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Port of Dover Cargo has appointed Tom Robb as business development manager, focusing on the perishable sector. He will be responsible for driving commercial expansion across the perishables supply chain, strengthening relationships with existing and new partners, and enhancing the port’s position as a destination for perishable cargo import and export, delivering solutions for growers, importers, retailers, shipping lines and logistics providers. Doverhandles substantial volumes of fresh produce and temperature-sensitive ...
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Port of Dover Cargo says it has had a successful citrus season this year. Working closely with the Reefer Alliance service, operated jointly by Seatrade and Cool Carriers, the Port of Dover handled weekly citrus import shipments between June and October.
In 2025, the South Africa (SAF) service expanded its schedule, ...
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The Port of Dover revealed a new framework to unlock its full potential and drive economic growth at the Labour Party Conference in Liverpool on 23 September.
Port of Dover 2050: Empower Exchange aims to facilitate an rise in the value of trade of up to £173bn a year, an increase ...
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The Port of Dover has launched a six-week public engagement period to 31 March, seeking the views of local communities, users and wider stakeholders on the outcomes and ideas they think the Port should pursue to 2050. It is the latest phase of the Port of Dover 2050 programme to ...
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The Port of Dover and the Universities of Plymouth and Manchester have been awarded a £333,585 grant by Innovate UK to create a digital twin of the ro ro port.
The funding underpins a three-year Knowledge Transfer Partnership (KTP), that will harness the universities’ expertise in hydrodynamic modelling and cutting-edge research ...
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The Port of Dover has processed 29,108 miles of freight, car and coach traffic since 1 January 2023 – enough to stretch round the world and then some.
The ferry terminal handled £144bn worth of UK trade and 33% of the UK’s trade with the EU, every year on just 0.68 ...
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The Port of Dover set out its future at the Conservative and Labour autumn party conferences, hosting a ‘Great British Trade Reception’.
It was attended by policymakers, industry colleagues and ministers alike, including Secretary of State for Transport Mark Harper and Trade & Economic Security Minister Nusrat Ghani MP at the ...
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The Port of Dover has signed partnerships the Universities of Manchester, Cranfield, Liverpool, and Kent to develop technological solutions including artificial intelligence, machine learning and physics-based deep learning.
Work with the University of Manchester is focused on the development of a digital twin for the Port of Dover, utilising machine learning ...
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July 4 may be an important date across the Pond but it is also a significant anniversary on the English Channel – it was on that date in 1953 that the Port of Dover's roll-on, roll-off berths opened, transforming ferry travel forever.
Up to that date, vehicles were laboriously loaded on ...
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Port of Dover Cargo handled its largest amount of fresh produce, with 31 vessel calls between December and March. It distributed over 22,000 pallets and 700 containers of fruit to UK supermarkets from South Africa, and Central/South America, imported by GreenSea and Seatrade vessels. Dover’s cargo terminal can handle temperatures ...
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