Chris Lewis
Maritime Transport has launched a rail service between Tilbury2 ro ro terminal near London and Manchester’s Trafford Park Euroterminal, in partnership with P&O Ferries, which operates freight only ferries to and from Zeebrugge.
The DB Cargo-operated train runs five days per week from Monday to Friday and can carry 45' pallet-wide, 40', and 20' deep-sea containers - a total of 80 TEU in each direction.
Maritime says the service will remove over ...
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Hong Kong Air Cargo Terminals Limited (Hactl) has become the first cargo terminal and logistics corporation to have its training courses received accreditation under the Hong Kong Qualifications Framework (HKQF). The courses covered are Hactl’s Certificate in Special and Temperature Controlled Cargo Handling For Supervisors (QF Level 3); its Certificate ...
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UPS has launched a five times a week Boeing 747-8 freighter flight to Kempegowda International Airport in Bengaluru, India. It is the carrier’s second dedicated airport gateway facility in India after opening Delhi in 2020. The Bengaluru facility will provide in-house customs clearance and serve southern India, giving customers an ...
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Second-hand container prices are plummeting due to oversupply, said box trading and leasing firm Container xChange in its latest analysis. It said that congestion at ports in early 2020 led to the panic ordering of record numbers of new boxes and, with markets reopening and demand softening, there is now ...
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CMA CGM’s Containerships arm launched a weekly Scottish Express (SCX) service between Grangemouth, Teesport and Rotterdam with the arrival of the 800TEU Skylight in Scotland on 19 July.
The new SCX service, which calls in Grangemouth on Thursday, will mainly support exports from Leven and Shieldhall to worldwide destinations via continental ...
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Peel Ports Group chief executive, Claudio Veritiero has urged the government to partner with port and maritime companies to help meet its objectives on levelling-up, net zero and economic growth.
Claudio Veritiero, who took over at Peel Ports in April, says that the sector is ideally placed to provide benefits and ...
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DP World’s Imperial Logistics arm has marked 50 years of operations at the port of Fürth in Germany. The port is a handling centre for construction materials and agricultural goods for the region.
The inland port handled its first goods via the Main-Danube canal on 15 July 1972.
Today, Fürth is mainly ...
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EV Cargo has made two appointments following its acquisition of Netherlands-headquartered Fast Forward Freight in March. The latter’s former chief executive Marc Terpstra has been appointed as vice president Europe at EV Cargo while former Fast Forward Freight chief financial officer Robert Van Breugel has taken on the role of ...
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Runcorn-headquartered forwarder Maltacourt has opened a new office in Birmingham. It will be led by Kelly Taylor who joins the Maltacourt board of directors.
It follows opening of a new office in Felixstowe in June and Manchester at the beginning of the year.
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Austrian-based forwarder Cargo-partner has made an offer to acquire one third of its partner Sim Cargo, a provider of smart groupage solutions. Cargo-partner has been part of the groupage network and a system partner of Sim Cargo for many years now, especially for distribution in Central and Eastern Europe. Should ...
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