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Pentalver opens London Gateway extension

Pentalver Transport has officially opened its expanded container facility at DP World London Gateway. Pentalver, a subsidiary of Genesee & Wyoming, which also owns rail operator Freightliner opened the first phase in 2013. The expanded site adds 40% additional capacity and includes loaded and empty container storage, reefer and dry container maintenance and repair, transport and cargo handling. DP World UK chief executive Chris Lewis said: “Phase two of the development has ... [+]

CMA remakes Big Chill at London Gateway

CMA CGM is to take a long lease in a build-to-suit, multi-temperature warehouse facility at DP World London Gateway Logistics Park in order to concentrate all its UK reefer activity at the port. Shipping Group’s freight forwarding and logistics solutions subsidiary is taking a one hectare cold store facility within a ... [+]

APL to launch 12-day London-New York service

APL – now part of the CMA CGM Group - has launched a new North Atlantic Service (NAS), between London Gateway, the north-West Continent and the US east coast from 3 January. The line says it will offer transit times of 12 days from London to New York. The route will also ... [+]

Fruit firm takes London Gateway lease

Fruit importer SH Pratt Group is to take a lease on a bespoke temperature-controlled distribution facility at DP World London Gateway. The Luton-based firm will site its new ‘Halo’ multi-temperature operation at the site. The facility on the port logistics park's west zone will have regimes from frozen to ambient ... [+]

MSC launches London Gateway-West Africa service

MSC’s West Africa Service started calls at DP World London Gateway with the visit of the MSC Sabrina on 27 June. The service calls at ports including Dakar, Abidjan, Lagos, Tema with transit times of around 22 days. MSC UK commercial director, Michael Collins, said: “This move follows the reconfiguration of ... [+]

GB Railfreight to run London

GB Railfreight has signed a three-year contract to manage the movement and preparation of all trains running in and out of the DP World London Gateway Port. The company has added eight employees who were previously working at the port for the former operator. GBRf managing director John Smith, said: “This ... [+]

‘Orient Express’ is set to run and run

The China Rail Express service, first operated on a trial basis in January, could develop into a regular fortnightly operation, according to a spokesman for DP World London Gateway. At a ceremony on 10 April to mark the first return service from the UK back to Yiwu, near Shanghai, DP World ... [+]

London Gateway breaks into the big time – updated

DP World’s London Gateway port is to handle its first direct Asia/Europe services from April when the newly formed The Alliance consortium starts operations at the Thameside terminal. Announcing its service plans, the grouping – which consists of Hapag Lloyd, K-Line, MOL, NYK Line and Yang Ming – said its FE3 and ... [+]

New Caribbean call for London Gateway

The joint CMA CGM-Hapag Lloyd European Caribbean Service is to call at DP World London Gateway, its first ever UK port, from 6 January. Dedicated to reefer transport, the service will provide one of the shortest transit times between Central America and North Europe and also connects the UK with the ... [+]

London Gateway starts work on logistics phase II

DP World has begun work on the second and final phase of the DP World London Gateway Logistics Centre. It will create 180,000sq ft of cross-dock distribution warehousing and office space in addition to the 207,000sq ft of in phase 1, completed in early 2015. Phase Two will be available for ... [+]

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