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The Port of Tilbury handled its largest ever vessel in late October when the MV Koutalianos arrived to collect 50,000 tonnes of barley for Saudi Arabia. Weighing in at 93,000 tonnes and 230 metres long, – the size of two football pitches laid end-to-end – she will carry the harvest from over 15,000 acres (6300 hectares) of UK farmland.
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Forth Ports has signed a memorandum of understanding with the Port of Zeebrugge to explore mutual opportunities to attract new container cargo.
Both ports have complementary assets both in current trade arrangements and geography. The agreement will initially focus on enhancing container cargo volumes at Port of Zeebrugge and London Container ...
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Tilbury-based The Logistics Terminal (TLT) says it has doubled its throughput in a year and now has an average of 160 containers a week passing through its hub. Aimed at companies looking to distribute goods in smaller quantities directly from a portcentric warehouse, TLT argues that it can reduce bottom-line ...
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P&O Ferries is to upgrade its Tilbury–Zeebrugge freight service with a new vessel, the 163 trailer-capacity Wilhelmine chartered from Cobelfret. The ship can also carry 12 drivers and will replace the 145 trailer capacity Norqueen from early January.
Wilhelmine is a new build, completed earlier this year, and will help to ...
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Rail freight operator operator Freightliner achieved a new daily throughput record of 481 containers handled in Tilbury. Freightliner has a market share of 22% at the port 16 daily services to and from eight UK destinations.
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A dock strike at Tilbury – the first in 23 years – looks set to continue. Workers at the Enterprise Distribution Centre (EDC) took strike action earlier this month after being balloted by their union, ITF affiliate Unite the Union in response to a new “follow the ship” contract, which stipulates ...
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Tilbury dockers are due to stage their first strike since 1989 on Monday 7 May in protest against new 'follow the ship’ contracts. This means that staff work when the ships are ready for unloading, and not to set shift patterns. The 45 employees of paper terminal, Enterprise Distribution Centre ...
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