January 2014
UK Trade & Investment (UKTI) and the Manufacturing Advisory Service (MAS) have launched a new service to help companies bring production back to the UK – Reshore UK. It says that companies are increasingly looking to reshore manufacturing, textiles and software production to the UK instead of outsourcing overseas.
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German shipping line Hapag-Lloyd says its talks with Chilean-owned CSAV about combining their container liner shipping activities have reached the next phase. The companies have signed a non-binding memorandum of understanding. A binding contract could follow after due diligence takes place.
Hapag Lloyd tried last year to sign a deal with ...
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Panalpina says it expects to reach 500 less than containerload (LCL) services by the end of 2014, having reached a record 450 weekly services worldwide in 2013, adding 41 new routes. Roughly 15% of Panalpina’s current 450 LCL services operate two or three sailings a week.
The forwarder monitors and evaluates ...
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Thanet council failed to seize a vessel belong to bankrupt Ramsgate-Ostend ferry operator TransEuropa because its legal officer was away from his desk, according to http://www.thisiskent.co.uk. The website said that the council's TransEuropa debt review group heard that harbour master Robert Brown called the council's legal officer Harvey Patterson about ...
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Rhenus Logistics has opened a facility in Belfast. It will allow direct groupage services by road between Europe and Northern Ireland as well as a direct Scandinavian service as well as enabling customers to benefit from FCL and LCL rates when exporting or importing worldwide. Rhenus' MD, David Williams (pictured ...
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Europa Worldwide Logistics, the company taken over by former RH Freight boss Andrew Baxter, says it has made its biggest single investment in a new head office and South of England Hub at Prologis Park in Littlebrook, Dartford.
Europa has signed a lease agreement with specialist developer Prologis for 262,500 sq ...
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Royal Bank of Scotland is donating £50,000 to The High Tide Foundation, a charity created and driven by port-related businesses to provide opportunities for the young people of Teesside. As well as funding, RBS will also provide in-kind resources to a number of the charity’s programmes, including its Summer Scheme, ...
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The European Logistics Association will hold the first-ever European Supply Chain Day on 10 April. Activities such as school visits, tours of warehouses, opening up back-offices to visitors, talks and site visits will take place across the UK and throughout Europe on the same day.
Held under the umbrella of the ...
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Marine education group Seavision and the Institute of Marine Engineering, Science and Technology, ran a photo competition between September and December 2013. Chloe Morling took the top prize in the 11-14 category with 'Steered by Technology”.
In the 15 to 18 category, Craig Shewry won with 'Plotting The Fix' and, for ...
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Ellesmere Port-based Quality Freight has transported some of the components for Alstom’s new power station in Trafford, Manchester via its local port. The modules are being shipped into Ellesmere Port – whose owner, Peel Ports, recently announced a plan to market the the location as as a logistics hub – ...
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