January 2016
Road Haulage Association chief executive Richard Burnett has written to French Interior Minister, Bernard Cazeneuve, insisting that he acts urgently on his recent commitment to maintain law and order in the Calais area. This follows the incident at the weekend in which migrants stormed on board a ferry, resulting in the total closure of the port for a time.
Mr Burnett said: “Simply maintaining the current level of security at Calais ...
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SEKO Logistics has created a new Aerospace & Aviation industry vertical headed by managing director, Bryan Lowrie (pictured), and headquartered in Dallas, Texas, the world’s second largest aerospace market.
The logistics company has served leading manufacturing and production customers in the industry for a number of years but is now increasing ...
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Highways England has chosen a tunnel between Tilbury and Gravesend – Option 'C' - as its preferred option for a new Lower Thames Crossing. It would provide a link between many of the south-east's major ports and the rest of the country, including Dover and the Channel Tunnel and Tilbury/London ...
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CMA CGM has strengthened its services to and from Reunion Island with the inauguration of the island's new port on 26 January. As well as links to Asia, India, East Africa, West Africa and South Africa, a weekly NEMO service now allows direct links between Europe, the Reunion Island and ...
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Tibbett Logistics – a member of the UK-based Keswick Enterprises Group – has leased 10,000sq m of warehousing at Deva in mid-West of Romania. The new space will be dedicated to automotive component suppliers.
With more than 300 FTE employees dedicated to the sector, Tibbett's automotive services now include both international ...
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MEPs approved draft rules to improve the transparency of public funding for key EU ports and common rules for ports wishing to restrict the number of service providers were approved at the Transport Committee on 25 January. But the committee rejected a proposed EU-wide free market access rule for suppliers ...
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DP World group CEO, Mohammed Sharaf has retired to pursue other opportunities. The board has started the search for a permanent successor, pending which the chairman, Sultan bin Sulayem will carry out his duties.
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Short-sea operator WEC Lines is introducing a new weekly container service between Liverpool and Lisbon, Setubal, Leixoes and Sines in Portugal from February. It also offers connections to Ireland, Scotland, Morocco, Spain and the Canaries. Kestrel is the UK agent.
WEC Lines said: “We’re seeing growing demand to ship via Liverpool ...
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Maersk Line has switched the UK call of its Samba South America service from Tilbury to DP World London Gateway Port. The first call on the service will be made by the Maersk Lanco on 21 March.
The service includes calls at Santos, Paranagua, Itajal, Buenos Aires, Montevideo, Rio Grande, Santos, ...
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The Freight Transport Association (FTA) is encouraging all freight operators to join the Civil Penalty Accreditation Scheme to help protect against fines should illegal migrants be found on-board their trucks.
Introduced by Border Force in 2015, the Scheme reduces haulage companies’ risk of receiving fines by making sure they have ...
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