July 2022
The Port of Dover says it is “deeply frustrated” at the “woefully inadequate” resource at the French border which has led to long queues on the approaches to the cross-Channel gateway.
The Port was reported by the BBC to have declared a critical incident as cars and trucks queued for five hour to reach the ferry terminal on some of the hottest days of the year so far.
Dover said on 22 ...
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Port Everglades exceeded its record May and June cargo volumes with new linrer services from India, Turkey and Greece.
Unlike the downturn typically seen at the end of the melon shipping season, there was a spike in May and June thanks to new MSC services from South Asia and the Mediterranean, ...
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Pharmaceutical temperature-controlled specialist Tower Cold Chain has secured a £6.75million from Investec bank, following an initial injection of £6million into the business two years ago.
As well as manufacturing more stock and expanding into new hubs to fuel rising demand, Tower will also invest in digitalisation and implement the latest digital ...
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Hutchison Ports Port of Felixstowe has launched a new customer information platform, OCEAN (Online Container Enquiry Analytics Notifications). It allows port users to track up to 200 containers simultaneously and can give estimated and actual vessel arrival times and when containers are landed, cleared for collection, booked to road or ...
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Marks and Spencer Group is to acquire its long term food distribution partner Gist from BOC Group subsidiary, Storeshield. M&S will acquire the entire share capital of Gist for an initial £145m in cash with a further £85m plus interest from the proceeds of the intended onward disposal of freehold ...
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Transport Secretary Grant Shapps has promised an additional hourly freight slot on the Transpennine rail route as part of an upgrade package. The Government has announced £950 million for next phase of TransPennine Route Upgrades, which will include electrification, new signalling and doubling tracks from two to four between Huddersfield ...
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OOCL is switching to electronic bills of lading, powered by digital solutions provider IQAX Limited, and built on the Global Shipping Business Network blockchain platform. The eBL solution not only offers issuance of online eBLs, but also enables different parties such as shippers, cargo owners, forwarders and banks to manage ...
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Turkish Airlines and Vietnam Airlines signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) at the Farnborough International Airshow to strengthen bilateral cooperation, including cargo. The two carriers aid they would cooperate more closely in cargo transport through a codeshare partnership, which is expected to take effect in 2023. In the future, the ...
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Indian-owned logistics IT firm Kale Logistics Solutions has extended its partnership with Frankfurt-based air cargo services provider CHI Aviation Handling for five years.
CHI uses Kale’s Galaxy management system to digitise cargo handling.
Currently, over 85 airports in Europe, the US, Middle East, Africa, and India use Galaxy to manage their air ...
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Maritime Transport has launched a rail service between Tilbury2 ro ro terminal near London and Manchester’s Trafford Park Euroterminal, in partnership with P&O Ferries, which operates freight only ferries to and from Zeebrugge.
The DB Cargo-operated train runs five days per week from Monday to Friday and can carry 45' pallet-wide, ...
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