June 2017
DFDS has ordered a further two new 6,700 lane metre freight ro ro ships, in addition to the two similar vessels already under construction at the Jinling shipward in China.
Like their sister ships, they will have space for 450 trailers each, making them DFDS' biggest ever ships, and are due to be delivered by 2020. The two previously ordered ships are due to be delivered by 2019.
All four vessels will ...
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Animal protection organisation Cruelty Free International has renewed its call for Air France to end the transport of research monkeys, saying that it had received information of secret primate shipments from Mauritius. According to an investigation, 120 long-tailed macaques were shipped by Air France from Mauritius to Chicago via Paris ...
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Scottish Traffic Commissioner Joan Aitken is to become an ambassador for Transaid. Having spent the last 14 years as Traffic Commissioner for Scotland and a Chartered Fellow of the Institute of Logistics & Transport, she will be raising the international development organisation’s profile, as well as promoting events and creating ...
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Ten Teesside secondary school students got the chance to experience life on the ocean wave thanks to the PD Ports and Casper Shipping-sponsored High Tide Foundation.
They took part in a five-day voyage up the east coast of the UK supported by Ocean Youth Trust and Moore Stephens, departing last month ...
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Indian manufacturer Glenmark Pharmaceuticals has appointed a contract to Yusen Logistics. The forwarder will use its 15,000sq m GDP compliant, MHRA licenced warehousing facility at Grange Park, Northampton to handle all Glenmark product destined for the UK market, including temperature controlled pallet storage and pick and pack and managing nationwide ...
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Low-carbon cement maker Ecocem Ireland has opened its second UK bulk import terminal at Sheerness. It represents a £2.5million investment with Sheerness’s owner, Peel Ports. Ecocem Ireland’s first UK bulk import facility in Runcorn opened in early 2016 and the launch at Sheerness will allow it to supply a further ...
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Emirates SkyCargo has transported the first car designed and built entirely in the UAE to France, the Design-1, in conjunction with specialist forwarder Prodex Worldwide.
This being Dubai, it is no ordinary runabout but a sports car designed and built by Jannarelly Automotive with Equation Composites using hi-tech composite materials and ...
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With Brexit negotiations about to enter full flow, the British International Freight Association is looking to beef-up its training services by appointing an additional trainer in customs and freight procedures.
BIFA director general Robert Keen says customs procedures will be at the heart of the Brexit negotiations and BIFA is expecting ...
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Commenting ahead of the delayed Queen’s Speech and start of Brexit negotiations on 19 June, British International Freight Association (BIFA) director general, Robert Keen says: “The goalposts may well have moved since the results of the general election, but the playing field remains the same.
“There is uncertainty about when we ...
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Lutterworth-based forwarder and logistics company CML has shipped a range of goods to a Senegal primary school to support a project run by the parents of its global logistics manager, Paul Bambrough-Smith.
It follows John and Rosie Smith’s holiday to the region in January including visit to a remote where they ...
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