October 2013
The Port of Tilbury handled its largest ever vessel in late October when the MV Koutalianos arrived to collect 50,000 tonnes of barley for Saudi Arabia. Weighing in at 93,000 tonnes and 230 metres long, – the size of two football pitches laid end-to-end – she will carry the harvest from over 15,000 acres (6300 hectares) of UK farmland.
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IAG Cargo, the cargo business of British Airways and Iberia, is flying an additional air freighter service from London Stansted to Hong Kong, bringing its frequency from the Territory to six a week from 31 October, plus its regular passenger flights. IAG Cargo managing director, Steve Gunning said the additional ...
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John Good Shipping has been appointed agent for short-sea container operator Team Lines Germany GmbH and its subsidiary, Delphis Logistics. Team Lines connects over 30 ports from the Iberian Peninsular to the Baltics with fixed-day weekly sailings and has just returned to the UK market with a new weekly service ...
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Emirates SkyCargo has taken delivery of a tenth Boeing 777 Freighter aircraft, ahead of the move of its freighter operations to Dubai World Central’s Al Maktoum International Airport in May 2014. The aircraft is capable of carrying 103 tonnes of cargo and its main cargo deck is the widest of ...
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French ferry operator LD Lines is to introduce a new freight and passenger service between Poole and Santander in Northern Spain from 3 November.
LD Lines, which already runs a service from Saint Nazaire, south of Brittany and Gijón in Northern Spain, described it as a major development in the creation ...
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The Port of London Authority has appointed Robin Mortimer as chief executive, succeeding Richard Everitt, who has held the position since December 2004. Robin Mortimer will join the PLA in March 2014. He is currently a director in the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs where he led the ...
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Panalpina said on 23 October that it had entered into a preliminary agreement to settle a US class lawsuit filed in 2008 over anticompetitive practices on freight surcharges. The forwarder has agreed to pay US$35 million, which includes previously received proceeds of USD 5.8 million, in an unrelated class action ...
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P3 plans revealed
CMA CGM has revealed details of its planned P3 network that it plans to set up with its new partners Maersk and MSC. Claiming the most comprehensive network on the three main East West Trades, there will be 13 weekly services on the Asia-Europe/Mediterranean trades, five weekly Transatlanticservices ...
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Renfrew-based Link Transport & Warehousing, a sister company of forwarder Air Sea Scotland – one of the largest independent freight forwarders in the country, has joined the Pall-Ex freight network to cover part of the G and PA postcode areas. Link Transport & Warehousing was founded in 2005 and is ...
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The European Commission unveiled plans on 23 October to standardise VAT returns across the Union from 2017. Under its plans, there would be five mandatory information boxes to be completed (chargeable VAT, deductible VAT, net VAT amount, total value of input transactions and total value of output transactions) although member ...
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