June 2019
Bristol Port has completed a a £9 million upgrade of its container terminals, including two new gantry cranes. Bristol operates two facilities - Portbury handles larger vessels including the weekly MSC feeder from Antwerp while Avonmouth serves smaller vessels needing rapid turnaround time for smaller volumes.
Carriers calling at the port include MSC, DFDS Suardiaz Line and Containerships (both providing weekly services to and from Bilbao; Grimaldi Lines (weekly services to ...
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BG Freight Line, in partnership with Maersk, is starting a new weekly Waterford-Rotterdam feeder service. It is expected to appeal especially to Irish agri-food exporters and also to customers shipping containers to/from Africa, Asia and the Americas via Rotterdam.
Port of Waterford chief executive, Frank Ronan, said: “Reflecting Ireland’s economic growth, ...
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The Scottish Government is to offer Glasgow Prestwick Airport and return it to the private sector.
The airport, to the south-west of Glasgow, was taken into public ownership in November 2013. It handles regular all-cargo aircraft flights and also houses a Border Inspection Post for large animals.
Cabinet Secretary for Transport, Infrastructure ...
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DP World has started work on a new 231,000sq ft warehouse at its London Gateway Logistics Park.
LG231 on the north of the 9.25million sq ft Logistics Park, will be ready for occupation in December. It will comprise 218,945sq ft of warehouse space and 11,970 sq ft of offices with space ...
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Rugby legend Phil Bennett will be the star guest at this year’s Freight Transport Association Welsh Logistics Lunch, at the Cardiff Marriott Hotel on 29 November. The former Welsh international captain was part of the all-conquering British Lions team of 1974, which toured South Africa undefeated – something no other ...
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The Port of Southampton and PortMiami signed a sister port agreement during a visit by officials from the Florida port and Miami-Dade County.
The deal was signed by PortMiami director, Juan Kuryla, Miami-Dade County mayor Carlos Gimenez and Southampton director Alastair Welch.
During the visit, a city twinning agreement was also signed ...
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The ports of Cork and Amsterdam International are to collaborate and share their expertise and experience to promote trade. The agreement, signed on 14 June in the presence of His Majesty Willem-Alexander and Her Majesty Máxima, and the Minister of Foreign Trade and Development Cooperation, Sigrid Kaag as part of ...
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Pan-European multimodal service provider Samskip says experience gained up to the original Brexit day on 31 March has fully prepared it for a North Sea container surge ahead of October’s revised deadline
The multimodal transport operator expects UK exporters and importers to start switching away from trailers and towards containers very ...
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Forth Ports is offering its employees 100 HAVwear watches which monitor the vibration experienced by power tool users to reduce the risk of developing the incurable Hand Arm Vibration Syndrome (HAVS), or Vibration White Finger, one of the most common industrial diseases in the UK. Reactec also provides a Cloud-based ...
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Brussels Airport director of cargo and logistics Steven Polmans (left) is to take over as chairman of The International Air Cargo Association (TIACA), with Astral Aviation founder Sanjeev Gadhia (right) as vice chairman. Polmans, who has served as TIACA vice chairman for two years, will replace Sebastiaan Scholte who will ...
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