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The House of Commons Transport Committee says more should be done to demonstrate that proposal for a lorry park to alleviate the effects of disruption at the port of Dover will deliver, in its Operation Stack report. However, the Government is right to seek a solution to the problem, it says.
It added that the decision to proceed at pace with the proposal for a lorry park “had left behind some of ...
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French rail SNCF's VIIA logistics arm announced a new service from Italy to the UK during Multimodal. Following the announcement in March this year of a route from the Spanish-French border to Dover via Calais, a further new service will transport unaccompanied trailers by rail between Orbassano (near Torino) and ...
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Freight services company Motis has completed phase 1 of a £1m investment in Dover with the opening of a new freight clearance and truckstop in the port. The facility includes a full range of driver amenities, truckwash and upgraded cargo handling facilities including ambient, frozen and chilled storage and transhipment ...
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The Port of Dover has officially opened its freight holding facility, capable of accommodating 220 HGVs and removing 4km of queuing traffic from Kent’s highways. In a ceremony held to coincide with the launch Government's Exporting is GREAT campaign on 20 April, chief executive said the port had invested millions ...
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The Secretary of State for Transport, Patrick McLoughlin visited the Port of Dover on 16 February to see progress being made in improving the resilience of the key gateway.
The port's chief executive, Tim Waggott, said: “Dover is handling record volumes of freight vehicle traffic and we have responded by building ...
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A business partnership which brings around a quarter of Britain’s bananas into the country is celebrating its tenth anniversary.
The Port of Dover, Seatrade Reefer Chartering and terminal operator George Hammond celebrated a decade of running twice weekly shipping services through a port more widely recognised as the busiest ro ro ...
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Highways England has chosen a tunnel between Tilbury and Gravesend – Option 'C' - as its preferred option for a new Lower Thames Crossing. It would provide a link between many of the south-east's major ports and the rest of the country, including Dover and the Channel Tunnel and Tilbury/London ...
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The Freight Transport Association has come out in favour of Stanford West as the best option for a new overflow lorry area for Dover. Highways England put two proposed sites out for public consultation in December to find a permanent solution to Operation Stack to prevent the chaos seen on ...
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The Port of Dover is expecting a record year, despite the summer’s disruption from industrial action and migration problems in France.
Within five days of Operation Stack being lifted in early August, the port was handling record volumes. Since the end of the industrial action, Dover handled up to 9,300 freight ...
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The European Commission has announced a €143million (£104million) cash injection to develop ferry services on both sides of the Channel as part of the BRIDGE (Building the Resilience of International and Dependent Gateways in Europe) project, co-funded by the European Union under the Motorways of the Sea priority.
In the ...
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