December 2013
PD Stirling and the ID Meiklam Trust have submitted a planning application to extend the International Railfreight Terminal at Mossend in Central Scotland. The proposed £250m International Railfreight Terminal would add 350 acres to the existing site and allow 775m long trains, with 200,000sq m of warehousing added in a phased scheme between 2015 and 2030. A decision on the planning application is due in early summer 2014.
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Spliethoff Group European ro ro subsidiary Transfennica says it plans to add Alfa Laval’s exhaust scrubbers to five of its motor ships. It follows a successful 12-month trial in which one of the largest marine exhaust gas scrubbing systems was installed on the MV Plyca. The new equipment will bring ...
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Lufthansa Cargo has introduced a new tracking service using GSM transponders. The devices have been specifically designed for use on board aircraft and is the first officially certified equipment of its type, which switch off automatically during flight.
Lufthansa Cargo will provide the devices, weighinbg just 50 grams, which shippers can ...
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No, there hasn't been a major disaster at a distribution centre - Potter Logistics lent their Queen Adelaide Way site in Ely to Cambridgeshire firefighters for an exercise on 2 December.
About 25 firefighters in total took part in the evening exercise; the scenario created was a fire in a warehouse ...
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The International Road Transport Union (IRU) has accused Russian Customs of spreading confusion over TIR. While the Customs service had officially announced a stay of execution until 1 July 2014, immediately afterwards it “once again disregarded the TIR Convention by unilaterally issuing, on 2 December 2013, a list of offices ...
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German container shipping line Hapag Lloyd says it has started talks with its Chilean counterpart, CSAV. The discussions concern a “possible business combination” or other form of association but no binding agreement has been signed yet.
Hapag Lloyd had previously been in discussions with fellow German line Hamburg Sud, but without ...
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The US Federal Maritime Commission asked for additional information about the proposed P3 shipping alliance on 5 December. It said the move would delay introduction of the proposed agreement – should mit ultimately be approved because a new 45-day regulatory review period will begin.
It followed a request by the Global ...
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The European Shippers' Council (ESC) said that the two major shipping alliances – the G6, which announced in early December that it will expand its cooperation to the transatlantic and Asia-North America West Coast and trade lanes and the planned P3 cooperation between Maersk, MSC and CMA CGM would have ...
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The Chancellor's Autumn statement, published on 5 December, cancelled September 2014's planned increase in fuel duty. It also doubled UK Export Finance's lending to exporters to £50 billion.
The fuel duty freeze was welcomed by Europa managing director, Andrew Baxter, who said: “At last, the Government has recognised the need for ...
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P&O Ferries is operating an amended sailing schedule for the Christmas and New Year period. As before, there are no sailings on Christmas Day and last sailings on 24 December will be from Dover at 14.25 and from Calais at 17.45. There will be a reduced service on 26 December ...
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