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The World Trade Organisation’s Trade Facilitation Agreement (TFA) came into force on 22 February after it was ratified by two-thirds of its members. Rwanda, Oman, Chad and Jordan submitted their acceptance, bringing the total number of ratifications over the required two thirds threshold of 110.
The agreement aims to speed up movement, release and clearance of goods across borders, and, when fully implemented, could reduce costs of international transactions by an ...
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Freight on Rail Manager, Philippa Edmunds, has described a planned 21% cut in rail freight grants from the beginning of April, as likely to force freight back onto congested roads. She argued: "These cuts, which are not aligned with the Government's own rail freight strategy of September 2016, are counter-productive ...
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Saudia is to operate twice weekly 787 Dreamliner passenger and cargo flights between Manchester and Riyadh from June on Monday and Wednesday. It already operates five times a week from Manchester to Jeddah.
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Emirates SkyCargo has appointed current cargo manager for Northern England and Scotland, Ross Barnett, as UK cargo manager. Based in London, he will oversee cargo operations for 18 daily passenger flights and two Heathrow freighter services. Emirates says that December 2016 was the first month in which it exported more ...
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Maersk Line has applied for EU approval for its purchase of Hamburg Sud with an initial decision due by March 27- although the deadline can be extended for another 90 days. Main sticking points are seen as South American routes – for example, the combined carrier would have a 37% ...
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The Irish International Freight Association (IIFA) is to joined the Clecat pan-European forwarders' group, president Tom Thornton told a meeting in Dublin on 21 February. It would give the industry a voice in the EU following the UK's decision last June to exit the Union, he told delegates to a ...
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Antonov Airlines used machinery it designed itself to speed loading of its first charter consignment from its new UK headquarters at London Stansted Airport - a British-manufactured helicopter almost 4.4 metres highen route to south-east Asia on one of its seven AN-124-100 freighters.
It was loaded at the Diamond Hangar at ...
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UK ro ro freight appears to have staged a full recovery from recession, rising 3.5% in 2016, according to annual figures published today by industry body, Discover Ferries.
Some 4.57m freight vehicles were carried on ferries in 2016 with increases on three main sectors surveyed between the UK and Ireland or ...
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The British International Freight Association (BIFA) has approved the promotion of Robert Windsor and Spencer Stevenson to directors.
Windsor (bottom), who joined the BIFA secretariat in June 2009 will continue to lead the trade association’s representational work with government and many other organisations that BIFA seeks to influence on behalf of ...
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DFDS has taken delivery of the first of two new ro ro freight vessels from the Flensburger Schiffbau shipyard.
She and her sister ship, due to be handed over in September, are 210 metres long with capacity for 262 trailers with a load space of 4,076 metres and are set to ...
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