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A Knowledge Transfer Partnership between the University of Kent and the Dover Harbour Board has achieved the highest rating from Innovate UK, the UK's technology strategy agency, after it helped reduce traffic congestion, boost efficiency and cut costs.
The project started in 2016 when the port appointed Kent Business School graduate Dr Cliff Preston, to work within the organisation to help it use data modelling and simulation software to operate more effectively.
Notably the ...
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The 14,000-ton Baltic Klipper was the first Geest Line ship to discharge in Dover, on 24 January, following the relocation from Portsmouth. Geest Line initially will call at Dover’s eastern docks general cargo terminal but will move to new handling facilities at the western docks once they are completed in ...
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The Freight Transport Association has welcomed the plans for an additional £44.5 million to be spent on strengthening security at Calais and other French ports, announced by the UK and Frwench governments yesterday (18 January).
The money will be used for fencing, CCTV and infrared detection technology in Calais and other ...
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The Freight Transport Association (FTA) has described increased fines for illegal truck parking in Kent as “poorly planned and disproportionate”. The association argues that the problem of trucks using laybys and other unsuitable locations will only be by adequate clean and secure parking facilities.
It understands that Ashford Borough Council has ...
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Freight volumes through the Port of Dover hit a record for the fifth consecutive year in 2017. The port handled 2,601,162 lorries, up by almost 10,000 on the previous record and bringing the total increase over the last five years to just under 650,000 units or 33% per cent. Chief ...
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Caribbean specialist operator Geest Line is to move its south of England call from Portsmouth to Dover following an increase in the size of its ships and to accommodate the need for weekend discharge of cargoes.
Geest has replaced its four chartered vessels with five larger and newer ships, increasing capacity ...
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Tilbury could be as big a freight gateway to Europe as Dover in a few years’ time, according to P&O Ferries.
The cross-channel operator reports that it carried more freight between Zeebrugge and Tilbury in 2017 than in any other year in the decade long history of the route.
The service carried ...
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Labour peer Lord Campbell-Savours warned that the UK could face a shortage of customs officers after Brexit, quoting FBJ, in a Lords debate on the future of UK trade and customs policy on 5 December.
Describing Freight Business Journal as “an excellent publication if you want to keep abreast of Brexit ...
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Port of Dover chief executive Tim Waggott has called for the UK to become a member of the Common Transit Convention to ensure that freight continues to move through the UK’s ferry ports after Brexit. In a letter to the Exiting the European Union Committee – hosted by the port ...
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The Government has dropped a controversial plan for a lorry ‘stacking’ area off the M20 near Dover, after companies affected by the scheme requested a judicial review, which was scheduled to be held on 6-7 December. Any future plans for such areas would be subject to a full environmental assessment, ...
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