NEWS\\\ A new name for the Channel
The Port of Dover welcomed back the former Seafrance vessels Berlioz, Rodin and Nord-pas de Calais on 20 August. The ships now operate the Eurotunnel-owned MyFerryLink service to and from Calais. The two first-named ships will
provide four crossings a day to France and will be joined by the Nord-Pas-de Calais freighter later this year. Dover’s director of business
and support services, Tim Waggott presented Jean-Michel Giguet, Chief Executive of the ferry company with a plaque to
Dover’s Tim Waggott (left) with Jean- Michel Giguet (MFL)
commemorate the event. Mr Waggott said the three
vessels “arrive at a time of major infrastructure investment within the port as we push forward an exciting £11.5m traffic management improvement project that will change the face of the port and provide extra capacity for freight and tourist vehicles.”
Small is beautiful for Stena North Sea
Stena Line is to replace its Stena Carrier and Stena Freighter on the Rotterdam-Harwich route with two new, but smaller vessels chartered from Cobelfret. The Capucine and Severine join the fleet on a five-year contract. Stena Line area director for the North Sea business area, Pim de
Lange, said: “The market conditions for the Rotterdam-Harwich route have been very tough during the past few years.” There was a very competitive environment on the North Sea and financial instability and recession throughout Europe. “This has led to a low capacity utilisation of our two current vessels
and a consequential poor financial development for the route,” he added. The two new vessels for the
route were built in 2011 and 2012 and have a deck capacity of 1,760 lane metres, compared with the 2,715m of the ships they replace. The former ships will stay within the Stena group for the time being.
Bikes mean business for Essex forwarder
A passion for motorbikes has turned into a lucrative business for Essex-based forwarder
Claridon.
Some 15 years ago, directors Chris Scott and Tim Cleary – both avid Harley-Davidson enthusiasts – approached the Harley Owners Club suggesting they offer a shipping service for worldwide enthusiasts wanting to bring their bikes to the massive rallies – oſten 200,000-strong - that take
place every year in the States. Eventually Claridon became the Club’s worldwide forwarding agent. It is also involved in other events in the motorbiking world such as the MotoGP races and the US Cannonball Rally. Later, Claridon shipped in
the exhibits for the Barbican Art Gallery in London’s ‘Art of the Harley’ exhibition, which formed the nucleus of a new exhibition
service for the forwarder. Claridon subsequently followed this up by staging its very own show, Customising, Culture and Harley featuring some of the world’s rarest and sought-aſter bikes at the Museum and Science and Industry in Manchester as a showcase for its exhibition forwarding skills. The exhibition forwarding
service has since prospered and Claridon has won a major contract with the Welsh Assembly Government for their events all over the world, explained Chris Scott.
Claridon, which is based at
Stanford-le-Hope, only a couple of miles from the new London Gateway port development, describes itself as a niche forwarder. It is also NATO’s European freight agent, having taken the business over from Hogg Robinson Group aſter operation Desert Storm in the 1990s. “We offer a very hands-on, genuinely 24/7 service, because we help support the AWACS aircraſt for NATO,” explains Chris Scott. “But that is also available for our other commercial customers too.”
De Lange concluded: “We need
to improve efficiency and reduce our operational costs. We will have smaller and cheaper tonnage and, at the same time, we can carry the same volumes that we have today and deliver the same service.”
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NEWS ROUNDUP TRADE & CUSTOMS
The European Commissioner for Taxation, Algirdas Šemeta has rejected a call by the International Road Transport Union for the TIR system to be reintroduced for intra-EU truck movements, as part of ongoing modifications to the EU customs code. The IRU had called for the TIR transit system to be reinstated for goods transport under customs control within the EU, arguing that it would be an attractive alternative to the T-form System. This, said IRU, was controlled by a handful of freight forwarding companies. However, the Commissioner said that such a move was unnecessary, and indeed would not be legally possible due to the absence of internal borders within the EU. Moreover, there were no restrictions on who could lodge transit declarations under the T form system, despite the IRU’s argument, said the Commissioner.
Russia officially joined the World Trade Organisation on 22 August, becoming the organisation’s 156th member. EU Trade Commissioner Karel De Gucht welcomed the accession saying that it would facilitate investment and trade. Of particular importance will be regulations on customs procedures, the use of health and sanitary measures, technical standards and the protection of intellectual property, he said. But he also warned: “Certain recently implemented or proposed legislation seems to be at odds with Russia’s commitments and would stand in the way of other WTO members fully realising the benefits expected from Russia’s WTO accession. The EU is particularly concerned about the proposed new legislation providing for a car recycling fee which could discriminate against imported vehicles and hopes that this legislation will not be adopted.”
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