December 2020
AP Moller-Maersk and Duisport are to build and operate a new sales and logistics centre at the German inland harbour. Maersk will take on an area of over 100,000sq m on the Logport VI site, creating over 350 new jobs. A trimodal logistics facility including a container terminal, is being constructed on the almost 43-hectare site with a 500-meter-long quay.
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Nottingham-based forwarder Baxter Freight has signed a partnership with European neutral provider Gerlach Customs Services for customs clearance after the Brexit transition period ends. It grants Baxter Freight’s customers access to customs support and consultancy from 750 experts across the continent.
Baxter Freight also becomes the UK sales representative for Gerlach, ...
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Logistics company Imperial is continuing its long tradition of Christmas donations, with three more charities receiving financial gifts this year.
Its Dutch business is to donate €2,500 to the Villa Pardoes project, which enables families who look after a seriously ill child to spend a relaxing week‘s holiday at a holiday ...
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Doncaster Sheffield Airport current aviation development director, Chris Harcombe, is to be promoted to managing director in the New Year.
He has successfully led the development of aviation activity at the Peel Group-owned freight-friendly airport over many years, including passenger, cargo and general and business aviation activities. He will be responsible ...
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Associated British Ports (ABP) turned its Swansea Harbour office into Santa’s Grotto, providing safe space to store presents for the 2020 ‘Mr X Christmas Appeal’.
For more than 60 years, Mr X has collected and distributed thousands of presents for underprivileged children in South Wales, distributed by volunteers across Cardiff, Swansea, ...
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The British Retail Consortium and the Food and Drink Federation are calling for an urgent parliamentary enquiry into the delays that have hit UK deepsea ports in the last few months.
In a letter to chair of the Commons Transport Select Committee, Lilian Greenwood MP, and chair of the Commons International ...
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The UK government is urging traders moving goods from Great Britain to Northern Ireland to consider whether they need to sign up to a new UK Trader Scheme (UKTS) to ensure that they do not pay tariffs from 1 January.
Businesses can now apply for a UKTS authorisation, allowing them to ...
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The UK and US have signed a customs cooperation agreement to handle trade after the UK exit’s the EU on 31 December. The Customs Mutual Assistance Agreement will allow customs authorities to continue to cooperate, including sharing data, to tackle customs fraud and provides the legal underpinning for schemes to ...
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Russian all-cargo airline Volga-Dnepr Group has added its first Boeing 777F to its fleet. The freighter, which has been recently certified in Russia, will be part of fleet of its AirBridgeCargo’s (ABC) arm and will bedeployed on Trans-Siberian route. It is the largest twin-engine freighter with up to 106 tonnes ...
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Timescales have become extremely challenging in the Government’s Port Infrastructure Fund allocations, warns the British Ports Association, adding that more funding is be needed to ensure adequate border infrastructure is ready in time.
With many bids underfunded due to a high demand, some ports now face a choice of whether to ...
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