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Forth Ports' London Container Terminal in Tilbury handled its largest-ever container ship on the weekend of 22-23 March. Hamburg Sud's Cap San Lorenzo, with her cargo of over 9600teu, turns the scale at around 124,500 tonnes. The LCT team completed the work in 22 hours, two hours ahead of scheduled departure, at a gross productivity rate of 26 moves per hour.
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The Port of Tilbury has opened a new London Paper Terminal (LPT) following a £3.5million in vestment programme. This includes the latest equipment such as intelligent clamps for safe handling of paper rolls as well as liftec and reach-stacker equipment, plus IT systems. Major customers UPM, Sappi and Kotkamills have ...
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Forth Ports marine manager Ashley Nicholson has become the UK's youngest certified female harbour master and one of the first in the UK to achieve the Maritime and Coastguard Agency (MCA) accredited Harbour Masters Certificate. She and 11 other candidates from different port businesses across the UK volunteered to take ...
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Forth Ports has signed a two-year partnership with heavy transport specialist Collett & Sons to launch a Heavy Lift and Port facility at the Port of Grangemouth. The three-acre site will be Collett’s Scottish headquarters and will act as a central hub in Scotland for importing wind turbine components. It ...
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Forth Ports has been named as the official Supplier of Port Services for the Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games. It will supply 350 40ft shipping containers to pack and store equipment purchased from London 2012 Organisers, LOCOG for use in the Glasgow 2014 Athletes Villages including beds, tables and lamps, as ...
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Forth Ports has appointed Janice McCann to the new role of group head of health & safety. She will head Health & Safety across the Group which owns and operates eight commercial ports across the UK including Tilbury on the Thames, Leith, Grangemouth, Rosyth and Dundee and employs over 1,150 ...
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Forth Ports’ Stuart Wallace has returned north of the border to the new role of divisional director for Scotland. He has been with Forth Ports for over ten years, and has spent the past two years at the company’s London port, where he oversaw the integration of the UK’s third ...
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Forth Ports has signed a deal with Roxhill Developments for a new joint venture to build the London Distribution Park (LDP) at its Port of Tilbury, near London. The specialist industrial development company has bought a 50% share in the development scheme from Forth Ports, and the two companies will ...
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Forth Ports has confirmed a new five-year agreement with Meyer Timber to relocate its main Scottish distribution hub to the port of Grangemouth. The company, which supplies wood-based panel products, gains significant on-quay storage facilities at the port, with a 25,000sq ft landed stock warehouse and an option to increase ...
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