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Peel Ports' short-sea arm, BG Freight Line, is to launch services to the West Coast Scottish port of Greenock. Three 1,000teu ships will operate on a rotation - Rotterdam (Friday), Liverpool (Monday/Tuesday), Belfast (Wednesday/Thursday), Greenock (Friday), Liverpool (Saturday/Sunday) and Rotterdam (Tuesday). The carrier said that there was significant market demand, not only for the Rotterdam/Greenock leg but also for connections to and from Liverpool and Belfast.
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Davies Turner Air Cargo has extended its presence at East Midlands Airport by taking a 3,000sq ft unit at the Air Cargo Centre within the airport campus. Davies Turner chairman, Philip Stephenson says the company needs more space to cater for its customers' needs at the UK's second-busiest cargo airport, ...
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The Freight Transport Association's director of global and European policy Chris Welsh has been awarded an MBE in the Queen’s birthday honours list for services to shippers and the shipping industry. The award recognises his leading role in representing of UK freight shippers to the European Union and global organisations ...
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MSC is bucking the trend towards ever-larger container ships by reducing the average vessel size on its Asia-Europe Condor service from 9,500 to 6,500teu. The move follows extensive analysis of capacity on its services against current and anticipated demands.
The network changes will apply to Maersk Line, MSC's partner in ...
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UPS Capital, the financial, insurance and payment services arm of the US-based express giant, has acquired Parcel Pro, an independent logistics provider to the jewellery, wristwatch and collectibles industries. Parcel Pro provides online tracking and visibility, e-reporting, web access and shipping, including via smart phone applications and has locations in ...
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Fred Osborn is to succeed Carson McMullan as British International Freight Association (BIFA) national chairman, with Mark Bromley becoming vice chairman. Osborn has been the co-owner of X-Pand International Freight since 2000 and has been BIFA's vice chairman for the past two years and was previously chair of BIFA's air ...
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Local MP Ben Gummer has officially opened a new £2.2 million dry bulk warehouse at Associated British Ports Ipswich. The Orwell Bulk Terminal replaces the former ‘Number 3’ warehouse on the River Orwell at Cliff Quay and will provide nearly an acre of purpose built storage for bulk commodities such ...
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P&O Ferries is offering a service to Gothenburg following a link-up with Swedish Orient Line (SOL). Forwarders can now ship their freight from Tilbury and Teesport to Zeebrugge, connecting with the SOL Zeebrugge-Gothenburg service, which operates four days a week. .SOL operates into the Stora terminal in Zeebrugge and P&O ...
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The EU-US Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) suffered another setback in a US Congress vote on 12 June when a coalition of left-wing Democrats and right-wing Republicans voted to terminate the trade adjustment assistance (TAA) programme.
Dating from the 1970s, it provided supported workers made redundant as a result of ...
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A proposal to remove the current three-journey limit on cabotage operations could be included in the European Commission's new road transport package now expected to be unveiled in early 2016, say Brussels sources. The Commission says that the rule – under which transport operations are only supposed to carry out ...
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