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Maersk Line has switched the UK call of its Samba South America service from Tilbury to DP World London Gateway Port. The first call on the service will be made by the Maersk Lanco on 21 March.
The service includes calls at Santos, Paranagua, Itajal, Buenos Aires, Montevideo, Rio Grande, Santos, Pecem, Algeciras, Rotterdam and London Gateway before heading back to the Continent and South America. A factor in the move ...
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The Freight Transport Association (FTA) is encouraging all freight operators to join the Civil Penalty Accreditation Scheme to help protect against fines should illegal migrants be found on-board their trucks.
Introduced by Border Force in 2015, the Scheme reduces haulage companies’ risk of receiving fines by making sure they have ...
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The Freight Transport Association has come out in favour of Stanford West as the best option for a new overflow lorry area for Dover. Highways England put two proposed sites out for public consultation in December to find a permanent solution to Operation Stack to prevent the chaos seen on ...
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US investor RiverOak has made a pre-application to the UK Planning Inspectorate for plans to reopen Manston airport in Kent as a mainly freight gateway. The developers are expected to submit a full application in late 2016.
The plans envisage that the currently closed airport would reopen as a mainly freight ...
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Maersk Line has introduced a new weekly service from Colombia, South America to Portsmouth in the UK, primarily to carry containerised refrigerated bananas. The Hampshire port welcomed the Maersk Antwerp Trader – the first vessel on the new service and the largest cargo ship ever to call – on 20 ...
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Palletforce is investing £20 million to turn its existing base at Burton on Trent, Staffordshire into a ‘superhub’, the first major project by the pallet network’s new owners EmergeVest. When complete, the 620,000sq ft development will be the biggest of its kind in Europe, capable of processing over 30,000 pallets ...
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UK airfreight collection and delivery company Circle Express has ended a long period operating under a company voluntary agreement with its sale to TVS logistics group, Rico. The company has taken a majority shareholding in Slough-based Circle, which appointed turnaround specialists KSA Group to allow it to continue trading while ...
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The British International Freight Association (BIFA) revealed the winners of its Freight Service Awards competition 2015 at a ceremony in London on 21 January.
The winners of the ten General, Modal and Specialist categories in the awards were: Greenshields Cowie & Co; Dynamic International Freight Services; 512 (Sheffield); The Woodland ...
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DP World has set up a joint venture company with the Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF)to develop ports, transportation and logistics infrastructure. DP World Russia will target marine, dry ports and logistics infrastructure in different parts of the country and is expected to invest up to US $2 billion in ...
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Danish forwarder DSV has completed its acquisition of US-owned UTi, first announced in October last year. As previously announced, the deal was worth around US$1.35 billion.
California-headquartered UTi is described by DSV as “a global, asset-light supply chain services and logistics company” with estimated annual revenue of $3.5 billion, offering air, ...
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