March 2024
TT Club is once again sponsoring the Transported Asset Protection Association (TAPA)’s Europe, Middle East and Africa Region Young Supply Chain Resilience Professional of the Year Award in 2024.
To enter, applicants must produce a 1,500-word submission on an innovative cargo security or supply chain resilience initiative they have developed or contributed to significantly.
Entries must be submitted by 19 April and the winner will be notified by 1 May so they ...
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Stena Line has relaunched the Stena Britannica and Stena Hollandica on its Harwich-Hook of Holland route after a refit programme that took just 18 days for each ferry, by a 36-strong team.
The operator says that a new type of paint on the vessels’ underwater hulls will save around 780,000 litres ...
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Freeport East says a new report from the Offshore Renewable Energy Catapult (ORE Catapult) will help accelerate upgrades to UK port infrastructure to support commercial-scale floating offshore wind.
The report focuses on port infrastructure issues and proposes ways to increase Government funding.
Offshore wind is critical to achieving the UK Government’s Net ...
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Supply chain provider FourKites has promoted Priya Rajagopalan to president of product, technology and operations. She will lead FourKites’ product, engineering and customer functions, having joined the company seven years ago as chief product officer.
Meanwhile, Ron Richardson returns to FourKites as chief revenue officer, where he will lead Sales, partners ...
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Davies Turner has welcomed a commitment by the UK and Türkiye (Turkey) to negotiate a new Free Trade Agreement.
A tariff-free arrangement with the EU, which had signed a customs union with Türkiye, was rolled over after Brexit but this covered only trade in good, not areas such as services, digital ...
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LeShuttle Freight carried its 35 millionth truck under the Channel on 13 March. Since 1994, more than 750 million tonnes of goods have been transported via the tunnel aboard one of the 15 truck shuttle trains which carry 25% of the goods exchanged between the UK and continental Europe.
The 35 ...
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DHL Supply Chain has opened a multi-user facility in Coventry, powered entirely by renewable electricity and the first operationally carbon neutral new build site for the company in the UK. The building has been certified as BREEAM ‘Outstanding’, with an air source heat pump which provides all the warehouse and ...
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US government plans for zero emissions ground transportation are “merely a vision on paper”, says executive director of the Airforwarders Association, Brandon Fried.
Reacting to the launch of the National Zero-Emission Freight Corridor Strategy in mid-March, Fried - who has extensively lobbied the Biden Administration for increased funding to fix America’s ...
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Council-owned Portsmouth International Port made a profit of £8m in the 23/24 financial year. Results, published on 14 March, show that ferry passengers are bouncing back , with numbers reaching 95% of 2019 records but freight from the EU is 20% down in comparison to four years ago. Trade from ...
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The World Shipping Council (WSC) is has chosen the National Cargo Bureau (NCB) as the independent provider for the Cargo Safety Program digital platform that it is developing. The platform is intended to counter misdeclared or undeclared dangerous goods, which have led to an alarming increase in ship fires.
NCB is ...
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