September 2016
Ukraine launched a request for consultation at the World Trade Organisation against Russian restrictions on transit traffic on 14 Setpember. The move formally initiates a dispute in the WTO and gives the parties an opportunity to discuss the matter and to find a satisfactory solution without proceeding further with litigation. After 60 days, if consultations have failed to resolve the dispute, the complainant may request adjudication by a panel.
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UK independent freight forwarder Davies Turner has recruited apprentices for its two-year national apprenticeship and trainee programme for the seventh year in succession. Moreover, it has increased the number of recruits every year since it became an early adopter of the revitalised apprenticeship concept in 2010, and this year will ...
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Freight Transport Association’s director of global and European policy repeated calls for an urgent Government decision on a third runway at Heathrow at the ‘Shaping the Future Heathrow’ Conference at the Royal Institute of British Architects on 14 September. He told delegates that the Brexit vote makes connectivity to new ...
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U-Freight Group chief executive, Simon Wong, has welcomed a call by the boss of online retailer Alibaba Group for an electronic world trade platform to make it easier for small and medium-sized enterprises to expand. The call was made recently by Jack Ma, Alibaba Group’s executive chairman.
Wong agrees that e-commerce ...
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Dutch Customs has launched a simplified e-commerce declaration called VENUE to keep growing volumes of smaller shipments moving smoothly through Amsterdam Airport Schiphol. It is designed to help shippers import and export items that are being purchased via e-commerce platforms - such as fashion, personal care, and homeware - throughout ...
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Former transport minister Lord Prescott called for the transpennine corridor from Liverpool to the east coast to be developed as an alternative to sending most freight down to Dover.
At a House of Commons event on 13 September to mark the setting up of an association by four of the ...
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Rail freight currently carries one in four of the containers coming into our ports but could carry an even higher proportion, said rail minister Paul Maynard on publishing the government’s new Rail Freight Strategy on 13 September.
Rail reduces carbon emissions by around three quarters compared to road, and also ...
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ABP has ordered two Terex Gottwald harbour cranes to replace older equipment in Southampton (similar to the type illustrated). They will primarily be used to unload palletised fruit traffic and will have a maximum lifting capacity of 63t. They will also be able to handle general cargo and containers in ...
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UK customs clearance agent ChannelPorts is using Descartes e-Customs and Descartes Pentant solutions to improve the speed and visibility of its declarations.
ChannelPorts managing director Paul Wells says that the Descartes Pentant application would give a flexible and cost-effective solution designed around the company’s specific operational and logistical needs to manage ...
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All-cargo carrier Cargolux is introducing a new direct flight from Luxembourg to Aguadilla, Puerto Rico, on 2 October. The 747-8F leaves Luxembourg every Sunday at 22.15h and arrives in San Juan on Mondays at 1.30h (all times local).The aircraft is ideally suited for perishable and cool chain shipments with its ...
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