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Eurotunnel Freight Growth

During the first nine months of 2013, the number of freight trains travelling through the Channel Tunnel has grown by double digits.  Most of this growth ...
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Posted on October 31, 2013

Containers for Commonwealth Games

Shipping containers are being used to pack and store equipment purchased from the London Olympics, for use in Glasgow in 2014. The containers are being sec...
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Posted on October 30, 2013

Freight Containers on Seine

In September 2012, a major French logistics operator began use the river Seine to transport goods in containers by barge to stores in Paris, saving almost ...
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Posted on October 29, 2013

Paris Green Logistics

Last month the city of Paris presented a charter designed to make freight distribution within the city more environmentally friendly. Intended to be implem...
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Posted on October 28, 2013

Possible Freight problems in France

Registration for the new French ecotax requires up to ten sets of documents to be completed.  Many applications are being refused and returned because of ...
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Posted on October 26, 2013

Freight Lorries to prepare for Ecotax

From 1 January 2014, all freight vehicles over 3.5 tonnes will have to pay an extra road tax in France.  If vehicles are not registered, they may have pay...
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Posted on October 25, 2013

Food and drink export plan

Earlier this month the government outlined plans to add £500m to the UK economy by hoping 1000 food and drink companies. The Environment Secretary launche...
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Posted on October 24, 2013

Food Exports to China Booming

Last year the UK Government signed a deal allowing UK exporters to sell certain pork products, including offal, trotters and ears, to China.  Of the £57 ...
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Posted on October 23, 2013

Russia Opens door for Meat Imports

Last month the Environment Secretary signed a major trade agreement with Russia, which will allow beef and lamb exports from the UK to be imported into Rus...
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Posted on October 22, 2013

Climate Controlled Freight at Heathrow

A new pharmaceutical centre at Heathrow airport has been opened by the freight business of BA and Iberia, to handle temperature sensitive pharmaceuticals. ...
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Posted on October 21, 2013

Liverpool Development for Low Carbon Imports

Liverpool's development as a deep-water port will allow imports from anywhere in the world to be delivered to a market of over 35 million consumers without...
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Posted on October 20, 2013

Deep Water Container Terminal at Liverpool

The port of Liverpool will be able to welcome the world's largest freight shipping when its new container terminal is completed.  Over the years Liverpool...
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Posted on October 19, 2013

Proposed Rail Freight Park for Glasgow

Proposals for an International Rail Freight park in North Lanarkshire aim to create an expanded railhead, a Distribution Park for large warehousing and log...
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Posted on October 18, 2013

Dover Freight Traffic Recovery

Freight vehicle traffic increased by just over 11% on ferry services from Dover to Calais and Dunkirk in the first half of the year. According to a spokesm...
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Posted on October 17, 2013

Le Havre Container Development

A new deep water container terminal, sufficiently deep to accommodate the biggest ships in service today, has begun its final phase of development. The cur...
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Posted on October 16, 2013

Air Freight jobs shrinking

France's flagship carrier, Air France, is planning to lose more than 300 cargo staff next year.  The airline will also be shedding jobs in the passenger s...
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Posted on October 15, 2013

Export Growth for Vietnam

Vietnam exports billions of dollars' worth of cargo to the USA and Europe, and is expecting to increase this as Vietnam becomes more dominant as a world tr...
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Posted on October 14, 2013

Precious Freight

More than 200 pieces of gold and ancient artefacts have been transported from Columbia in South America to London by air freight.  The objects will appear...
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Posted on October 13, 2013

Freight Security in France and Germany

Police forces in mainland Europe, especially France and Germany, seem to be robustly enforcing laws on cargo security.  If the wrapping on a pallet is not...
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Posted on October 12, 2013

Multimodal Logistics Hub for Belgium

On the banks of the Canal Albert, construction has begun of a major multimodal logistics hub, which will serve as a gateway to the seaports of Rotterdam, A...
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Posted on October 11, 2013

New Air Freight service to Chengdu

In September a new air cargo route from London Heathrow to Chengdu began operation. This will be the only direct air service between Chengdu Airport and He...
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China Freight rates fail to surge

Freight rates from China remained weak last month: the industry usually expects a surge in demand before China's National Golden holiday which begins on 1 ...
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Posted on October 10, 2013

New call at Helsingborg, Sweden

Helsingborg is one of the new ports of call on the Scan-Baltic shipping service which links Teesport, Thamesport, Helsinborg and Gdynia to Iberia.  The fr...
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Posted on October 9, 2013

Shipping Container crushes car

Last month a woman in China escaped virtually unharmed when her car was crushed by a shipping container.  She was driving alongside a lorry in Jiangsu Pro...
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Posted on October 8, 2013

Refrigerated Shipping Uncertainty

Shipping of refrigerated perishable goods increased by about 3.6% per year between 2002 and 2012 but the future is uncertain. Specialised refrigerated flee...
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Posted on October 7, 2013

New Rail Freight Line for Calais

An intersecting rail freight service from Calais to an existing rail motorway in Luxembourg is scheduled for early in 2015.  The current rail motorway run...
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Posted on October 6, 2013

French Rail Freight Projects

The government of France has announced two projects to create rail freight 'motorways' where lorries will be transferred off the roads and on to dedicated ...
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Posted on October 5, 2013

Freight Event Record

Multimodal 2014 will be 16% bigger than this year's show and is already 50% sold out.  As the UK's biggest supply chain event, it will feature seminars an...
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Posted on October 4, 2013

Scotch Whisky Freight Experiment

An experiment has begun to ship Scotch whisky from Elgin in Speyside to Grangemouth Rail Freight Terminal. Currently, all bulk Scotch whisky freight is mov...
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Posted on October 3, 2013

Shipping Costs set to fall

At the moment Container Shipping costs are rising, but the trend has not been uniform across all trades.  Commentators expect that freight rates may fall ...
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Posted on October 2, 2013

Alberta Airport consults freight industry

When Alberta airport wanted to find out what exporting challenges the city face, it asked the International Freight forwarders Association, Canadian Manufa...
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Posted on October 1, 2013
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