January 2018
The Freight Transport Association (FTA) has acquired air cargo security and dangerous goods training company T Team. The company, which trades as TrainingTeam provides industry approved specialist training courses at venues across the country and online, which focus on air cargo security and the movement of dangerous goods by air, road and sea.
TrainingTeam was founded by Charles Manetta in 1988 after a successful career in airline ground operations and staff ...
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The UK government has held informal talks on joining the Trans Pacific Partnership, according to a report in the Financial Times. The 11-member partnership currently consists of Australia, Brunei, Canada, Chile, Japan, Malaysia, Mexico, New Zealand, Peru, Singapore and Vietnam, after the Trump administration left the grouping in 2017.
Although all ...
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The Ocean Alliance -CMA CGM, COSCO, Evergreen and OOCL – has announced details of its new services from April 2018. The second phase of the network will see the roll out more than 40 services deploying approximately 340 containerships with a capacity of about 3.6 million teu.
Routes covering UK ports ...
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Dr Marco Schröter was appointed chairman of the supervisory board for the Rhenus Group on 14 December. He takes over from Reinhard Lohmann, who has reached the age limit for board membership.
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Captain Phil Buckley (right) takes over as harbour master at the port of Southampton when Captain Martin Phipps retires.
He is now responsible for the safe navigation of all vessels on one of the busiest waterways in the world and across the wider Solent – last year 160,000 vessel movements, including ...
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Tilbury could be as big a freight gateway to Europe as Dover in a few years’ time, according to P&O Ferries.
The cross-channel operator reports that it carried more freight between Zeebrugge and Tilbury in 2017 than in any other year in the decade long history of the route.
The service carried ...
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Irish Continental has ordered a second large cruise ferry for its Dublin-Holyhead route from Flensburger Schiffbau-Gesselschaft in Germany.
The €165.2 million vessel, scheduled for delivery before mid-2020, will be the largest cruise ferry in the world in terms of vehicle capacity, says the company, with space for up to 330 freight ...
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Hutchison Ports, owner of the Port of Felixstowe, has acquired a 50% shareholding in Benelux cargo terminal operator TMA Logistics. TMA has a variety of general cargo operations together with warehousing, shipping, logistics and project cargo activities at three sites in Amsterdam and one in Antwerp as well as at ...
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Port of Antwerp International (PAI), the consultancy and investment arm of the Belgian port authority, is to manage the port of Cotonou on a temporary basis. PAI’s main task will be to modernise its organisation, renovate obsolescent facilities and prepare for and guide the expansion of the port,, which currently ...
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