Shipping and Containers

The Department for Transport today called on interested parties to bid for funds to finance projects in the North Sea region as part of the EU's plan to establish “Motorways of the Sea”. Motorways of the Sea will be key routes between EU member states and, sometimes, neighbouring third countries. …

At a meeting of the Freight Transport Association's Rail Freight Council on 3 July, members agreed upon a work programme to promote the needs of rail freight. Council agreed to identify and champion a specific set of policy issues as follows: – Network pinch-points that constrain freight traffic – Gauge …

Delphi is currently reaping the benefits of a new bespoke plastic container designed by SSI Schaefer exclusively for the Mercedes Benz C-Class. SSI Schaefer, the UK's leading storage and material handling equipment solutions provider, was successfully invited by Delphi to participate in a project to develop a bespoke container designed …

A London waste company was fined £30,000 yesterday after attempting to illegally export maggot-infested household waste to India. Community Waste Ltd, of Earls Court in London, was also ordered to pay £13,000 in costs by Maidstone Crown Court after pleading guilty to illegally exporting shipments of unsorted household waste to …

By Gary Whittle, Commercial Manager, Meachers Group. Despite constant media coverage of the growth of imports and exports to and from the Far East, the USA is still Britain's largest single export market, taking £28.5bn of UK goods in 2004. The UK is the sixth largest exporter to the US, …

Environmental packaging issues top of the tree for IPS As UK market leaders in the design and development of protective packaging in materials such as advanced foams, corrugated boards and composites, Wrexham-based Interactive Packaging Solutions (IPS) are sensitive to the wider issues associated with packaging. This takes the company's capabilities …

On time and on budget, advanced new Edmonton materials handling facility provides major operating and cost saving benefits Improved throughput, operating efficiencies and stock management, together with significant cost savings, are just some of the major benefits provided by a newly-built, fully-automated warehouse, opened recently by Coca-Cola Enterprises Limited (CCE) …

The Department for Transport has today published a report on potential reform in the trust port sector in England and Wales. The report was prepared for the Department by independent consultants Pricewaterhouse Coopers (PwC). The report was commissioned to help the Department understand how the potential of trust ports can …

The Department for Transport has today published National Statistics on freight traffic handled at UK ports in 2006. These provisional port statistics for 2006 show that: * Total freight traffic fell by 4.7 million tonnes (Mt) to 580.2 Mt in 2006, one per cent lower than in 2005. * Inwards …

IMPROVEMENTS TO M6 AND WEST COAST MAIN LINE AMONGST KEY NEEDS. The Freight Transport Association has welcomed the publication of the West Midlands Regional Freight Strategy which seeks to support national and regional objectives for the sustainable, economic and efficient movement of goods within, to and from the region. The …