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The US Federal Maritime Commission asked for additional information about the proposed P3 shipping alliance on 5 December. It said the move would delay introduction of the proposed agreement – should mit ultimately be approved because a new 45-day regulatory review period will begin.
It followed a request by the Global Shippers’ Forum (GSF), whose secretary general, Chris Welsh – commented: “GSF welcomes the vote by FMC Commissioners so that they ...
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The European Shippers' Council (ESC) said that the two major shipping alliances – the G6, which announced in early December that it will expand its cooperation to the transatlantic and Asia-North America West Coast and trade lanes and the planned P3 cooperation between Maersk, MSC and CMA CGM would have ...
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The Chancellor's Autumn statement, published on 5 December, cancelled September 2014's planned increase in fuel duty. It also doubled UK Export Finance's lending to exporters to £50 billion.
The fuel duty freeze was welcomed by Europa managing director, Andrew Baxter, who said: “At last, the Government has recognised the need for ...
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P&O Ferries is operating an amended sailing schedule for the Christmas and New Year period. As before, there are no sailings on Christmas Day and last sailings on 24 December will be from Dover at 14.25 and from Calais at 17.45. There will be a reduced service on 26 December ...
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FedEx team members at 21 UK locations have collected around 1,400 kilograms of food for foodbanks operated by the Trussell Trust since September. The food, more than enough to fill a FedEx courier van, provides a total of 2,670 meals for those living below the poverty line, all delivered by ...
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Norbert Dentressangle has renewed a major contract with Anglo-Italian helicopter company, AgustaWestland. The logistics firm works with the UK operation of AgustaWestland, based at Yeovil in Somerset to move critical parts with dedicated teams from its Specialist Services business on-site and at the Royal Naval Air Station (RNAS) Culdrose in ...
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PD Ports has secured a new ten year contract with one of its most important customers, tea and coffee specialists Taylors of Harrogate. It will include a £1.75m refurbishment of PD Ports’ 115,000sq ft warehousing facilities at Billingham, near Teesport. Work commenced on refurbishing the existing facilities at the end ...
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Angela Black, commercial manager of Tilbury’s London Container Terminal welcomed the captain of the OPDR Cadiz with the first shipment of Spanish potatoes this week. They arrived on the first vessel of OPDR’s weekly Bilbao service which has switched to LCT.
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Famous Pacific Shipping (FPS) Group says that it has launched the first ever direct ocean LCL service has been launched between northern Europe and Fiji. The forwarding and NVOCC system's new link uses weekly CMA CGM sailings from Rotterdam to Suva, slashing transit times from 55-60 to 36 days and ...
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Freight software specialist ASM says it has “saved Christmas” with a new module designed to help importers cope with Customs' new LVBI (Low Value Bulked Imports) procedures. These mainly affect items worth between £15 and £135, which covers many of the goods bought online, and which now have to be ...
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