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DP World London Gateway has appointed Dean Hawkridge as head of commercial role at its Logistics Park. He was most recently group director of product supply for builders’ merchant Travis Perkins and prior to that head of international supply chain at DIY retailer B&Q and has also worked in similar roles for Woolworths, Poundstretcher and Burton, in a career spanning almost 30 years.
Work is proceeding on the UPS parcel sorting ...
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DP World London Gateway is about to take delivery of two more of the UK’s most technically advanced quay cranes were brought up the River Thames on 15 June. The Chinese-built monsters are for the container port’s third berth, due to open later this year.
When installed they will match DP ...
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DP World has won a 50 year concession to develop a $1 billion greenfield multi-purpose port project at Posorja, Ecuador, 65km from the country’s main commercial city of Guayaquil. The $500 million phase 1 will include dredging a new access channel, a 20km access road and a 400 metre berth ...
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DP World officially opened Turkey’s newest port at Yarimca, Izmit Bay for business on 14 May. The ceremony was attended by President Erdoğan by teleconference in the presence of senior government officials and executives of DP World. One of the biggest in the country, the new terminal can handle up ...
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Port operator DP World has become the first sponsor of the Global version of the popular logistics board game, Business on the Move.
The initial launch of the UK version of Business on the Move was backed by 50 corporate sponsors enabling a production run of 2,800 copies of the ...
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Strainstall, which recently unveiled a system for weighing containers in line with new SOLAS verified gross mass regulation which come into force on 1 July, has secured an order for its system from DP World Southampton, the first major commitment by a global container terminal. DP World Southampton chief executive, ...
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Global port operator DP World signed up to the ’United for Wildlife’ Taskforce at a ceremony at Buckingham Palace on 16 March in the presence of the Duke of Cambridge.
United for Wildlife is described as “an unprecedented collaboration bringing together the world’s foremost wildlife charities” and has been convened by ...
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The English Commercial Court has thrown out a case brought by the Djibouti government against its former Port and Freezone Authority chairman Abdourahman Boreh alleging improper practice in awarding an operating concession to DP World. In a statement, the global port operator said: “We have invested significantly in Djibouti over ...
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DP World is to set up a new UK management structure following its acquisition of the entire container operation in Southampton from ABP on 2 November.
From 1 April, DP World Southampton managing director Chris Lewis (no relation to FBJ's editor) becomes DP World’s managing director for the UK reporting into ...
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Hot on the heels of Felixstowe's announcement last week, port operator DP World says it is investing in container weighing services at its UK facilities ahead of the introduction of new SOLAS (Safety of Life at Sea) regulations on 1 July
Like Felixstowe, DP World – which operates the container terminal ...
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