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New Port for Stockholm Sweden

In December 2009 the Nacka District Court for the Environment ruled against plans for a new freight container terminal and logistics complex at Norvikudden...
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Posted on February 24, 2011

South Africa Freight Strike over

The strike by freight truck drivers in South Africa has finally come to an end after a spate of injuries and supplies crises.  The logistics industry ...
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Elbe river deepening

The Transport Minister of Germany has given his support to a project to deepen the river Elbe to allow freight ships to enter and leave Hamburg at any stat...
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Shanghai top container shipping port

Last year Shanghai became the world's biggest container shipping port by volume, taking over from Singapore.  Hong Kong remained in third place, but t...
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Freight still flows through Suez

Although internet services were suspended in Egypt, and there are still fears of looting, freight vessels and bulk tankers are still passing freely through...
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Posted on February 22, 2011

German Air Freight Security

Over 2.6 million tonnes of freight pass through Germany's five largest airports every year, most of which is transported by passenger aircraft.  In No...
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Finland Imports grow

The trade surplus for Finland fell last year over the previous year, in spite of healthy growth in exports.  The main reason was an increase in import...
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Posted on February 15, 2011

Freight Strikes in South Africa

The four road freight unions in South Africa are striking in support of a 20% pay increase over the next two years.  The action has turned violent, wi...
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Freight Train derailment in Sweden

A freight train derailment in Sweden is causing disruption of services and delay in delivery of cargo.  The train was travellng from Vaennaes northeas...
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Posted on February 10, 2011

Tunnel Rail Freight

Last year, Eurotunnel invested further in its rail freight capacity by aquiring the third largest railfreight operator in the UK.  This now gives an o...
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Multimodal 2011

Multimodal is the UK and Ireland's only freight and logistics exhibition and is expected to be bigger and better than ever this year.  The exhibition ...
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Logistics Exhibition in China

The Ministry of Transport of China is organising a Logistics Fair in Shenzhen from 12 - 14th October.  This gives a unique opportunity for logistics s...
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Freight Train Crashes in Germany

A fatal accident happened in Germany on Saturday when a freight train collided with a passenger train, leaving the driver and nine passengers dead.  T...
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Posted on February 3, 2011

Optimism improves in freight sector

Freight forwarders are looking forward cautiously to 2011, according to Danske Bank's European Freight Forwarding Index. Market performance in January was ...
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Egypt Conflict affecting Supply Chain

The civil unrest, protest and demonstrations are disrupting the supply chain, making life difficult for freight and logistics suppliers. As one of the worl...
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