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Etihad Airways is to launch daily flights between Abu Dhabi and Edinburgh in mid-June. Edinburgh is Etihad Airways’ first Scottish destination, and its third point in the UK, alongside a triple-daily operation to London Heathrow and double-daily flights to Manchester.
The Edinburgh service is operated by an Airbus A330-200 aircraft, offering a 168-tonne cargo capacity per week in both directions, with oil and gas equipment expected to be transported ...
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Six Peel Ports Group will find their sea legs this month as they embark on this year’s Apprentice Ship Cup challenge, spending six days and seven nights learning to sail the tall ship Pelican of London from Dublin on 14 June to Greenock via Whitehaven.
Apprentices from all over the UK ...
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The Port of Dover is adding its support to haulage customers and their trade bodies in calling for more action to tackle the migrant crisis in Calais. Chief executive Tim Waggott, says: “The 2.5 million freight vehicles that carry this trade through the French ports to and from Dover are ...
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A legal row has broken out between Channel Tunnel operator Eurotunnel and the ports of Calais and Boulogne, along with local government bodies. It follows Eurotunnel's filing on 10 April of an appeal at the Lille Administrative Court that sought to cancel public funding for the Calais Port 2015 project. ...
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Meridian Port Services, a joint venture between APM Terminals, Bolloré Africa Logistics, and the Ghana Ports and Harbour Authority, is to invest $1.5 billion in a new deep-water 3.5 million TEU port and logistics hub in Tema. It will include a new greenfield port outside the present facility and a ...
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Europa Worldwide Group has appointed Richard Cronk as director of Europa Warehouse. A member of the Europa team for 36 years, in his previous role as operations director he played a key part in building the European and domestic network as well as developing Europa’s logistics business in Northampton and ...
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A major investment programme to increase container storage capacity is under way at the Port of Grangemouth, Scotland’s largest container port.
The port’s owner, Forth Ports, is upgrading 6,325sq m of surface area, which will boost terminal capacity to 12,000teu – a 50% increase since 2005 – and improve landside ...
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Customs officials from the EU and Japan took an important step towards the creation of an IT system for mutual recognition of Authorised Economic Operators (AEOs) at a Joint Customs Cooperation Committee on 10 June. The EU and Japan have mutually recognised their respective 'trusted trader' programmes in respect of ...
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Forwarder and consolidator network Famous Pacific Shipping Group (FPS) has appointed Sam Aparo as the new chairman of its advisory board. He replaces FPS Group founder Benny Ling, who has taken early retirement on health grounds.
Aparo (pictured, below) said: “I am delighted to take on this important role, although I ...
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The Federal Customs Service of Russia says it has resolved the situation with TIR Carnets”and restored its cooperation with the TIR guaranteeing association ASMAP. It has also published a list of border crossing points open to TIR.
Russia's TIR system had come close to collapse due to a dispute over payment ...
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