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United Arab Shipping Company’s (UASC) newest and biggest vessel, the 18,800teu Barzan, has made her maiden call at Felixstowe. She arrived from Port Kelang in Malaysia on UASC’s AEC1 service between Asia and North Europe which also calls at Qingdao, Shanghai, Ningbo, Yantian, Port Kelang, Rotterdam and Hamburg.
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The Freight Transport Association (FTA) says the independent Cole Commission on Exports report released on 24 June echoes its own findings that Heathrow must increase capacity to be competitive in air freight. The report says sufficient export capacity is “critical” if the UK is to win the race for jobs ...
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Operation stack on the M20 approaches to the Channel Tunnel and ferry ports has been lifted – but not before hundreds of migrants stormed trucks queuing at Calais. UK-bound traffic was caught up in congestion caused by a strike and blockade by workers, after it was revealed that there would ...
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The Port of London Authority has been turning old mooring ropes into giant cat toys. Wildlife Heritage Foundation (WHF) has been collecting pallets of rope and lifting strops last month and they are now being used at the Kent-based sanctuary’s ‘Enrichment’ enclosure as scratch posts, to keep lions' and leopards' ...
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The House of Representatives voted narrowly to pass the Trade Promotion Authority (TPA) bill on 18 June. It effectively reverses the setback suffered by the measure in Congress on 12 June when a coalition of left-wing Democrats and right-wing Republicans voted to terminate the trade adjustment assistance (TAA) programme.
House leaders ...
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Kerry Logistics Network Limited has secured a contract to support House of Fraser’s store and e-commerce expansion into China in 2016. It will operate more than 9,000sq m of warehousing for the UK-based retailer in Shanghai, providing import agency services, import customs brokerage, and domestic distribution and e-fulfillment. Value-added services ...
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CMA CGM is to reconfigure its FAL1 and FAL3 services between Europe and Asia. With the changes, the carrier will offer calls in both Southampton and Felixstowe, as well as an improved service from North Europe to Beirut and a North/West Africa-Asia link via its hub in Algeciras, Spain.
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The SAECS Europe-South Africa lines are to switch their southbound call from Port Elizabeth Container Terminal to the port of Nqura/Coega from 7 July due to draught limitations. The northbound call will remain at Port Elizabeth.
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UPS is to build a new healthcare distribution centre in Roermond, the Netherlands. The announcement comes just a month after the carrier opened a dedicated healthcare air freight forwarding facility at Schiphol Airport.
The new Roermond facility, which will be around 28,000sq m and provide 41,000 pallet places, is scheduled to ...
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DHL Global Forwarding is to add a third China/Europe rail service with a new twice-weekly service between Zhengzhou and Hamburg via Poland. The new 17-day service will offer a less-than-container load and full-container option. DHL now offers three regular multimodal rail services between China and Europe from Zhengzhou, Suzhou and ...
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