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Ro-ro traffic through Dunkerque fell by 7% in tonnage terms to 13.7mt and by 15% in numbers of units, said the port in its latest annual figures published on 13 January. It attributed the fall to Brexit factors including stockpiling ahead of the 1 January 2021 deadline, which inflated 2020 figures.
However, in its first year of operation, the new DFDS Dunkerque/Rosslare freight ro ro service moved 53,000 accompanied and unaccompanied ...
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CMA-CGM’s short sea Containerships arm has introduced a feeder service between Dunkerque and Bristol’s Royal Portbury Dock with connections to and from the Far East. Containerships already operates between Bilbao and Bristol.
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Dunkerque Port interim chairman Daniel Deschodt has officially handed over the keys of the new Single Border Checkpoint to general delegate for development of the northern corridor, Xavier-Yves Valère. The building combines all services responsible for the formalities and controls of goods.
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Traffic at Dunkerque dropped sharply in 2020, falling 14% to 45.2 million tonnes, but there were rises for cross-Channel freight (607,000 units, + 4%) and containers (463,000teu TEU, + 2%) said the port authority in its annual figures. Other traffic was affected by the Covid outbreak and a drastic drop ...
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Dunkerque Port has elected Ms Emmanuelle Verger (left) as chair of its board of trustees for a period of 5 years. Currently the chief financial officer for EDF's Nuclear and Thermal Production Division, she joined the Dunkerque board in 2015. The Trustees also renewed the appointment of Stéphane Raison (right) ...
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