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One of the transatlantic loops of the G6 Consortium is to relocate from Felixstowe to London Gateway. Management of the new London port announced at the DP World-sponsored VIP dinner on 29 April that the PA2 service, which operates from the US West Coast would switch as part of a wide-ranging reorganisation that will see the G6 consortium – Hapag Lloyd, APL, MOL, OOCL, NYK and Hyundai - extend its ...
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Palletways has added new line haul services between London and Nijmegen, London and Paris, and Paris and Madrid as part of an upgrade of its London hub to an international terminal. The new services are expected to cut transits to Palletways’ European locations by 24 hours.
Managing director of Palletways Europe, ...
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Sheffield City Region launched its new Logistics Hub UK group on 29 April at the Multimodal show at the NEC. It is a partnership of private-sector companies and the public sector to promote the region’s capabilities in logistics, distribution and warehousing sector in Doncaster and the Sheffield region.
The initiave is ...
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Eurotunnel is to extend its Eurotunnel Incentive for Capacity Additions (ETICA) programme to further increase through rail freight traffic. It will be extended to five new categories of traffic - new car transport, food and drink transported in conventional full train loads, consumer goods, logistics flows, manufactured goods and permanent ...
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AV Dawson is investing £6m in a rail-served steel distribution centre at Middlesbrough to cater for growth in the North-east's automotive sector.
Dawson’s new automotive shed will be its biggest yet at nearly 300m long and 36m wide and will be capable of providing storage for up to 32,000 tonnes of ...
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Heavy haulier Van der Vlist recently delivered spare parts to the largest telescope in Europe, in Zelenchukskaya, southern Russia. The three German-made items were collected from St Petersburg port and moved 2,500 km south. Because of their size; up to 6.6m long and 4.3m wide, they required a police escort ...
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NYK Group Europe has had its full Authorised Economic Operator (AEO) status renewed by HMRC for a further three years. In 2009, NYK Group Europe became one of the first UK based companies to obtain full AEO status and the recent audit process is part of the regular re-evaluation that ...
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North Thanet MP Sir Roger Gale told a public meeting on 26 April that Manston Airport may have found a buyer, the BBC reports. He told the gathering in Margatethat he had had a letter from a significant potential investor, “who I am satisfied - and I may be naive ...
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The four largest Russian business associations have written to President Vladimir Putin calling for the TIR system to be reinstated across the whole country.
Leaders of the Russian Chamber of Commerce, the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs, Business Russia, and OPORA Russia (Union of Small and Medium-sized Enterprises of Russia) ...
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The ports of Antwerp, Mannheim, Rotterdam, Strasbourg and Zwitserland have signed a cooperation agreement to boost LNG (liquefied natural gas) uptake in Europe. The cooperation includes studies, promotion, knowledge transfer, regulations and bunker infrastructure.The agreement forms part of the LNG Masterplan for Rhine-Main-Danube corridor to introduce LNG as a fuel ...
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