August 2019
Eurotunnel said its truck traffic in July was down 10% to 130,936 compared to July 2018, mainly due to the lack of recovery in the automotive market, and a slowdown in UK consumption. Since the beginning of the year, there has been a 5% reduction in truck traffic, to 940,000.
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Dachser has started construction of a new branch in Neumünster in the far north of Germany. The transit terminal for industrial goods and food will cost around €17.4 million and is expected to be completed by the third quarter of 2020. Around 30 employees will work in the new location.
The groundbreaking ...
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FedEx Express is encouraging its employees to donate unneeded child car seats to help reduce road casualties in Moldova under its ‘FedEx Cares’ programme. The number of children seriously traumatized by car crashes in the eastern European country rose by 158% in 2018, with a key cause said to be ...
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Suffolk-based Morrison Freight says a 27% growth in sales over the last 12 months is due to the preparations it has put in place to minimise the effects of Brexit on the company. The business has seen a surge in new customers and has started a recruitment drive. Over the ...
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APM Terminals Yucatán, operator of the Port of Progreso in southern Mexico, is to modernise its container terminal including a 20% expansion of yard capacity and two new reach stackers. The terminal has doubled its volumes from 80,000 to 140,000teu over the last two years and is expecting 20-35% further ...
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Civil engineering and building company, Britcon, has been appointed by Associated British Ports (ABP) to deliver the next phase of its new Grimsby Automotive Terminal. Britcon has recently completed phase 1a on the 100 acre former Tioxide site in Grimsby to provide a 10 acre vehicle import/export storage facility. Phase ...
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The British Ports Association has published a new joint paper with the Port of Rotterdam on digitalisation. The paper is part of the BPA Port Futures programme, a thought leadership programme where the BPA teams up with industry partners, innovators and experts.
Rotterdam’s director of digital business solutions, Joyce Bliek, said: ...
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Forth Ports and its partners Direct Rail Services and Eddie Stobart are to make permanent the the weekly train service between the ports of Tilbury and Grangemouth, following a successful trial. It said that two-way business had been encouraging allowing the service to operate regularly every weekend.
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Cargo handler Swissport is to extend its stay at SEGRO’s Heathrow Cargo after it signed a 10-year lease on a 104,000 sq ft warehouse unit on Shoreham Road. The agreement follows long-term commitments from Air Canada and Worldwide Flight Services which have both re-geared leases in 2019. The lease includes ...
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Europa Worldwide Group has recruited Scott Powell as its new seafreight operations manager for its Air & Sea division. He comes from a regional freight forwarder where he was responsible for managing a multi-modal team.
[caption id="attachment_27088" align="alignleft" width="300"] Picture: Edward Moss[/caption]
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