NEWS\\\ News Roundup


WEC Lines is adding a second Leixões call on its Portugal-UK service, before calling at Tilbury as part of its ‘SPM2’ rotation. The full rotation is Tilbury, Antwerp, Vigo, Leixões, Sines, Lisbon, Leixões and Tilbury. It will reduce the transit time from eight to four days.


The G6 Alliance is temporarirly cutting back its Pacific Atlantic 2 service to operate between Asia and North America only, from mid-November. It will no longer serve the Transatlantic leg.


Finnish short-sea line Containerships and Russia/CIS logistics specialist Silvirom have signed a partnership to improve coverage of Central Asia, using a combination of Containerships short-sea services and Silvirom’s rail link via the port of Riga. Containerships will be able to offer more competitive and comprehensive transport solutions to destinations in CIS countries such as Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan and Tajikistan as well as some parts of eastern Russia.


Containerships is to add a surcharge of €70 on all containers to and from Teesport, Sheerness, Ghent, Rotterdam, Aarhus from the New Year, following the introduction of new Sulphur emission limits for ships. For Ireland, the surcharge will be €100. The current 2014 bunker adjustment factor (BAF) will be ‘frozen’ and included in the freight amount. Maersk Line will also introduce a new Low Sulphur Surcharge from 1 January 2015. It ranges from $30 per 40ſt unit on trades such as Asia, Africa or India to North Europe up to $160 on the North Europe/Canada route. DAL has announced UK and Northwest Continent surcharges including $25 to and from North Africa and Turkey, $35 to and from Southern Africa, $50 to and from the Canary Islands, €15 to and €28 from Mauritius/Reunion/Madagascar and €68 from Ireland from Mauritius/Reunion/Madagascar.


Freight by Water is holding a free one-day event on 26 November at Wakefield Holiday Inn. As well as the launch of a Customers’ Guide to Water Freight, key themes will include North of England water freight success stories; how to make water freight work in the North;West Yorkshire Combined Authority’s perspective on water freight; and Freight by Water policy developments, including mode shiſt grants policy development ref water freight. To register, contact sdarrington@ſta.co.uk 01892 552299.


Bristol Port Company chief executive Simon Bird will take over as chairman of the nine-member UK Major Ports Group at the end of November. He succeeds Charles Hammond, group chief executive of Forth Ports, who is stepping down at the end of a four year term. James Cooper, CEO of Associated British Ports is taking over as deputy chairman.


The Port of Tyne has appointed Nick West as a non-executive director. He is the former CEO of Euroports and is currently a non- executive director at the Deep-sea Container Terminal at Port of Gdansk and Verbrugge International in the Netherlands.


The competition authority in Brazil has given unconditional clearance for the planned integration of CSAV and Hapag-Lloyd’s container shipping activities. Agreement is still awaited from the EU, US and Chile.


Hamburg Süd has opened an office in Gandhidham, India, its second in the state of Gujarat. Hamburg Süd already has three offices in Mumbai, New Delhi and Ahmedabad.


Associated British Ports is offering port companies a year’s guest membership of the British Chamber of Commerce. Nine local Chamber of Commerce branches are involved in the scheme. For more information contact 01292 670144 or email bccmembershipoffer@abports.co.uk and quote ‘ABP Guest Membership Offer’.


Many supply chain executives are failing to develop and execute strategies manage supply chain risks, says a new UPS-sponsored study. This is despite the fact that many are well aware of those risks and their undesirable consequences, according to Managing Risk in the Global Supply Chain, sponsored by UPS Capital Corporation, and


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Sea Firms ‘gamble with supply chains’


conducted by the Global Supply Chain Institute at the University of Tennessee. UPS Capital offers risk


mitigation solutions in a number of European countries, including the UK and Ireland. The study found that, of over 150 firms surveyed, 90% did not formally quantify supply chain risk when outsourcing


production, and not one used outside expertise to help assess supply chain risks. Executive director of the Global Supply Chain Institute and the study author, Dr Paul Dittmann, said: “We were surprised by some of the findings regarding the lack of


mitigation strategies. The


supply chain is one area of a company where executives are


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faced with balancing operational efficiencies, all without actually having direct control


over


many of the moving parts, thus making risk mitigation strategies almost essential to operations. Any business that does not have some basic form of risk mitigation plans in place is simply gambling with its existence.”


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