Chris Lewis
The Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents (RoSPA) has awarded PD Ports Gold status for the third consecutive year for its commitment to health and safety excellence.
The port operator, which owns and operates Teesport, the sixth largest port in the UK, as well as 11 other ports and logistics centres nationwide, says it has instilled health and safety as its primary core value, encouraging each of its people to ...
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Iraq has become the 78th country to accede to the United Nations TIR Convention. The TIR transit and guarantee system has been adopted by Oman, the UAE, Saudi Arabia, and, most recently, Qatar. The International Road Transport Union said it is already significantly reducing border-crossing times and boosting trade in ...
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Road and rail operator Maritime Transport has promoted Alex Williams (pictured, top) and Tom Williams (second from top) to deputy chief executive officers under a longer-term succession plan. They will report directly to chief executive officer, Simon Smart.
Meanwhile, John Bailey (third) will head up a newly-created Intermodal division as managing ...
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DP World Southampton broke its all-time move count record, handling over 9,000 containers on the Ocean Network Express vessel ONE Trust when it arrived from Pusan last week. Some 9,315 containers were exchanged, including 5,824 discharges, 3,473 loads and 18 re-stows, taking 86 hours to complete. This call broke by ...
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Hamburger Hafen und Logistik AG (HHLA)’s Metrans rail subsidiary is boosting services to south-eastern Europe following its acquisition in March of a 51% stake in Croatian Adria Rail. Metrans is now operating services to Adria Rail’s terminal at Indija, near the Serbian capital Belgrade, from where it will offer various ...
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Associated British Ports (ABP) regional director for Wales and short sea ports Andrew Harston will take up a new role as strategic adviser from 1 July. Most recently he spearheaded ABP’s role in the successful bid for the Celtic Freeport. He has also chaired the East of England Offshore Wind ...
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Hapag-Lloyd has introduced a new service between Morocco and West Africa. WA1 will operate fortnightly between Tanger Med, Nouakchott, Freetown, Conakry, Monrovia, and back to Tanger from 15 May. Connections are available in Tanger with Hapag-Lloyd's global network. On 7 May, the carrier will also introduce a new rotation and ...
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Midlands-based UK and international haulier PGS Global Logistics has invested £10 million in what it says is the greenest storage and distribution hub in central England. The purpose-built, carbon neutral warehouse in West Bromwich will double its pallet storage capabilities from 15,000 to 30,000 with Very Narrow Aisle (VNA) pallet ...
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A team of specially trained XPO drivers and a special truck are piloting the Tate and MuMo museums’ Art Explora Mobile local visitors in locations across Liverpool, St Helens, Knowsley, Sefton, Wirral and Halton during April.
The mobile exhibition displays artworks from Constable to Henry Moore, along with many contemporary artists.
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A group of freight industry bodies including insurers the TT Club, the Cargo Incident Notification System Network (CINS) and cargo handling organisation ICHCA have produced a series of guidelines for safe transport of Lithium-ion batteries in containers. Lithium-ion Batteries in Containers Guidelines (101.A) is intended as the first of a ...
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