January 2014
Short-sea shipping and logistics specialist OPDR (Oldenburg-Portugiesische Dampfschiffs-Rhederei) will include a further two calls per week on its CISS Canary Island Services to Tilbury from mid-January. It follows the agreement in November last year for Tilbury's London Container Terminal to handle over 200 calls a year for OPDR services on their routes between the Iberian Peninsula including the Canary Islands, North Africa and the UK.
In December, OPDR launched a new ...
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Van der Vlist recently moved two 15-ton silos and three truckloads of parts from central Europe to Saratov in South-western Russia. While the tilt-trucks of parts drove straight through to the destination, the 18m long silos moved 1000km by road to the North of Germany for loading onto a ferry ...
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Scandinavian forwarder Greencarrier Shipping & Logistics is expanding its services to the oil and gas industry, appointing a new head of the energy and projects business unit and opening an office in Stavanger, Norway. The company has identified project forwarding and the energy industry as two of its main target ...
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Evergreen delivers aid to the Philippines
Evergreen carried four 20-ft containers of relief supplies from Port Klang to to Cebu in the Philippines to help with the typhoon Haiyan relief effort in late December. They included drinking water, dry food, tents, medical and sanitarian items, collected by Malaysian-based Crisis Relief Services ...
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Yusen Logistics is expanding its operations in Duisburg, Germany, the world’s largest inland port. The expanded operation builds on YL’s current capacity of 42,000m² comprising five warehouses close to the container terminals and adds a 26,000m² across three further facilities. It includes an additional 10,000 m² of fully racked storage, ...
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Freight Systems Express Wales (FSEW), based at South Wales International Freightliner Terminal in Wentloog near Cardiff, has appointed Keith Davies as international sales and development manager. He has worked in the freight industry for over 20 years and until recently held a sales development role for Schenker Bristol, saying: “South ...
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Zim Line is offering a service to Paraguay via a barge service between the port of Asuncion connecting and Montevideo, Uruguay. Connections are available to and from all major trade routes.
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The Port of Cork has been awarded funding by the Trans-European Transport Network (TEN-T) programme for development of facilities in Ringaskiddy. Following public consultation, Cork anticipates that it lodge a planning application in the first quarter of 2014.
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RAK Airways – the national airline of the emirate of Ras Al Kaimah in the UAE – suspended its operatjions on 1 January “until further notice”. It blamed “market conditions, increased operating costs and the impact of the regional political instability on the overall aviation industry.” RAK Airways operated cargo ...
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