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Chief executive of Irish Sea freight ferry operator Seatruck, Alistair Eagles says the opening of the new £124.5m Bay Gateway relief road in Lancaster, is the biggest commercial opportunity for the Port of Heysham in its history.
The opening, on 31 October would unleash the port’s potential to win more Irish Sea traffic, he predicted.
“A large percentage of Cairnryan’s tonnage drives past Heysham on the M6 as it originates in the ...
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UK-based Air Charter Service said in late October that it had arranged several flights to Haiti, following Hurricane Matthew earlier this month. They were operated by aircraft including AN-12s and Boeing 767s, from Europe and the US, carrying material including medicine, mosquito nets tarpaulins, jerry cans and buckets.
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Port of Liverpool owner Peel Ports has signed a memorandum of understanding with the Panama Canal Authority (ACP) to promote trade routes between Liverpool and the west coast of South America ahead of the opening of its Liverpool2 container terminal in early November.
The agreement was signed on 24 October by ...
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The Port of Cork has put a new €750,000 automated gate operating system into operation at its Tivoli Container - the first of its kind in Ireland.
Cork has also implemented an integrated IT access management system that will improve transactions for hauliers at the terminal gate. The new system replaces ...
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As widely expected, the government came down in favour of a third runway for London Heathrow Airport as its preferred route to airport expansion in south-east England on 25 October. The scheme will now be submitted as a draft ‘National policy statement’ for consultation.
However, the scheme still faces a number ...
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More than 30 tons of critical aid is now on the ground in hurricane-stricken Haiti thanks to two FedEx charter flights.
Direct Relief filled a charter flight that took off from the Memphis World Hub and arrived in Port-au-Prince on 12 October 12 with supplies including medicines and medical equipment, hygiene ...
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CMA CGM short sea subsidiary OPDR is offering a new service between the UK and Norway. The weekly PENN service links Immingham, Teesport and Grangemouth with Oslo, Moss and Brevik, via Rotterdam. Two ice-strengthened 700teu ships operate the service, with capacity for 45ft boxes and reefers.
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Freight ro ro operator CLdN is to launch a rail connection from Lyon, France to its Brittanniadok terminal in Zeebrugge from the end of October. Luxembourg's CFL Multimodal will initially operate three return services weekly (southbound Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday mornings, northbound on Wednesday and Friday mornings and Saturday afternoons ...
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IAG Cargo will launch a new four times a week route from London to New Orleans on 26 March March next year, making the only carrier to fly direct from Heathrow to the Louisiana gateway. The new service will be operated by a BA 787-8 aircraft offering bellyhold capacity up ...
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DHL Freight has set up ‘competence centres’ in Frankfurt and Istanbul to streamline traffic from Europe to Iran.Following the reduction in economic sanctions logistics demand is increasing and DHL is now offering pan-It can also move dangerous goods and temperature controlled shipments as well as customs clearance and GPS tracking ...
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