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Container Terminal for Rome

It is planned to replace the existing terminal at Civitavecchia in Rome with a new one in 2013. The current port only hosts one mainline container freight ...
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Posted on July 31, 2013

New Cargo Terminal at Grimsby

A new cargo terminal at Grimsby has received its first ship.  The terminal is designed for auto freight, and has capacity to admit vessels carrying up to ...
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Posted on July 30, 2013

Containers change Gauges

Freight containers on the new rail service from China to Germany will have to be transferred by crane to different guages twice.  The route goes via Kazak...
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Posted on July 29, 2013

New Rail Freight from China to Germany

Zhengzhou in Central China has started a rail freight service to Hamburg in Germany.  The train takers 18 days but this is more than twice as fast as ship...
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Posted on July 28, 2013

Green Shipping Project

As the use of fuel for cargo ships becomes more costly, developments are under way to introduce hybrid ships which will use wind assistance to reduce the c...
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Posted on July 27, 2013

Deep Sea Container Service for Liverpool

Feeder shipping services to Liverpool have been double, to enable more deep sea containers from the Far East to be forwarded to Ireland. The service from L...
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Posted on July 26, 2013

Low Growth for China Exports

According to one of the major shipping lines, export volumes out of east and central China have grown by just 3% in the first half year of 2013. Customs da...
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Posted on July 25, 2013

New Shipping Service for Tilbury

The opening port of call for a new dirt Panama shipping service will be Tilbury.  The direct weekly service will start on 18 September and will begin and ...
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Posted on July 24, 2013

China Reforms Rail Freight

China has begun modernising its rail freight industry after seeking opinions from customers. The Beijing Railway Bureau Freight Center is offering new serv...
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Posted on July 22, 2013

Freight Improvements in China

The rail freight industry, which is one of the last few monopoly industries in China, is improving its services and introducing reforms. As well as adding ...
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Posted on July 21, 2013

Chamber of Shipping Recruiting

As the current Director General of the UK Chamber of Shipping prepares to step down from the role at the end of this year, the organisation is recruiting f...
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Posted on July 20, 2013

New Cargo Air Hub

A new cargo centre facility at Berlin Brandenburg Airport will start working on 1 August.  The new airport serving the German capital for both passengers ...
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Posted on July 19, 2013

Freight Rates to rise in August

Shipping lines have announced new increases to freight rates and peak season surcharges for the Asia-Europe routes to be implemented inAugust. Although the...
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Posted on July 18, 2013

Transport and Logistics Leadership Academy

The British International Freight Association is giving its support to the T & L Leadership Academy in Daventry on 10 September 2013. The Academy is fo...
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Posted on July 17, 2013

Fuel Savings from Freight Switching

The Haven Gateway Partnership estimates that switching 90 freight containers from road to rail or coastal shipping would save £12000 in fuel costs.  Acco...
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Posted on July 16, 2013

Low Carbon Freight Dividend Extended

The LCFD, which was originally used to encourage companies to move freight from containers to rail, has now been extended to include coastal and short sea ...
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Posted on July 15, 2013

Brazil Changes Import Procedures

Customs Procedures for imports into Brazil were changed in May 2013, amending regulations which had been in place since 2006. It is no longer a requirement...
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Posted on July 14, 2013

Everywoman Transport and Logistics Awards

The UK's leading awards programme, organised by the Freight Transport Association, for women in transport and logistics has just held its presentation cere...
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Posted on July 13, 2013

Call for Container Packing Improvement

A major insurance supplier to the freight industry has called for improved container packing standards.  They say that higher levels of training are neede...
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Posted on July 12, 2013

Rail Freight Charges re-think

The Office of Rail Regulation has decided to re-think its proposed increase of 400% to the capacity charge for freight.  A new plan will be devised.  Thi...
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Posted on July 11, 2013

Road Freight to Decline

According to a recent report by IbisWorld, freight carried by road in the UK will face a number of structural challenges up to 2018.  The report shows tha...
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Posted on July 10, 2013

New Rail Freight Terminal

The Port of Felixstowe has opened a new rail freight terminal, which will double capacity at the container port.  Felixstowe is the busiest container port...
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Posted on July 9, 2013

Cargo Theft Decreasing

Cargo thefts in the USA are declining in volume, but the value of the average loss is higher.  It is unclear whether the drop in freight theft levels is r...
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Posted on July 7, 2013

Mega Freight Truck Trial

The haulier currently trialling 15.65 metre long trailers is asking the Department for Transport to allocate more trailers, as it could make use of another...
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Posted on July 6, 2013

Government Infrastructure Investment encourages freight suppliers

The Freight Transport Association has responded enthusiastically to plans announced by the Chancellor to invest £9.5 billion in infrastructure from April ...
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Posted on July 5, 2013

New Container Ship Orders

Shipping lines are still ordering new containers ships, in spite of the fact that big world economies are only just climbing out of recession.  Freight ca...
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Posted on July 4, 2013

Denmark Extends Freight Port

The port of Esbjerg in Denmark increased in size last week, enabling it to host specialist shipping of wind-turbines in addition to ro-ro and container ope...
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Posted on July 3, 2013

Freight Rates Double

Sea freight rates on the Asia to Northern Europe route have more than doubled for container freight.  This is the highest level of rates since mid March, ...
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Posted on July 2, 2013
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