July 2020
PD Ports’ Port of Hartlepool has won a pipeline contract with Italian-owned global oilfield services company Saipem to service the Tolmount field, one of the largest undeveloped gas discoveries in the Southern North Sea.
Hartlepool will handle, temporarily store and load 26,000 tonnes of steel pipes over five-weeks before final vessel load-out to the field, 40 miles off the Yorkshire coast.
PD Ports won the contract thanks to Hartlepool’s port facilities and ...
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Dunkerque Port has again been awarded Port Environmental Review System (PERS) certification by the EcoPorts network. The latest certification, issued by the European Sea Ports Organisation praised in particular the Dunkerque’s redevelopment of brownfield sites and the manual of environmental recommendations for site set-up by new industrialists.
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Full-load road operator Continental Cargo is celebrating its second year since its acquisition by Europa Worldwide Group in 2018.
Established in 1973, CCC is one of the biggest players on the roll-on roll-off market between Europe and the UK, and operates a fleet of 270 trailers, with a 4000 m2 warehouse ...
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Tata Consultancy Services has deployed its TCS DynaPORT terminal operating system at Forth Ports’ new Tilbury2 unaccompanied freight ferry terminal. The platform is already implemented at Forth Ports’ lo lo container terminals at Tilbury and Grangemouth in Scotland. It streamlines order-to-invoice processes and supports vessel, rail, truck, barge, container, break-bulk, ...
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Emirates SkyCargo says it will operate scheduled cargo flights to 100 destinations in July. Cities added to the network include Glasgow, Accra, Algiers, Athens, Fort Lauderdale, Larnaca, Los Angeles, Male, Moscow, Phnom Penh, Rome, Santiago, Sialkot and Tunis.
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Rob Waterman has been appointed as chief executive of Containerships – CMA CGM GmbH based in Hamburg. He replaces Claude Lebel who is retiring. Waterman has been chief executive of CMA CGM (UK) Shipping since March 2013, based in Liverpool.
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Shipping line MSC’s Instant Quote function is now live for cargo shipments from North America to Europe and from Asia to Europe. Users can quickly fill out and receive quotes, choose from (and to) door, ramp and port and rapidly progress to booking.
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German forwarder Hellmann Worldwide Logistics has appointed Geodis as its land transport partner for France, ending its long-standing cooperation with Heppner. The two companies already cooperate in the UK. Last year, Hellmann opened its own sea- and airfreight branch near Paris. Heppner has meanwhile joined forces with Gebrüder Weiss, having ...
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June cargo volumes provided the first real indicators of structural recovery in the airfreight market says analyst CLIVE Data Services. PPE business faded but the industry seems to be slowly getting back up on its feet as volumes in the first four weeks climbed 6% versus the full four weeks ...
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DP World has completed assembly of the world's first container High Bay Store system (HBS) at Jebel Ali Port which stacks containers up to eleven high. BoxBay is a joint venture between the port operator and German industrial engineering specialist SMS Group.
Real life test operations are due to start before ...
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