June 2013
Sir Bobby Charlton and ‘King’ Kenny Dalglish pushed the button on the start of dredging and launched a dazzling display of fireworks over the site of the new terminal in the Mersey. The two footballing legends were invited to symbolise the great benefits that Liverpool2 – along with Peel Ports’ investments in port hubs along the Manchester Ship Canal - will bring to both the cities of Liverpool and Manchester.
Kenny ...
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The Duke of York officially opened the Port of Felixstowe's new North Rail Terminal on 6 June. The £40 million investment in the new rail terminal is part of a scheme to increase capacity at the Felixstowe and allows trains of up to 35 wagons long.
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Container freight insurer TT Club is celebrating 45 years of service to the transport and logistics sector. The club, then known as the Through Transit Club was formed in 1968, the same year that the first purpose-built cellular container ship took to the high seas.
The onset of containerisation revolutionised international ...
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Volga-Dnepr Airlines has agreed to base one of its new IL-76TD-90VD freighter aircraft at Paris-Vatry Airport in north-east France to meet growing demand for air charter operations. Volga-Dnepr has invested over US$100 million in a fleet of five new generation IL-76TD-90VD cargo aircraft. Vatry's director-general Youri Busaan described the move ...
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Eurotunnel said it would launch an appeal against a UK Competition Commission decision on 6 June to prohibit it from operating its MyFerryLink service and to ban its vessels from the port of Dover. In a statement, Groupe Eurotunnel said it would “immediately appeal this decision which the group finds ...
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Twelve of Europe’s leading food logistics providers are joining forces in a new European Food Network association, aimed at the non-frozen sector, covering the major part of the region. The UK and Ireland partner is Peter Green Chilled; others include Dachser Food Logistics (Belgium, Luxembourg, France and Germany), Papp Italia ...
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The Global Air Cargo Advisory Group (GACAG)'s new chairman says that the organisation must build on its achievements of the last two years and provide “clear pointers, direction and targets.”
Oliver Evans, chief cargo officer of Swiss International Air Lines, assumed the role after his election as chairman of The International ...
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Fruit and veg at Spitalfields market in London's East End will be replace on the evening of 11 September by 2,000 people striving to row 1 million metres in The Big Row (www.TheBigRow.org ) - all in aid of the Chauncy Maples Malawi Trust which is renovating a Lake Malawi ...
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A fruitful partnership between South African fruit exporter Dole South Africa and shipping line Safmarine has culminated in the opening of a colourful new computer laboratory and classroom at the Khensani Primary School in Soshanguve, Gauteng.
Khensani’s headmaster, Dr Fannie Sebolela, said the new lab and classrooms “will be more than ...
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The CMA CGM Jules Verne, at 16,000 teu the world’s largest containership was officially inaugurated at a special call in Marseille by President François Hollande, on 4 June. The occasion also marked the 35th anniversary of the group, which was founded in Marseille by Jacques Saadé in 1978. The ship ...
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