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The Port of London handled its largest ships ever in 2015 while cargo tonnage climbed to 45.4 million tonnes, up 2% on 2014. PLA chief executive, Robin Mortimer said the record breakers included container ship, UASC Barzan - the 400 metre ship called at London Gateway Port in September. Since August, the Port of Tilbury has welcomed over 20 calls from Grimaldi’s new-generation, larger capacity con-ro ships, operating on routes ...
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Forth Ports confirms that it has entered into an agreement to purchase 152 acres of land, including a further deep water jetty, close to its Port of Tilbury and is planning to invest at least £100m in infrastructure and facilities.
The land is part of the former Tilbury Power Station owned ...
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NileDutch is upgrading its Europe to West Africa container service into a-two-loop operation. The existing West Europe – West Africa Service, known as WEWA, will be upgraded to weekly sailings Operating from the north-west Continent and Portugal to Tanger, Pointe Noire, Luanda, Lobito,, Namibe and Abidjan.
At the same time a ...
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Highways England has chosen a tunnel between Tilbury and Gravesend – Option 'C' - as its preferred option for a new Lower Thames Crossing. It would provide a link between many of the south-east's major ports and the rest of the country, including Dover and the Channel Tunnel and Tilbury/London ...
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Maersk Line has switched the UK call of its Samba South America service from Tilbury to DP World London Gateway Port. The first call on the service will be made by the Maersk Lanco on 21 March.
The service includes calls at Santos, Paranagua, Itajal, Buenos Aires, Montevideo, Rio Grande, Santos, ...
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Niche shipping specialist, Streamlines - part of the SeaTrade group – has launched a new service between Tilbury and the Caribbean, Central America and Florida. The new Blue Steam service will operate weekly from February with the rotatio: Rotterdam-Tilbury-Le Havre-Fort de France (Martinique)-Pointe a Pitre (Guadeloupe)-Philipsburg (St Maartin), Moin (Costa ...
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Short Sea shipping specialists MacAndrews and OPDR – both subsidiaries of CMA CGM – are to join forces at Tilbury's London Container Terminal from 1 January. Between them, the two lines will offer nine calls per week with connections to and from Spain, Portugal, Sweden, Poland, Morocco and Canary Islands. ...
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Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Transport, Robert Goodwill took a tour of the port of Tilbury this week. Arriving by boat (how else?) from central London, he saw at first hand the major investments being made by owners Forth Ports, and its role in supporting nationally significant projects, from Crossrail ...
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Short Sea operators MacAndrews and OPDR have launched a new weekly liner service between Tilbury, North Europe and the Iberian Peninsula.
The new Portugal & South Spain service (POSS) calls at Tilbury, Dunkirk, Rotterdam, Leixoes, Setubal, Lisbon, Algeciras and Cartagena and is operated by three 700teu vessels. OPDR operates the ships ...
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CMA CGM has upgraded its service from Morocco to Europe for the citrus fruit and vegetable export season. OPDR, its subsidiary since 1 July will operate the CISS service from 7 November from Agadir to Tilbury and other European ports and the AGAX service from 15 October between Agadir, Casablanca ...
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