January 2019

Ferrymasters offers sea link to Turkey

P&O Ferrymasters has launched ferry services between the Turkish ports of Pendik, Ambarli and Mersin to Trieste, Italy, with onward connections to and from its European intermodal network. Departures six times a week in both directions will connect in Trieste with trains to and from P&O Ferries’ continental hubs at Rotterdam and Zeebrugge, giving transit times of less than a week between Turkey and Europe’s main logistics hubs. Intermodal director ... [+]

ABP signs Lowestoft offshore deal

Offshore service provider Peterson UK has signed a new long-term agreement with Associated British Ports for a new operational and logistics base in Lowestoft. Peterson operate a wide range of warehouse, cargo and logistic services from the port, including fuel bunkering to support the oil and gas and renewable energy ... [+]

Ports look beyond Brexit

The British Ports Association will be promoting its ‘zoning’ policy in 2019, said chief executive Richard Ballantyne in outlining the key priorities for 2019. The BPA’s Port Development and Enterprise Zone concept is a vision for areas around ports to be classified with a special planning, consenting, business and regulatory status ... [+]

Wagons roll in Manston

Live tests are currently underway to test the feasibility of using the disused Manston airport as an overflow lorry park in the event of post-Brexit problems in Dover or the Channel Tunnel. A fleet of 89 empty trucks, hired-in by the Department for Transport at taxpayer’s expense, set off at ... [+]

Dunkerque steps up rail shuttles

Novatrans subsidiary Greenmodal Transport and Dunkerque-Port have joined forces to extend multimodal services to and from the port. It now serves all major rail hubs in the South of France including Bordeaux, Bayonne, Toulouse, Perpignan, Marseille, Lyon and Avignon and Northern Italy (Turin, Novara, Milan). The service will be open ... [+]

Fire breaks out on Hapag Lloyd ship

Fire broke out in a deck container on board Hapag Lloyd’s 7,510teu Yantian Express 650 miles off the coast of Canada while en route from Colombo to Halifax on 3 January. The crew of were reported unharmed, but efforts to extinguish the fire had to be suspended for the time ... [+]

DFDS takes delivery of Immingham crane

DFDS has taken delivery of a new 124 tonne Liebherr mobile harbour crane as part of an investment programme from the start of 2019. The twin-lift container spreader crane will be able to handle containers, project cargo and break-bulk cargo handling. Although classed as a mobile crane, it will spend ... [+]

GoodShip comes aboard the good ship SEKO

SEKO Logistics has acquired Chicago-based forwarder and customer broker and compliance consultancy, GoodShip International. Founded 24 years ago, GoodShip International provides customs brokerage, compliance, air and ocean freight solutions to a range of clients with emphasis on transpacific eastbound cargo movements. SEKO president and chief executive James Gagne said: “GoodShip ... [+]

Fourth aircraft for Russian express airline

Volga-Dnepr Group’s Russian express arm, Atran Airlines has taken delivery of a Boeing 737-400 BCF, bringing its fleet to four freighters. It will be deployed on existing routes between Russia, the CIS and Europe and will and can carry up to 23 tons of cargo [+]

Cargo-partner makes good progress in Slovenia

Austrian-headquartered logistics firm Cargo-partner says that construction of its new iLogistics Center in Ljubljana, Slovenia is making rapid progress. Topping out of the high rack warehouse took place in November all is on schdule for planned opening in the summer. Located next to Ljubljana Airport, the iLogistics Center will provide ... [+]

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