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MSC boss is Multimodal man of the year

MSC managing director Dan Everitt was named FTA Multimodal Personality of the Year on 10 May, the opening day of the show, which welcomed a record numbers of visitors. Peel Ports was Multimodal Exhibitor of the Year, Joseph Peak of Expeditors won the Young Logistics Professional Award, and Marks and Spencer and Bibby Distribution were both championed by FTA for their green initiatives. Awards also went to Freightliner, IAG Cargo, Mitsui OSK ... [+]

First Swan for Southampton

DP World Southampton handled the first vessel on MSC's new AE2/Swan service on 21 October, with one of the fastest transit times from Asia to the UK. The new route has a 24 day transit time from Yantian (South China) to Southampton and 19 days from Tanjung Pelepas in Malaysia. ... [+]

MSC and Maersk clip Condor’s wings

MSC is to cease operation of its ‘Condor’ service, jointly operated with Maersk Line between Asia and Europe, from 14 September. However, the Condor service which has a nominal weekly capacity of 9,500 teu, will be deployed as a seasonal service if there is sufficient demand. MSC says that since its ... [+]

MSC goes all out to Oz from London Gateway

MSC's Australia Express Service has started calls at DP World London Gateway Port, providing direct calls to King Abdullah port in Saudi Arabia, Colombo in Sri Lanka and ports around the Australian coast. It will be the fastest direct service between Northern Europe and Australia. Earlier, MSC announced a new direct ... [+]

MSC adds London Gateway-Australia service

MSC's Australia Express is now providing direct calls between London Gateway and Sydney, offering the fastest direct service between Australia and the UK and North West Continent. The service also calls at Melbourne, Adelaide, Fremantle, Singapore and Colombo. MSC has also added the Spanish North African enclave of Ceuta as a ... [+]

MSC goes for another Indian port

MSC is adding a direct call at the east coast Indian port of Hazira from July 2015. The route, operated by seven 9,000teu ships, is served from Felixstowe in the UK. [+]

Condor trims its wings

MSC is bucking the trend towards ever-larger container ships by reducing the average vessel size on its Asia-Europe Condor service from 9,500 to 6,500teu. The move follows extensive analysis of capacity on its services against current and anticipated demands. The network changes will apply to Maersk Line, MSC's partner in ... [+]

Oscar for Felixstowe

The world's largest containership, MSC Oscar is en route to the UK. Having called in Rotterdam from Algeciras on 3 March the 19,224teu ship's next call is Bremerhaven followed by Felixstowe on 9 March. [+]

Updated: Quick link Down Under

  MSC is introducing a new Australia Express link to Northern Europe. A fleet of 12 4,800teu vessels will operate between Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide, Fremantle, Singapore, Chennai, Colombo, King Abdullah Port (Saudi Arabia) to Gioia Tauro and Valencia, with weekly connections to and from the UK and Ireland. MSC has also restructured ... [+]

Potter swings it for shipping line

Potter Logistics’ says its Selby rail freight terminal was able to maintain turn-round times for the daily GBRf-operated MSC container train from Felixstowe port from July to September 2014, despite engineering work on a local swing bridge reducing available time by 50 minutes. Pictured: Jason Croft, account manager - GBRf (L) ... [+]

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