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Issue 4 2014 - Freight Business Journal NDO offers Russia freight option


Norbert Dentressangle Overseas, the forwarding arm of the French-owned logistics company, has launched new services from the UK to Russia. Following its acquisition of the freight forwarding activities of the Daher Group in September last year, Norbert Dentressangle has secured a significant presence in the Russian


market, employing more than 100 people in three offices in Moscow, Ekaterinburg and Saint Petersburg. NDO is offering daily express


and weekly consolidated air freight services, consolidated and


ocean freight/road service options, together with a complete Customs brokerage


along with full load


and clearance service, with


seven customs terminals in key locations. UK commercial manager for


Norbert Dentressangle’s Freight Forwarding division, Matt Young, said: “Russia represents a massive opportunity for UK companies. However, it is still one of the most challenging markets to do business in. While


there are plenty of options for getting freight to Russia, the country’s customs regulations and procedures are extremely complex and subject to change without notice, creating a barrier to successful trading.” NDO could however offer a fast and accurate service that guarantees compliance with local Customs regulations, he said.


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A2B-online Container is expanding its services from Moerdijk to Immingham and Teesport with a third container vessel. With the charter of the 326teu MS Anja, there will now be five sailings per week to Immingham, as well as the existing one sailing per week to Teesport and three to London Thamesport, although the latter two routes are also earmarked for expansion.


The Port of Felixstowe has handled the first call of Evergreen’s CES (China Europe Shuttle) service with the arrival of the 8,452 TEU Ever Laden in late May. CES, which links North Europe to Asia with calls in Taiwan and China, has recently been calling at ports in continental Europe only.


CSAV – which recently announced a merger with Hapag Lloyd – has expanded its service from North Europe to the East Coast of North America and Gulf of Mexico with a second weekly sling, which calls in Southampton. The port rotation is Antwerp - Bremerhaven - Southampton - Charleston - Port Everglades - Houston - Savannah - Norfolk – Antwerp. The service uses five 3,200teu ships and the first sailing will be from Antwerp on 12 June. The existing sling calls on the North Continent only.


Israel-owned shipping line Zim said on 19 May that it had completed a $3m financial restructuring plan, including a $1.4bn debt equity conversion with creditors, following a protracted and complex series of negotiations. The agreements are subject to creditor and shareholder approvals. Zim also reached agreement with the Israel Ministry of Defense over a revised ‘golden share’ to ensure that national strategic interests are fully safeguarded.


Infrastructure work is complete on the 70-acre Forth Ports-Roxhill Developments London Distribution Park (LDP) at the Port of Tilbury. The development will provide up to 900,000 sq ſt of high quality warehousing and 11 acres of haulage facilities. Roxhill MD Jason Dalby says it is the largest ready-to-go industrial development site close to the M25 on the market.


The Vietnamese government has introduced a new law (effective from 1 April) 2014, limiting the total combined weight of 20’ and 40’ containers to 20 tons including the tare weight of the container, reports BIFA in its latest newsletter. Enforcement will be rigorous, according to BIFA, with mobile weighbridges deployed on highways across the country; so far 800 trucks have been fined for being overweight. The new weight limit has meanwhile led to port congestion as boxes have had to be restuffed within the dock gates.


The Container Owners Association has launched an online Global Container Depot directory. Its object is to make it easy for shipping lines and container asset owners to locate a container depot anywhere in the world, along with repair and storage depots. www. containerownersassociation.org


The Port of London Authority (PLA) has appointed three new non- executive directors – P&O Ferries chief executive, Helen Deeble, WS Atkins group human resources director, Alun Griffiths and chairman of the American Shipping Company ASA and Store Norske Kulkompani, Annette Malm Justad. William Everard will step down on 31 May and John Mills on 31 August, at the end of their six year term.


The UK’s Competition and Markets Authority backed, on 20 May, the Competition Commission’s earlier finding that Eurotunnel has an unfair position on the Channel market following the starting up of a ferry service in addition to its Channel Tunnel service. But Groupe Eurotunnel, which took over three ferries belonging to bankrupt state operator SeaFrance and rebranded them MyFerryLink, said that the CMA was seeking to justify the Competition Commission’s original analysis and that a material change in the market had occurred.


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