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Associated British Ports is investing over £12m in its vehicle handling facilities in Southampton to create more than 5,700 new vehicle storage spaces. These include a five storey facility in the Eastern Docks capable of handling 3,200 vehicles and a dedicated inspection area. Work is due to start in May and complete in March 2016.
In the Western Docks, more than £3m is being invested in creating a 12-acre open air ...
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ABP Southampton says that the port is open for business and operations are unaffected by the grounding of the Hoegh Osaka on Saturday evening. The 41,000-tonne pure car and truck carrier was deliberately run onto sandbanks at Bramble Bank close to the Isle of Wight after the vessel developed a ...
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Associated British Ports' Port of Southampton says it is ready to handle the biggest ships in the world after completion of its £40million dredging project. The work ensures ships with a draught of up to 15.5m – the biggest container vessels currently in service – will be able to access ...
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DP World Southampton recently hosted four Hapag- Lloyd sister ships simultaneously on its deep-sea berths - the first time in its history that four vessels from the same line berthed at the same time.
Three were the new generation ultra large container ships with nominal capacity of more than 13,000teu. The ...
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DP World Southampton is to open all day on Sundays from 24 August to give cargo owners an extra day to collect cargo in the run-up to Christmas.
The container port will open its gates from 07.00 on Sundays (instead of 19.00) in preparation for the August bank holiday – which ...
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A new independent report says that Associated British Ports' (ABP) Port of Southampton contributes £990 million to the UK economy every year, including £714 million for the Solent region. Consultants Arup added that the port supports 14,730 jobs.
Investments of over £100 million in the past five years with a further ...
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Online intermodal brokers, FreightArranger has added new routes between Southampton and Manchester, and Southampton and Leeds. The trains run on all working days, with afternoon loading cut-offs allowing next-day deliveries and can accept high cube (9' 6" high) ISO containers and swapbodies up to 2.5 metres wide. There are opportunities ...
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CSAV – which recently announced a merger with Hapag Lloyd – has expanded its service from North Europe to the East Coast of North America and Gulf of Mexico with a second weekly sling, which calls in Southampton. The port rotation is Antwerp - Bremerhaven - Southampton - Charleston - Port ...
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NYK Group Europe has won a major contract to move Jaguar Land Rover vehicles on its ro ro ships from Southampton to the Port Hueneme on the US West Coast.
NYK will operate a minimum of two sailings per month on this trade lane, to help the car maker satisfy booming ...
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The G6 Alliance (APL, Hapag-Lloyd, Hyundai, MOL, NYK and OOCL) has released details of port rotations for its proposed services on the Transatlantic and Asia-North America West Coast routes, announced in early December last year. Subject to the completion of regulatory review process, the 17 services are scheduled to start ...
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