November 2011
The IRU’s Goods Transport Council has adopted revised conditions for the international carriage of goods and new insurance guidelines for transport operators. The new conditions include provisions related to new security regulations deriving from the implementation of the WCO SAFE Framework of Standards, such as the Authorised Economic Operator (AEO) status, as well as the increasing use of electronic consignment notes and electronic communications to submit customs declarations. They also ...
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Zim Line and MSC have signed a swap agreement for the Europe-Med trade. Zim Line said tat it would give an extended range of direct calls, improved transit times, increased reefer capability and better reliability.
From mid-November, Zim’s Asia-Med-Europe (AME) service and MSC’s Israel Express Service will swap space in the ...
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The Freight Transport Association is calling on EU Transport Commissioner Siim Kallas to step in and halt legislation that could limit the height of future semi-trailers to four metres. FTA has written to the Commissioner urging him to iwithdraw the proposals before they pass beyond his control in the Brussels ...
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Swansea-Cork ferry operator has been placed in interim examinership – the Irish equivalent of Chapter 11 – and has suspended services, although the company's management have pledged to resume operations in April next year. The company said that it had been hit by high fuel costs, which had made winter ...
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CSAV has introduced a new direct service between Ecuador and North Europe. It operates from Guayaquil, Balboa and Cristobal, Bremerhaven to Rotterdam, Antwerp, Balboa and back to Guayaquil. The service will be operated in cooperation with MSC using six 4,200teu vessels.
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Shortsea operator Containerships says that there has been in marked increase in the time required by Baltics Customs to issue transit documents for bonded deliveries to Russia via all St. Petersburg port terminal and inland border crossing points. Shipment shave been delayed for several days leading to increased demurrage costs.
A ...
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Freight services in Thailand are being badly disputed by flooding in the capital, Bangkok, reports forwarder Geodis Wilson. It said that Air Freight Bangkok's Suvarnabhumi International Airport is operational, but all flights to and from the city’s Don Muang Airport have been cancelled. The water crest has not reached Suvanrabhumi and ...
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The Multimodal freight industry event takes place on 1-3 May at the National Exhibition Centre (NEC) in Birmingham. Organisers said that many shipping, freight, logistics, rail, road haulage, port services, warehousing and distribution and software companies have already committed to exhibiting, to the 2012 event including ABP, Brittany Ferries, Charles ...
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The International Air Cargo Association (TIACA)'s chairman Michael Steen has added his voice to industry criticism of the Hesse regional court's ban on night flights at Frankfurt airport , ahead of a decision by the Federal Court. Steen said the short notice given ahead of the suspension of night flights ...
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A paper on an air freight import consignment of rabies-infected racoon brain tissue from the US to Ireland helped win Silvia Valles Barrera of Dublin-based Hawthorn Logistics the Young International Freight Forwarder of the Year Award, presented recently at the Annual FIATA Conference in Cairo. Ms Valles Barrera, already named ...
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