Ports

The Shipwrecked Mariners’ Society is concerned that many retired seafarers are failing to claim the statutory benefits to which they are entitled through lack of information and awareness.

The Secretary of State for Transport, the Rt. Hon. Justine Greening MP, visited the Port of Felixstowe, the country’s largest container port, to see it take delivery of its latest consignment of new cranes.

An ambitious project which aims to raise the status of Calais as a continental logistics hub received widespread approval at its official launch. The strategically-located Calais Premier concept is being promoted as ‘the United Kingdom’s continental gateway’.

The Port of Felixstowe commenced its 29th daily rail service on Saturday 1st October.

Lord Mandelson, the former Labour Peer and European Commissioner, visited the Port of Tyne as part of an Institute for Public Policy Research Relations study into the impact of globalisation.

Lord Green, Minister for Trade and Investment, visited the Port of Tyne as part of a UKTI trade and investment delegation to the region.

Len Jones was born in 1911, the coronation year of King George V and the year Titanic was launched at the Harland & Woolf shipyard in Belfast.

Ports are central to achieving significant reductions in carbon emissions in the maritime industry, according to evidence from a new University of Hull study.

APM Terminals was named winner of the “Best Port Operator in Africa” award at the Transport Africa Awards ceremony held in Johannesburg, South Africa. The criteria for the award were ‘operational efficiency and effectiveness and the ability to demonstrate best practice in Africa’s ports sector’.

A VIP delegation from Indonesia visited the Port of Dover recently in order to discover how the port plans for the future.