March 2021
Ports are being urged to plan and implement measures to adapt to climate change in a paper published by the British Ports Association and engineering consultancy HR Wallingford. Infrastructure such as quays and breakwaters could be vulnerable to a rise in sea level and, as they are often key to protecting coastal communities, there could be wider ramifications, say the authors.
Ports should consider building in allowances for a rise in ...
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The European Shippers’ Council says it is disappointed at the lack of action by the European Commission over unreliability and high cost of liner shipping services.
At a recent meeting of the Maritime Forum on 25 March, which included shippers and forwarders along with carriers, port operators, ship owners and Commission ...
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Logistics UK is warning that the clearance of so many ships at one time following the Ever Given incident could cause congestion at ports along the supply chain, with a resultant slowdown in port productivity. General manager for Public Policy Alex Veitch, said that with more than 300 ships stuck ...
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Counterfeiters have already targeted Covid 19 vaccines “multiple times” warns insurers, the TT Club. Managing director of loss prevention, Mike Yarwood, says that two organisations have recently been broken up. In one case more than 3,000 saline filled vials were being sold as authentic vaccines and seized in Chinese police ...
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Transaid has launched its Way of the Roses 2021 UK Cycle Challenge, laying down the gauntlet to all MAMILs (Middle-Aged Men in Lycra, or transport and logistics industry professionals as the transport charity prefers to call them) to gear up for the 170 miles from Morecambe in Lancashire to Bridlington ...
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The International Transport Workers’ Federation (ITF) has called for seafarers and aviation workers to be prioritised by governments in their Covid-19 vaccination programmes. It follow a joint UN statement supporting this position.
ITF says that transport workers and their families have been in the front lines of moving people and cargo ...
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The Royal Alfred Seafarers’ Society has planted a rose garden at its maritime care home in the Surrey town of Banstead, to celebrate the centenary of the seafarer charity Stella Maris (formerly the Apostleship of the Sea).
It features the Stella Maris rose, a Hybrid Tea rose cultivated by Harkness Roses ...
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Ship operators caught up in the Suez blockage should come directly to Gothenburg and unload containers bound for both Scandinavia and Europe there rather than get caught up in congestion in North-West Europe, suggest the port authority and terminal operator terminal operator APM.
Cargo can be transhipped to smaller feeder vessels ...
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Evergreen Line says that the Ever Given has been refloated at about 15:00 29 March local time (14.00 UK time). The vessel is leaving the grounding site with assistance of tugboats, in order for the Suez Canal to resume normal operation.
The chartered vessel, which was en route from the Far ...
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The two ports which made the successful Thames Freeport bid, London Gateway and Tilbury, say they have received more new enquiries from businesses looking to relocate to the site this month than at any point in the last decade. They have ranged from space for industrial processes, manufacturing and logistics ...
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