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Dover MP Charlie Elphicke, Dover Harbour Board chairman, George Jenkins and chief executive, Tim Waggott started the demolition of the old Seacat berth at the former hoverport - the first physical step in the Dover Western Docks Revival project on 22 August.
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Dover handled a record number of freight vehicle departures on 8 July, when Channel Tunnel services were disrupted by an overhead power line collapse. A total of 5,337 freight vehicles departed for Calais and Dunkirk from Europe’s busiest ferry port, beating the previous record of 5,322 set in 2008. It ...
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Dover has submitted a Harbour Revision Order to Government for its port development and regeneration plan. Harbour Board chief executive Tim Waggott said he hoped that it would be quickly granted “so that the momentum to transform the port and town will allow us all to experience the great future ...
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Shipping and Ports Minister Stephen Hammond has set out a plan for the future of the Port of Dover, including new fund-raising powers. He said that discussions facilitated by the minister over how the port should best be run have resulted in a major step forward, and set out a ...
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The Port of Calais has opened following a 24-hour strike. However, drivers are warned to expect congestion on the approaches to Dover. Bot the M20 and the M2/A2 are available to freight traffic.
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Independent economic consultancy Oxera has calculated the 2.2 million freight vehicles a year using the Port carry goods worth an estimated £89 billion, in a new economic impact survey. Tim Waggott, Chief Executive, Port of Dover, said it showed the real, and too often unseen, value of the port and ...
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Shipping Minister Stephen Hammond will visit Dover on 9 April to make a major announcement on the 'People's Port' plan to sell the Trust Port to a consortium of local interests, reports the Dover Express website. The website quotes an 'industry insider' who says that the announcement is likely to ...
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Dover Harbour Board said it was ready to start redevelopment of the Western Docks area of Europe's busiest ferry port, having gained Government approval for the scheme in 2012. It added that it wished “to seize the opportunity to lock in the many benefits that this could bring just as ...
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Dover's new Port Users Group (PUG) has elected James Ryeland, managing director of terminal operator George Hammond as its first chairman and Robert Hardy, general manager of MOTIS Freight Services Agency as vice-chairman. The PUG represents ferry operators, cruise lines, the cargo terminal operator, sister ports, tenants, other local port ...
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The Port of Dover has posted its best year-end traffic figures for freight since 2009, after rising 13% in 2013. The port handled over 2.2 million freight vehicles, along with almost 12.8m passengers, itself an increase of 7%.
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