June 2016
The G6 container alliance says it will suspend its Loop 6 service between Asia and Europe until further notice to adjust to market demand. Loops 1, 4, 5 and 7 – all of which serve Southampton – will continue to operate.
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Immingham – the town, not the port - is hoping to repeat last year’s feat when it took the top spot in the East Midlands in Bloom event, with the help of Associated British Ports (ABP)
ABP announced that for the third year running, it will be the town’s main sponsor ...
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The Road Haulage Association (RHA) has marked its first anniversary as a corporate member of Transaid by presenting the charity with a cheque for £5,354 at the Association’s annual members’ lunch.
The donation, which was presented by Richard Burnett, the RHA’s CEO, was raised as a result of the company’s new ...
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Duties, border delays and transport costs will make EU-based smaller companies reluctant to trade with the UK following Brexit, says a new report by parcel broker, ParcelHero.
According to Delivering Brexit, 66% of ParcelHero’s customers who regularly ship items to European non-EU countries, such as Switzerland and Norway, say they would ...
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Piracy off the Nigerian coastline is on the rise again, warns global consultancy, Control Risks. Attacks in the first four months of this year are 21% higher than at their peak in 2008 and the frequency of incidents is 119% higher compared with the same period in 2015.
Control Risks says ...
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Emirates has extended its mission to support the United for Wildlife alliance to a familiar Heathrow landmark – the 1/3 scale model of the A380 aircraft that sits on the traffic roundabout at the entrance to the tunnels leading to the main terminals. The animal-themed logo is already carried by ...
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Up to now deliveries into space have been solely a subject for FBJ’s cartoonist, but Deutsche Post DHL Group really is planning to become the first logistics company to make deliveries to the Moon. The German-owned delivery giant, together with Airbus’s Defence and Space arm, has gone into partnership with ...
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UK businesses face three possible outcomes if the UK chooses Brexit on 23 June – all of them liable to involve increased paperwork and red tape, says the boss of a Yorkshire freight forwarder.
David Johnson, managing director of Tudor International Freight, based at Rawdon, near Leeds, describes them as the ...
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The Freight Transport Association (FTA) has launched the 21st edition of its European Road Transport Guide. The publication, sponsored by Eurotunnel, is sent free to the Association’s international members and offers essential information including public holidays, weekend lorry bans, toll prices and useful addresses. The latest edition features Andorra for ...
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New scheme to improve rail efficiency
A new European project is aiming to improve underpeforming rail freight services in Europe. EU/Shift2Rail project (http://www.smartrail-project.eu/) is an EU-wide effort with 19 partners and consists of seven theoretical and practical work packages (WP).
German-based consultancy Railistics is leading WP6 which focuses on developing on single wagon load services ...
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