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Shanghai increases capacity

Shanghai is expanding with the completion of its new container terminal, Yangshan.  The new freight terminal opened in December 2007, and currently co...
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Posted on July 31, 2008

Freight across continents

It is now possible to move rail freight in a continuous journey from one continent to another in 15 days.  If all goes according to plan, the new dire...
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Hauliers’ Success?

As reported on 3 July, there have been a number of protests and lobbying actions by UK hauliers, asking the government to reconsider the rate of duty on di...
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Incoterms development

Incoterms are used in the freight industry to determine how the functions, costs and risks of an international transport movement are split between shipper...
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Freight shuns Tunnel

Although the Channel Tunnel was designed to carry about 10m tonnes of freight per year, shippers have proved reluctant to use it.   Most  lorries...
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Fuel prices hit French hauliers

The British freight industry is not alone in suffering from increases in fuel prices; many French haulage firms have gone bankrupt this year, in spite of t...
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Beijing Olympics – freight restrictions

If you are shipping to China, don't forget that there is now a whole range of restrictions on the movement of Dangerous Goods, as part of the security arra...
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Posted on July 15, 2008

Free market for Far East Shipping

Shippers have spent twenty years lobbying Brussels about the unfairness of price-fixing by shipping conferences.  Their persistence has finally paid o...
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Refrigerated freight – matching supply and demand?

Since the late 1990s there has been a huge increase in the freight volume of foods and pharmaceutical products requiring temperature-controlled equipment. ...
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Boulogne Connection

A new freight-carrying ferry service between Dover and Boulogne is being planned for next year.  This means that goods produced in South West France a...
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More freight for Tilbury

In contrast to all the gloomy economic predictions in the news today, the port of Tilbury has shown an increase in throughput for the first half of 2008. &...
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Posted on July 8, 2008

Hauliers lobby Parliament

Yesterday 220 lorries converged on the capital to register their protest at the high level of excise duty on diesel.  They say that this tax makes put...
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Posted on July 3, 2008

Tea time in Poland

Freight volumes to eastern European countries are increasing with the export of essentially British products like tea and bottled ale.  This increase ...
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Posted on July 1, 2008

Atlantic links for Kent

 Thamesport near Rochester is once again the port of call for three different transatlantic shipping services which have been calling at Southampton f...
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Good news for Chengdu

Chengdu was in the news in May as the capital of earthquake-struck Province Sichuan in Southwest China.  But the good news, is that Chengdu is to bene...
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