Chris
Chair of the House of Commons Transport Select Committee, Louise Ellman MP visited the Port of Liverpool on 7 August) to inspect progress at the £100m biomass terminal project. She met with senior representatives from Peel Ports and Drax Group on a tour of the new biomass terminal which will soon support the EU’s largest decarbonisation project at Drax Power Station.
The first phase of the new terminal will open in ...
[+]
Highways England has published the route for freight traffic diverted to the temporary holding area at Manston Airport.
Under Operation Stack, all freight will first be stacked between junctions 8, Maidstone Services, and 9, Ashford, of the coastbound M20 and that section of the motorway will be closed to non-freight traffic. ...
[+]
Scottish Government officials, including Transport Scotland and Fisheries and Food Secretary Richard Lochhead have held talks with industry stakeholders on long-term potential alternative routes to market following recent disruption and delays at the Channel Tunnel and Port of Dover.
Richard Lochhead said: “A fast-track for fresh produce and other key consignments ...
[+]
Qatar Airways is to extend of its existing embargo on transporting hunting trophies to encompass all species identified by the CITES Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species. The airline’s existing ban on carrying CITES I hunting trophies has been extended to include all species included in the CITES I, ...
[+]
Emirates flights to London will become an all-A380 operation from 1 January 2016 when it replaces the Boeing 777-300ER with the superjumbo. The five daily flights to Heathrow are already operated by the A380. While good news for passengers, the move could reduce cargo capacity as the A380's payload is ...
[+]
Two CMA CGM ships, the Laperouse and the Titan were due to head a procession of vessels to officially open the New Suez Canal inauguration today (Thursday 6 August). Some 5,000 VIP guests attended the event to mark the completion of work to enlarge the canal.CMA CGM is a major ...
[+]
Single port window specialist SOGET has launch foreign trade preclearance operations in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). It follows signing of a contract in October and setting up of a public-private partnership.
[+]
Industrial property developer Segro has acquired a 20-acre site in Purfleet, east of London, from Savills. There is space for 400,000sq ft of development and units can be built on a speculative or pre-let basis. The land is next to the A13 corridor and Segro is expecting interest from logistics ...
[+]
Unsworth Global Logistics (UGL) has wonthe runner-up prize in the Federation of Small Businesses award for Training and Development in London. The certificate was presented to Directors Charles and Richard Hogg of UGL by sponsors SOS Digital Communications in recognition of the work the company has done in developing and ...
[+]
The world's airlines have been falling over themselves in announcing bans on the transport of hunting trophies in the wake of the Cecil the Lion incident in Zimbabwe. Minnesota dentist Walter Palmer sparked a worldwide furore when he shot Cecil after the popular beast was allegedly lured out of a ...
[+]
« Back
More »
