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Transport minister Simon Burns officially opened a new piece of railway designed to speed freight from Felixstowe to the Midlands on 14 November. A rail 'flyover' at Nuneaton will remove conflicts between freight and passenger trains at the vital junction and is part of a long-term investment programme on the Felixstowe-Nuneaton route. The entire route can now carry high cube 9’6” high containers rather than having to move via the ...
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Maersk Line is to temporarily suspend its AE9 service from Chinese ports to Europe – including Felixstowe - until early December. It is part of a programme of capacity reductions that also sees the AE5 service from Asia to the Mediterranean permanently withdrawn.
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The Port of Felixstowe set a new record for the number of container moves in a 12 hour shift with the recent call of the Maersk Sarnia. A total of 3,431 exchanges were completed on the vessel and in a 12 hour shift, 602 moves were completed by an individual ...
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Logistics provider Pentalver has partnered with global vehicle logistics specialist Autohub and international inspection company JEVIC, to launch the UK’s first pre-clearance facility for secondhand car exports to New Zealand, which has the toughest biosecurity standards in the world.
Every vehicle shipped through the Autohub will be meticulously cleaned of biosecurity ...
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The Port of Felixstowe has set a new record, handling a total of 11,474 containers (17,211 TEUs) in a single week. This follows three weeks of record-breaking rail movements at the UK’s largest container port. David Gledhill, chief executive officer of Hutchison Ports (UK), which owns the Port of Felixstowe, ...
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