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Largest UK logistics company Wincanton is to build a 2.5-acre container haulage base at DP World London Gateway. It will be operational from early 2018.
The site will provide truck parking and office facilities housing an on-site operations team.
Wincanton managing director for industrial and transport, Chris Fenton, said: “We’ve been moving customer containers in and out of DP World London Gateway since it opened, and have seen an increase in our ...
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DP World London Gateway Port is claiming a clean sweep of all the UK’s direct services to Australia after CMA-CGM announced that its NEMO (North European Mediterranean Oceania) and Hapag-Lloyd’s EAX (Europe, Australia Express) combined service will begin calling in early January.
The service will also provide direct links between Singapore, ...
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MSC's Australia Express is now providing direct calls between London Gateway and Sydney, offering the fastest direct service between Australia and the UK and North West Continent. The service also calls at Melbourne, Adelaide, Fremantle, Singapore and Colombo.
MSC has also added the Spanish North African enclave of Ceuta as a ...
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DP World has confirmed that its new London Gateway will move forward with a third berth. It will add a further 400 metres of quay length with a dredged depth of 17 meters alongside, capable of handling the largest container ships afloat.
Contracts have been awarded to VolkerFitzpatrick for civil and ...
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Penny Mordaunt MP, Minister for the Thames Gateway development area visited DP World London Gateway on 8 January. Ms Mordaunt and leaders from the Thames Gateway South Essex Partnership (TGSEP) were shown the high-tech facilities in action and given an update on the project by Charles Meaby, head of support ...
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London Gateway handled its largest ever ship on 13 September when the 10,000teu Zim Rotterdam deviated from its scheduled call in Felixstowe to have essential repair work following last month's fire in the Red Sea. As a result of an unplanned delay, the DP World-owned port agreed to accommodate the ...
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Uniserve managing director, Iain Liddell said that Uniserve has not concluded any formal agreements with DP World, despite being the target of protests by the United union over union recognition. (See: 'Unite targets Uniserve in London Gateway protest' below.)
Activists from the union staged a protest at Uniserve's Tilbury depot on ...
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Unite activists were due to stage a protest at Uniserve's Tilbury depot on 22 August in its continuing dispute with the nearby DP World London Gateway port over union recognition. The Uniserve site was chose, says the union, because it has confirmed that it plans to set up operations at ...
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London Mayor Boris Johnson followed up his April trip to see DP World's Dubai facilities with a trip to the new London Gateway port on 30 July. He met DP World London Gateway vice chairman Jamal Majid Bin Thaniah and London Gateway CEO, Simon Moore.
The Mayor said: “London is set ...
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Unite has repeated its call to DP World's new London Gateway port to recognise the trade union, warning that it would otherwise mount a campaign “to expose anti-union practices”.
Unite general secretary Len McCluskey urged the port’s owners, Dubai-based DP World to deliver “basic labour rights for workers”. Unite believes that ...
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