May 2019
Maersk Line says it has become the first container shipping company to offer digital ocean customs clearance. It has launched a customs clearance online shipping management platform in The UK, Germany, France, Denmark, the Netherlands and Poland with the goal of expanding this offering across the world by the end of 2019.
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ABP’s Port of Southampton has taken possession of the first phase of a £15 million multi-deck vehicle export terminal. Parts of deck one and two have been handed over to ABP releasing nearly 1,000 spaces for automotive import and export.
The occasion was marked by a plaque unveiled by US ...
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The Government is to cancel the contracts for additional ferry services after Brexit with Brittany Ferries and DFDS, the Department for Transport said on 1 May. The government paid for £89m worth of additional capacity from the two operators to ease expected pressure on the port of Dover. However, it ...
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The High Court has thrown out a challenge brought by local councils, environmental groups and the London Mayor to plans Heathrow’s third runway. Their case had hinged on the argument that the government's National Policy Statement in support for the plan had not taken into account the effect of pollution, ...
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The port of Rotterdam is to set up a 60-hectare Food Hub at Calandkanaal, at the entrance to Maasvlakte. Construction on the ‘Kop van de Beer’ (Head of the Bear) site will start in July and it is envisaged that the first sites will be ready for occupation by the ...
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Freight forwarder Agility has signed a two-year logistics partnership agreement with Porsche Motorsports for the eight-weekend Porsche Carrera Cup Asia racing series. Agility Fairs & Events has been the official logistics partner for the event since 2016. Under the new partnership, Agility will handle the movement of all cars for ...
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International Warehousing and Transport (IWT) is to step up its intermodal rail freight service between Dublin Port and Ballina from seven to nine departures a week from mid May.
IWT started the service from Dublin to Ballina in the west of Ireland with two services a week in August 2009, mainly ...
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Managing director of Essex forwarder Barrington Freight Matt Everard and his cousin Russell Shearman are aiming for a place in the world speed record books this May. But not for them some super-powered sports or racing car but what they hope will the world’s fastest Tuk Tuk.
The Tuk Tuk, for ...
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Ports are important economic employment hubs in coastal towns and cities and the bedrock of the burgeoning “blue economy”, the newly-elected chair of the British Ports Association Martin Lawlor told the organisation’s annual lunch in London on 30 April.
Mr Lawlor, who is also chief executive at the Port of Blyth, ...
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