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Issue 4 2014 - Freight Business Journal


in creasin g the number of women


officer, Dryad Maritime, from Portsmouth Rising Star - Anna Kozlowska,


Everywoman’s a winner West Africa ro ro link for Thamesport >> 1


considering the industry as a career choice. Woman of


the Year - Jane


Curl-Carter, site manager, DHL Tradeteam Ltd from Burton on Trent Director of the Year - Anna


Whitty, CEO, ECT Charity, from London Driver of the Year - Rachel HGV driver, DHL


Homebase, from Wellingborough Innovation and Sustainability - Karen Jacques, chief operating


managing director, Myway Enterprises, from Lutterworth Team Leader of the Year -


Simone Fogg, general manager, Sainsbury’s Supermarkets, from London Warehousing - Claire Morrissy,


deputy distribution centre manager, Tesco, from Dagenham, London Industry Champion - Sharon


Davies, senior director, corporate affairs, DHL UK & Ireland, from London


Women in Logistics shortlist revealed


The nine individuals and two companies in the running for awards at the Women in Logistics annual conference and awards have been unveiled. The winners will be at


revealed a ceremony in Warwickshire on the


evening of Friday June 27, in the company of the judges Professor Richard Wilding and Ruth Waring, and special guest Mrs Beverley Bell, the UK’s first female traffic commissioner.


Hapag Lloyd to swallow CSAV


German-owned container line Hapag Lloyd has confirmed its long-anticipated merger with Chilean-based carrier CSAV just before Easter. CSAV’s container activities


would effectively be absorbed into Hapag Lloyd, although the South American operator’s bulk, car carrier and reefer vessel business would not be included in the deal and would continue under independent ownership under the CSAV banner. The deal will make Hapag


Lloyd the world’s fourth-largest container line, with market shares of just below 30% on some trades.


The South American


carrier will initially become a 30% shareholder in the German


company, increasing to 34% when a €370 million capital increase is concluded, of which CSAV will contribute €259m. The merged company will be headquartered in Hamburg, with a regional office in Chile. A spokesman for Hapag Lloyd


anticipated that there would be changes to the two lines’ services and port calls but that it was too early to say exactly what they would be. Likewise, it was too early to say what the future for CSAV’s existing partnerships with other lines would be. The spokesman predicted that


the merger would give Hapag Lloyd a much bigger presence in Latin America, building on its existing strong business in Mexico.


Netherlands-based RMR Shipping has started a new vehicle-carrying ro ro service from London Thamesport and northwest Europe to West Africa. It operates fortnightly carrying general and wheeled cargoes to Lagos (Nigeria), Dakar (Senegal) and Abidjan (Ivory Coast). Project and conventional cargoes are also accepted using the line’s own Mafi trailers. The first call of the service


was made by the 4,000 car capacity Dresden on 25 May. The vessel can handle a wide variety of cargoes through quarter and side ramps which allow loading and discharge directly onto the


quay. RMR is represented in the UK


by AB Global Logistics. Clemence


Cheng,


chief executive officer of Hutchison Ports (UK), owners and operators of London Thamesport, said: “London Thamesport has the flexibility and the workforce to meet a huge range of customer needs and we are confident in our ability to provide an excellent service to RMR Shipping and their customers. “ Director of AB Global


Logistics, Martin Fleet, added: “The port facilities are of a very high standard and the


cooperation with all the staff within the port has been exceptional. We


feel location of Thamesport the will


be a positive move for all the clients and their cargoes.”


IMO adopts container-weighing rules


An International Maritime Organization committee formally


approved new


rules to make weighing of containers compulsory on 20 May, a move welcomed by the British International Freight Association (BIFA). The IMO’s Maritime Safety Committee approved the draſt amendments to the Safety of Life at Sea (SOLAS), Chapter VI to require mandatory verification of the gross mass of containers. The IMO sub-committee


approved draſt guidelines, giving shippers two methods to verify the weight of a container – either by weighing the entire loaded


container using calibrated and certified equipment; or the ‘aggregated’ method, weighing smaller individual items, plus any packaging or dunnage used and combining it with the known weight of the empty container. While likely to be less accurate than weighing a complete, loaded container, many shippers do not have the means to do this. While loaded containers could be weighed at port or at weighbridges en route, many people believe that it is desirable to have a reasonable accurate weight before the container ventures out onto public roads. However, BIFA cautioned


that if the aggregating method does not work satisfactorily, mandatory weighing of


fully


loaded containers is likely. BIFA director general, Peter


Quantrill said that there was “a real problem” with container weights with leading insurers’ figures suggesting that about 20% of all containers are overweight. He added: “BIFA believes that


the correct place to establish the weight of a loaded container is before the vehicle drives on the public highway.” Quantrill blamed the problems on “poor regulatory enforcement and trade compliance.”


BIFA has already started


working with the UK’s enforcing agency,


the Maritime and


Coastguard Agency, and other trade bodies to produce a policy to meet the regulations. This, it said, needed to be simple to follow, making use of other accreditations such as ISO and commercial documentation. The draſt amendments should now be put forward for adoption to the next Maritime Safety Committee session in November and, if approved, will enter into force in July 2016. This, Quantrill concluded, should give the industry enough time in which to adapt.


Transfennica adds new Portsmouth links


Short-sea ro ro operator Transfennica is to introduce a twice-weekly service to Portsmouth on its service from Bilbao, Spain from 13 May. The Tuesday and Friday


evening sailings from Bilbao will call Portsmouth on Thursdays at 06.00 and on Sundays at 07.00 before heading to Zeebrugge. The new call gives customers the option of shipping a


substantial part of their Thursday and Friday collections from Spain over the weekend and delivering all over


the UK by Sunday


evening or Monday morning. It also gives a route to Belgium for driver accompanied traffic from the South West of England. As well as 12 driver spaces,


accompanied


unaccompanied units and containers, the service can also


handle out of gauge, heavy, mafi, project and hazardous cargo. In January, Transfennica


replaced two smaller chartered vessels with larger ones with a capacity of 100 trailers, 150 double-stacked containers and 12 drivers. Portsmouth International


Port manager, Martin Putman, commented: “We welcome this initiative from Transfennica


which has already established its credentials in the Spanish unaccompanied market. This new service will give freight customers using Portsmouth even greater choice and we look forward to developing this trade.” Transfennica director, Eric de


Wit, added: “We believe the market is ready for an unaccompanied solution connecting Spain, the UK and Belgium.“


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