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The currently disused Grade II listed Hydraulic Tower building, which once used to drive the lock gates and bridges in the Birkenhead Docks, is to be the centrepiece of a new project that aims to provide the next generation of innovators and entrepreneurs to support the Northern Powerhouse agenda.
The private and public sector consortium behind the initiative, including Peel Ports, Mersey Maritime and Liverpool John Moores University is expected to ...
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US-based XPO Logistics, recent purchaser of French-owned Norbert Dentressangle, is now buying fellow US transportation concern, Con-Way, including its Menlo Logistics forwarding and freight arm.
The latest deal will make XPO the second-largest less-than-truckload provider in North America.
Con-Way operates 582 locations and has 30,000 employees, with estimated revenues of $5.7 billion ...
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NYK has signed a joint-venture agreement with Ports Development Company in Saudi Arabia to establish a ro ro terminal operating company at King Abdullah port on the Red Sea coast. The KAP RORO Terminal is planned to go into full operation by the third quarter of 2016 and will be ...
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Marie Glanville has joined the Port of Tyne as chief financial officer. She was previously group financial controller of Immunodiagnostic Systems Holdings and has worked in senior finance roles at other North East-based listed companies, including Grainger, the Go-Ahead Group and the housing company Gentoo.
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Associated British Ports (ABP) was named the Rail Freight Group's business of the year at the Awards Dinner held at the Shendish Manor Hotel, Hertfordshire on 8 September.
ABP won the award for its work on the Immingham Renewables Fuel Terminal Project, part of a £130m investment to evolve an ...
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The UK arm of airfreight and express wholesaler AMI has launched a new on-line Quote&Book portal, modelled on AMI’s Express click2ship model, launched in 2010. AMI approved agent customers enter shipment details to obtain immediate quotes and prices can then be filtered using AMI’s consolidation or direct AWB service, as ...
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Heavylift and breakbulk shipping operator AAL has opened a new office in Seoul, South Korea. AAL has been servicing the Korean market since its inception 20 years ago and appointed an owners’ representative in 2005. The new office will add further commercial and technical capabilities.
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CEVA Logistics has appointed Clayton Noble as managing director of its Australia and New Zealand operations. He joins the logistics firm from Fuji Xerox Australia, where he was chief operations officer and he replaces Casey Fisher, who is returning to the US to become executive vice president business development of ...
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Truckers’ friend Sally Boazman is to host the British International Freight Association’s Freight Service Awards 2015 Ceremony in London next year. Better known to drivers the length and breadth of Britain as ‘Sally Traffic’, her BBC Radio 2 travel reports have helped keep the country moving since she became the ...
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The port of Liverpool celebrated the 300th birthday of a shipping innovation more important than even the ubiquitous box on 31 August – the opening of the world’s oldest enclosed commercial wet dock. When it opened in 1715, the ‘old dock’, as it is now known (though presumably it was ...
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