November 2022
Decarbonising the world's busiest maritime corridor will deliver a “seismic boost” to the UK's recently announced green shipping ambitions, Port of Dover chief commercial officer Christian Pryce told a panel at the COP27 global environmental summit on 18 November.He told a panel of governmental and industry maritime experts: “One year on from the Clydebank Declaration, in which the UK and 23 other states set out their ambition to collaborate on ...
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Austrian-owned forwarder Gebrüder Weiss is expanding its Tbilisi location in Georgia for the second time since 2019 to offer more transshipment and office space. The location is a central hub for goodds moving between Europe and Central Asia, and is also becoming increasingly important as a logistics centre for the ...
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The Port of London Authority has acquired Masthouse Terrace Pier on the Isle of Dogs in East London with a view to increasing light freight on the river. With good connections to the nearby Canary Wharf office area it plans to make it the first in the capital with space ...
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Maersk has opened a 14,000sq m warehouse for electric car batteries at Teplice in the north of the Czech Republic. It has a full range of safety features including thermal monitoring cameras and in-rack sprinklers and is divided into four independent, fire-resistant compartments. Batteries can be delivered by rail from ...
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UK-based cargo airline CargoLogicAir has gone into administration. It follows the imposition of sanctions on Russian airlines imposed in the wake of the invasion Ukrain, despite the fact that its owner, Alexey Isaikin, is a Cypriot citizen.
He was however earlier involved with Russian all-cargo carrier Volga-Dnepr Group, operator of the ...
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Kale Logistics Solutions has signed a deal with Dagang NeXchange Berhad to introduce an airport cargo community system at Kuala Lumpur International Airport. It will be a neutral and open platform, enabling information exchange between public and private stakeholders and is planned to be integrated with other community systems such ...
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Egypt’s Suez Canal Container Terminal is to be expanded with a new 955 metre berth and 510,000sq m of additional container yard under a deal signed between the Suez Canal Economic Zone and APMT. The current berth length of the 4m TEU a year terminal is 2,400m and yard capacity ...
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Engineers from Associated British Ports’ Immingham team have completed factory acceptance testing of three new mobile harbour cranes.
The Liebherr 420s, which cost £9.7 million with an additional £500,000 for Nemag grabs, will be arriving later in November from Rostock in northern Germany.
They use a hybrid system which comprises of ...
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Bertelsmann-owned Arvato Supply Chain Solutions has opened its first warehouse in Australia at Villawood, Greater Sydney. The 4,000sq m multi-client building has a capacity of over 3,000 pallet spaces and meets the highest Tapa A security level. Solar panels are installed on the roof and it is equipped with LED ...
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Booking shipper owned containers (SOCs) can still be challenging, according to a survey by Container xChange. The research, carried out in partnership with Copenhagen Business School, covered 137 freight forwarders and NVOCCs and found that over 80% still use email and phone to get quotations and place slot bookings.
Container xChange ...
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