May 2014
The Port of Cork has lodged a planning application for its Ringaskiddy Port Redevelopment project in the lower harbour. It includes two new container berths, multipurpose, surfacing dredging to 13 metres, a new link-span and associated buildings.
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Software specialist AEB has published a free white paper on delivering greater customer satisfaction. It offers tips and suggestions for making the flow of goods and shipping statuses more transparent, keeping customers in the loop – and using shipping delays as an opportunity to improve overall visibility in the supply ...
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Emirates SkyCargo’s freighter fleet has officially started operating from its new cargo terminal at Dubai World Central’s (DWC) Al Maktoum International Airport.
The occasion was marked by the very early morning arrival of an Emirates SkyCargo Boeing 777 Freighter from London Heathrow, carrying over 100 tonnes of cargo. The load of ...
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Kent forwarder Seafield Aylesham has renewed its logistics contract with Pepsico Group fruit juice maker Tropicana. Seafield's freight forwarding division will control all movements of finished stocks from Hermes (25 miles outside Paris) to Haverhill in Cambridgeshire before onward distribution to retail outlets in the UK.
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Qatar opened its new Hamad International Airport on 1 May when a Qatar Airways flight became the first to officially land on the East runway, carrying the Minister of Transport and other VIPs. Ten carriers have now started operations at the new hub with the remaining carriers, including national carrier ...
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Short-sea ro ro operator Transfennica is to introduce a twice-weekly service to Portsmouth on its service from Bilbao, Spain from 13 May.
The Tuesday and Friday evening sailings from Bilbao will call Portsmouth on Thursdays at 06.00 and on Sundays at 07.00 before heading to Zeebrugge.
The new call gives customers the ...
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DFDS is to shut its historic freight and passenger ferry route between Harwich and Esbjerg on 29 September, blaming new IMO sulphur emission rules. It says that the service has been struggling for a long time with high costs and loss of traffic to the all-road route, along with the ...
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Maersk's Seago Line short-sea haul specialist is to launch a new service between Morocco and Tilbury from 1 May.
The first vessel will be the WES Carina with a cargo of fresh tomatoes and citrus fruits marking the start of the service call which will see ships arriving at LCT weekly ...
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One of the transatlantic loops of the G6 Consortium is to relocate from Felixstowe to London Gateway. Management of the new London port announced at the DP World-sponsored VIP dinner on 29 April that the PA2 service, which operates from the US West Coast would switch as part of a ...
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Palletways has added new line haul services between London and Nijmegen, London and Paris, and Paris and Madrid as part of an upgrade of its London hub to an international terminal. The new services are expected to cut transits to Palletways’ European locations by 24 hours.
Managing director of Palletways Europe, ...
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