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The Port of Tilbury has signed a new five-year agreement with Cefetra to handle animal feed imports for the East Anglian area. It will bring thousands of tonnes of cargo a year. Owners Forth Ports will also provide a dedicated 60,000-tonne quayside storage facility. Cefetra, which trades over 3 million tonnes in the UK and Ireland, is a major customer of Forth Ports making regular use of the other strategically ...
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Following the announcement on 25 November that Travis Perkins is to be the launch customer for its new London Distribution Park, the Port of Tilbury signed a new agreement with Grafton Group subsidiary L&G Forest Products for a 70,000sq.ft. timber hub on 27 November. The Grafton Group owns the Buildbase ...
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Treasury secretary Priti Patel (pictured, driving JCB) officially launched construction of the Port of Tilbury's new London Distribution Park on 25 November. At the turf-cutting ceremony, Perry Glading, chief operating officer at Forth Ports-owned Tilbury also revealed that builders' merchant Travis Perkins would be the Park's first tenants, and are ...
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WEC Lines is adding a second Leixões call on its Portugal - UK service, before calling at Tilbury as part of its ‘SPM2’ rotation. It will reduce the current eight day transit time in half. The full rotation is Tilbury, Antwerp, Vigo, Leixões, Sines, Lisbon, Leixões and Tilbury.
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OPDR Maroc, the new daughter company of Schulte Group short-sea specialist OPDR Group, has launched a new service between Agadir, Tilbury and the North Continent. The Argan Express will call Agadir every Thursday and will directly serve ports in Spain (one transit day), then Tilbury England (five days) and Rotterdam. ...
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The port of Tilbury is taking two derelict cranes at Battersea Power Station into its safekeeping pending their restoration as part of a scheme to generate the area. The cranes – built in the 1950s and not used since 1983 – have been removed so that the power station regeneration ...
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Finnlines is operating a new weekly ro ro service between Tilbury, Helsinki and St Petersburg, reviving a service that last operated in 2006. Tilbury's senior asset manager, Paul Dale, said: “As the largest paper handling port in the UK, Finnlines will benefit from Tilbury’s expertise and connectivity in the South ...
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Essex Police and Home Office officials are continuing with their investigations into suspected people-trafficking following the discovery of 35 people – all Afghan Sikhs - in a container at the Port of Tilbury at the weekend, one of whom had died en route. The 31 men, women and children were ...
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Forth Ports' Port of Tilbury has extended its contract for the P&O Ferries service. The ferry operator has reached agreement with Bore owners of Norsky and Norstream, to charter the ships after the current chartering arrangements expire in December 2014 and the Tilbury contract has also been extended.
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SCS Multiport is to add a twice-weekly call in Zeebrugge to its existing service between Amsterdam and Tilbury. It will cater for Far East transhipment and continental traffic. The new regular service, which begins on 3 August, follows a strategic agreement between the ports to offer Far East deep sea ...
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