April 2012 - RW Freight

Container Shipping Conference

The Annual Global Liner Shipping Conference took place in London on 17 April. The main themes of the conference were consolidation and globalisation. Shipp...
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Posted on April 30, 2012

Asia link for Gothenburg

A new shipping service between the Far East and Europe has added a call at Gothnburg, Sweden to its route. This is the second weekly service linking Gothen...
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Posted on April 29, 2012

Cool Logistics Fair

An international cold chain conference, Cool logistics Global 2012, will be held in Antwerp from 24 - 26 September. One of the main topics of discussion...
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Posted on April 28, 2012

China Exports to target BRICS

Analysts in China are advising exporters to concentrate more efforts on emerging markets such as Brazil or India. In the first quarter of 2012, exports f...
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Posted on April 27, 2012

Fragrant Exports

Yunnan, in south West China, is one of the major world suppliers of geranium oil, which is an essential ingredient for many perfumes. In 2010, exports from...
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Posted on April 26, 2012

Panama Freight expansion

The Panama canal is modernising its locks, to enable larger vessels to pass through. In conjunction with this development, many of the world's largest ...
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Posted on April 25, 2012

Freight for Ship Canal

The Manchester Ship Canal is being developed as a logistics hub, in order to minimise costs and Carbon emissions. So far, freight containers have been sh...
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Posted on April 24, 2012

Hyderabad Freight Ambitions

Hyderabad in India is aiming to become the main air freight hub for the country. Airlines are increasing their freighter services to and from Hyderabad, im...
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Posted on April 20, 2012

BIFA Freight Service Awards

In a couple of months entries will be invited for the 2012 BIFA Freight Service Awards; provisional categories for entries include air freight, European lo...
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Posted on April 19, 2012

Carbon Reduction for Freight

Last year Transport Minister Mike Penn, gave his unequivocal support to the Freight Transport Association’s (FTA) Logistics Carbon Reduction Schemes. Th...
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Posted on April 18, 2012

Brussels increases air freight

Results for the first quarter of 2012 show that Brussels airport increased its throughput of air freight by 3% over last year. The Chinese New Year holida...
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Posted on April 17, 2012

Stable demand for air freight

In spite of may gloomy predictions earlier in the year, the latest statistics from the International Air Transport Association show that demand for air arg...
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Posted on April 16, 2012

Freight ship carve up

The freight cargo ship Carrier, which went aground off the Welsh coast on 4 April, will be cut up on site. All the fuel has been successfully removed, an...
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Posted on April 15, 2012

Freight Transport Association condemns Chancellor

The Freight Transport Association has condemned George Osborne's refusal to forego a fuel duty increase in August. In a press release last month, the Ass...
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Event for Freight Vehicles

The Freight Transport Association will be represented at the Commercial Vehicle Show 2012, which takes place at the National Exhibition Centre in Birming...
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Posted on April 14, 2012

Freight theft bugs USA

Theft from freight vehicles in the USA is a major problem. It is becoming worse as the economy declines - the overall number of stolen freight shipment inc...
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Posted on April 13, 2012

Threats to Shipping Industry

Shipping lines are refusing to lay up ships in spite of over-capacity in the market. They have implemented freight increases, but there is no guarantee t...
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Posted on April 12, 2012

Export Licences for British Pork

The international manager of the organisation for the British pig industry was in China early in March to finalise details of the logistics of the pork tra...
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Posted on April 11, 2012

China big on pig imports

In 2011 imports of pig offal accounted for more than 65 pe cent of the total pig products imported in China. Demand for meet has been growing in China, a...
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Posted on April 10, 2012

Rail Freight Permission in Belgium

The freight subsidiary of Eurotunnel, Europorte, has been given permission to run on the Belgian rail network. The operator said that Belgium’s location...
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Posted on April 8, 2012

Fine for Shipping Line

The shipping line which owns the freight ship Rena, which foundered near New Zealand in October, has been charged with the discharge of harmful substance f...
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Posted on April 7, 2012

UK visit to Port of Rotterdam

The United Kingdom is the Port of Rotterdam's largest overseas trading partner. It provides more than 60 million tonnes of freight per year - more than...
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Posted on April 6, 2012

Universal Freight Shuttle for Mexico

A cross border freight shuttle planned for cargo between Mexico and the USA is planned to overcome the problem of maintaining security when crossing the bo...
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Posted on April 5, 2012

New Freight Forwarding Index

A new index published for the first time this week, suggests that forwarders expect ocean and air cargo to increase in volumes over the net six months.The ...
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Posted on April 4, 2012

New Logistics Park South of France

A new multi modal logistics park is planned for the port of Marseilles in Southern France. It will be developed over the next five years and will be situ...
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Posted on April 3, 2012

Air Freight companies fined

Several large air freight companies have been fined by the EU for price-fixing. Fourteen freight forwarders were fined a total of 169 million for operating...
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Posted on April 2, 2012

Freight industry condemns strikers

A strike by tanker drivers will apparently elicit little support from the rest of the freight industry. The Freight Transport Association viewed the deci...
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Posted on April 1, 2012

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