June 2019
BIFA says it is seeing massive interest for its new online customs declaration training. The 11-module module course includes export and import processes, entry completion rules, Customs Procedure Codes (CPCs) and Customs Simplified Procedures. BIFA says it should not take more than around five hours to complete.
Robert Keen, BIFA director general said: “Issues surrounding Customs declarations are in the spotlight at present and we perceived the need for a focused ...
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Stena Line is to relocate the Belfast terminal for its Heysham Service to Albert Dock/Ballast Quay for about six months from Friday 14 June to allow preparation work for its new E-Flexer ships to take place. (See map).
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ABP South Wales is used to handling steel, grains and containers - but bees? Port manager Callum Couper recently took a call asking if his team would like to recover an errant swarm that had settled on a bench at Cardiff Bay Barrage.
However, it wasn’t quite so left-field as it ...
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The port of Dunkerque has introduced a new container rail service to and from the eastern city of Metz. It will initially operate a weekly round trip but plans to quickly this to two round trips per week to provide greater flexibility. Traction provider FRET SNCF has already allocated resources ...
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Dover forwarder John Shirley Ltd has joined forces with anti-slavery charity Unseen, women’s rights group Canterbury Soroptimists and the United Nations in a campaign to raise awareness of modern slavery and human trafficking in the UK and Europe.
Stickers plastered on around 200 freight vehicles are urging anyone who suspects human ...
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CEVA Logistics, recently taken over by CMA CGM, has appointed Criss Edwards as senior vice president automotive and industrial inbound logistics. He is based at the new CEVA Logistics operations centre in Marseilles, France and joins from XPO Logistics where he was most recently senior vice president of operations. CEVA ...
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Hapag Lloyd unveiled its new ‘LIVE’ real-time GPS location, temperature information and power-off alert system at the Transport Logistic show in Munich on 4 June. The line will eventually equip its entire 100,000-strong reefer fleet with the system.
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UK offshore islands and Ireland specialist Paul Davis Freight Services has appointed Andy Jehan as chief executive. He has worked for Jersey Post for 37 years, latterly as operations director and also served as chairman of Portsmouth-based European logistics company, Fraser Freight. He is also currently non-executive chairman of Jersey ...
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Three quarters of a century on from D-Day on 6 June 1944, ABP is reflecting on the incredible courage and sacrifice made when Allied forces landed on the Normandy coast - and the part that many of its ports played in those momentous events.
"Many of our ports in ABP played ...
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The Container Owners Association (COA)'s telematics/track trace work group is to provide an open standard (at the application layer level) to permit interoperability of telematics device data from solution providers in the maritime shipping sector.
The open standard will start with refrigerated units but will be expanded to cover all container ...
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