March 2021
Rail Operations UK’s Orion logistics arm is planning to launch a trial high speed train service from the West Midlands to Central Scotland in late April or May. Orion managing director Paul Orchard said that commercial services are expected to start in July.
Orion had originally announced that it would launch a trial freight service from London Gateway to London Liverpool Street station in April or May this year, using Class ...
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Europa Worldwide Group’s early careers talent manager, Lana Jay is speaking to schools across the country encouraging pupils to consider it as a career choice, in support of National Careers Week (1-5 March).
Europa also recently launched a series of videos on ‘choosing a career in logistics’ which were presented to ...
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Hapag-Lloyd has opened an office in Mombasa, Kenya and is also planning one in the capital, Nairobi. It will be headed by country manager Prashant Sindhwani. The line operates a China Kenya Express Service to major ports in Asia, such as Singapore and Shanghai and the East Africa Service to ...
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Northern Ireland's agriculture minister Gordon Lyons has ordered officials to stop work on new permanent border control posts for food and agricultural goods and has called for a halt to staff recruitment, the BBC reports.
Existing temporary BCPs will continue to operate.
Stormont ministers have requested an emergency meeting of the NI ...
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DHL Global Forwarding’s Industrial Projects arm is moving 676 rail passenger coaches from Hungary to Egypt over the next 32 months. The 48-tonne, 24.5 metre long coaches, made by Dunakeszi Járműjavító, are transported by rail to the port of Koper, Slovenia for the sea voyage by chartered vessel onto the ...
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'Shore-power' – powering vessels in port by green electricity in place of on-board diesel generators – is essential to reduce pollution but is held back in the UK by high taxes and a lack of Government support, says a new report by Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research for the ...
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