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AV Dawson’s Teesside North Sea Supply Base Terminal hosted the 33,628dwt bulk carrier Skala in December - the largest ever to cargo vessel in history ever to pass under Middlesbrough’s Transporter Bridge. Over the last three years the Teesside-based logistics specialist has dredged the river and developed its quayside. The largest ship previously to dock at the quay was around 12,500 tonnes.
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A measure of the desperation faced during Operation Stack last summer is reflected in the list of sites for emergency lorry parking considered by the Department for Transport.
According to the Kent Messenger, the list of possible sites has just been released to the media under the Freedom of Information Act. ...
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Rail operator DB Schenker Rail UK said that recent commitments by Freightliner to allow more competition for container business to and from Felixstowe and Southampton may be insufficient. It follows an announcement by The Office of Rail and Road (ORR) in December saying it had accepted commitments by Freightliner to ...
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The northern French port of Dunkirk's total container traffic grew by a modest 2% to reach 317,000teu in 2015 but the number of full contains jumped 17%, supervisory board president Francois Soulet de Brugiere told the annual press conference in Lille on 6 January. China Shipping's new service and a ...
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Yusen Logistics Leeds operations manager, Louise Gunby has begun a three month secondment to Transaid’s Professional Driver Training project in Zambia She is supporting the Industrial Training Centre (ITC) in Zambia in its work to reduce traffic fatalities in sub-Saharan Africa through professional HGV, PSV and forklift truck training.
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Kuehne + Nagel unveiled its Singapore Logistics Hub on 4 January. The 50,000sq m built-to-suit facility in the west of the island, the new facility will serve as a regional centre of excellence for high-tech, industrial, pharmaceutical and healthcare customers, offering supply chain optimisation and value-chain transformation solutions. More than ...
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The Road Haulage Association says it is dismayed at the news that a new migrant camp is to be built at Dunkirk ferry port, 30 miles from Calais. It would cause “yet more misery for the thousands of UK-bound hauliers who regularly use this alternative route to cross the Channel", ...
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Wallenius Wilhelmsen Logistics (WWL) was fined45 million renminbis (US$ 7 million) by the National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC), one of China’s competition compliance authorities. It follows an investigation into the car carrying industry launched in September 2012 which found that WWL and other carriers were guilty of anti-competitive behaviour from ...
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DP World London Gateway Port welcomed one of the world’s largest container ships on 2 January when UASC's Al Muraykh diverted from Felixstowe to the new port. The vessel, which was en route from Malaysia, has a nominal capacity of 18,800teu, was actually carrying 18,601teu – a world record.
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BIFA sees a tough year ahead in 2016 with many of the difficulties caused by the government and the European Union rather than the economy.
Director general Robert Keen says two of the biggest impacts on freight forwarding will be implementation of the Union Customs Code and the new SOLAS rules ...
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