welcomed the news that an electronic back up system that would prevent a catastrophe in the event of a failure by HMRC’s CHIEF computer.
BIFA director general, Robert Keen said: “Although the back-up system has been in existence for about a year, it is good ...
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Following the appointment in June of David Geer as managing director, Virgin Atlantic Cargo has made two additions to its sales team. Ryan Ellis (pictured, left) takes up the position of head of global accounts while Ray Wood (right) joins the airline as regional sales manager for the UK. Ryan ...
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Cargolux Airlines has added Quito to its all-cargo network with a four times a week flight originating in Luxembourg and and returning to Europe via Amsterdam. Cargolux’s direct flights from South and Central America to Amsterdam were introduced in 2016 to serve the perishable and flower markets.
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