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Pentalver inks contract on permanent London Gateway depot

Pentalver is to develop a permanent depot at DP World London Gateway. The container service operator has been providing empty storage, dry repair and reefer services from temporary premises since April 2014 but will now build a permanent facility, to be built in two phases. Pentalver will operate out of a purpose-built facility on a five-acre site, and the second phase will expand the facility to nine acres within five years. When ... [+]

London Gateway gains West Africa link

CMA CGM is reconfiguring its Europe and Mediterranean to West Africa services into two separate routes, including one calling at London Gateway from 22 January. It will improve reliability and London Gateway will be linked to strategic ports in Nigeria, Ghana, Ivory Coast and Senegal, it says. The Euraf 1 service ... [+]

Another gain for London Gateway

Mediterranean Shipping Company (MSC) is to switch its South Africa to UK/Northwest Europe service from Felixstowe to London Gateway from December. The first MSC vessel to call into DP World London Gateway on the new rotation will be the MSC Rita, which is due to arrive on 7 December. The Europe/South ... [+]

Record-breaker

DP World London Gateway port handled the largest ship ever to enter the Thames in the early hours of Sunday 19 October. The 397-metre-long, 56-metre-wide Edith Maersk has a draught of 16 metres and can carry up to 15,500teu.   [+]

CSAV to offer London Gateway-India link

Chilean based shipping line CSAV – which recently announced a merger with Hapag Lloyd – is replacing its current three-sling Imex service between Dubai, India and Europe with a single-sling service, calling in London Gateway on the eastbound leg. The new service will start at the beginning of October and ... [+]

New ops director for London Gateway

Cosmin Carstea has been appointed operations director at P World London Gateway. Born in Romania, he first worked for DP World at the Port of Constanta and three years ago joined the senior global operations team at head office in Dubai. London Gateway is the fourth ‘newbuild’ port project he has ... [+]

London Gateway breaks ground on common user site

London Gateway officially kicked off the construction of its Common User Facility (CUF) on 15 July. The 386,000sq ft multipurpose specialist cargo handling centre will offer shared warehousing and transportation, materials handling equipment and labour with 24/7 cross-docking, storage, distribution and multi-user ‘pay-as-you-go’ value added logistics services. DP World London Gateway ... [+]

FreightArranger adds London Gateway options

The FreightArranger online booking service is now offering routes between London Gateway and Manchester, Daventry and Leeds. The system already provides trains between Purfleet and Daventry, and from Southampton for forwarders who are moving containers to and from the ports. FreightArranger will organise for goods to be taken from London ... [+]

West Africa route for London Gateway

DP World London Gateway now has a service to West Africa. A joint Hapag-Lloyd and MOL service, new to the UK, is due to start with the call of the Frisia Luebeck on 22 July. The port rotation is Antwerp, Hamburg, DP World London Gateway, Algeciras, Dakar, Lagos / Apapa, ... [+]

London Gateway starts work on new site but loses M&S development

DP World has awarded Buckingham Group the contract to build the Common User Facility at London Gateway Logistics Park. With ground preparation and infrastructure development complete, Buckingham Group is now mobilising to start construction, with the new logistics centre planned for completion in early 2015. The 375,000sq ft centre will ... [+]

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