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Issue 1 2015 - Freight Business Journal Tilbury breaks


ground on London Distribution Park


///NEWS


Pentalver inks contract on permanent London Gateway depot


Pentalver is to develop a permanent depot at DP World London Gateway. The container service operator has been providing empty storage, dry repair and reefer services from temporary


premises since


April 2014 but will now build a permanent facility, to be built in two phases. Pentalver, part of the AP


Moeller-Maersk group, will operate out of a purpose-built facility on a five-acre site, and the


Treasury secretary Priti Patel officially launched construction of the Port of Tilbury’s new London Distribution Park on 25 November. At


the turf-cutting


ceremony, Perry Glading, chief operating officer at Forth Ports- owned Tilbury also revealed that builders’ merchant Travis Perkins would be the Park’s first tenant, and is expected to open a 108,000sq ſt distribution and consolidation centre early next year. Glading said that the new Travis


Perkins DC would occupy around 10% of the total space at the 1m sq ſt development, creating 124 new jobs. The company is already an active user of the port, but expects to increase its activity once the new site at LDP is open, he added. “The south-east construction market is currently very buoyant,” Glading told FBJ. “We expect Travis Perkins to import around 40-50,000 tonnes of building materials a year, such as timber, steel and bricks – of which there is currently a shortage in the UK.”


Ship to shore in Felixstowe


The UK’s largest container port, Felixstowe, is developing 1.45 million sq ft of ‘portcentric’ warehousing


on a 68-acre


site. The port’s CEO, Clemence Cheng, said it would have “the key advantage of being located within -


the port’s perimeter” less than 100 metres from


Berths 8 and 9 which handles the world’s largest container ships, and only 500 metres from Trinity terminal. Both terminals can be accessed on internal roads. Cheng


added: “For both


UK and northern European distribution, occupiers will


benefit from the unrivalled range of road, rail and short-sea carriage available at Felixstowe. The site is located adjacent to No.1 Gate with immediate access to the A14 and very close to the port’s three rail terminals. With 60 freight


train movements


each day this opens up a wide range of sustainable transport options.” The port is being advised


by First Industrial on the development of the Logistics Park. It follows the planning consent received by Uniserve, the UK’s largest independent international freight and logistics company, for its first 500,000sq ft ‘Super DC’ at Felixstowe. Mr Cheng said: “We expect


huge interest in this site. The ability to create a purpose- built warehouse at the UK’s largest container port with all the advantages that brings is an exciting prospect for importers, retailers and third-party logistics providers.”


Hapag Lloyd-CSAV merger complete


Hapag-Lloyd and Chile’s Compañía Sud Americana de Vapores


approval for their merger from all relevant national authorities, the two container lines said on 2 December. Contracts for the merger of the two companies were signed back in April in Hamburg. The merged entity will be the biggest container


fourth line


in the world with about 200 vessels and a total capacity of 1m teu, transporting 7.5m teu every year and with revenues


(CSAV) obtained


of around US$12 billion. Annual savings of at least $300 million are anticipated as a result of network optimisation. The main part of the integration process is expected to be completed by the end of the second quarter of 2015. Hapag Lloyd CEO, Rolf Habben


Jansen, said: “With Hapag-Lloyd’s strength in Asian traffic and on the North Atlantic, combined with CSAV’s strong position in Latin America, we will become the leading shipping company in this region.”


CMA CGM buys


another short-sea specialist


CMA CGM is to acquire German-based shortsea line company OPDR (Oldenburg- Portugiesische Dampfschiffs- Rhederei), subject to regulatory approval. OPDR is currently owned by


the Bernhard Schulte Group and operates door to door logistics services between North Europe and the Canary Islands, the Iberian Peninsula, Morocco and Scandinavia. In late 2014, OPDR relocated its Iberian Peninsula/


Canaries/North Africa service from Felixstowe to Tilbury and, in October, daughter company OPDR Maroc, launched a new weekly service between Agadir, Tilbury and the North Continent.


CMA CGM already


owns shortsea operator MacAndrews, a company it took over in 2002. In 2014, OPDR expects to


carry over 240,000teu and MacAndrews over 290,000teu.


second phase will expand the facility to nine acres within five years. When the first phase opens for


business in April 2015, Pentalver will offer cargo handling, transport, loaded storage, empty storage, reefer services, maintenance and container refurbishment. Pentalver managing director,


Chris Lawrenson, said: “Our DP World London Gateway operation has gone from strength to strength since opening our temporary


site. Our new permanent depot... not only offers us the potential for growth, but reinforces our commitment to investing in our customers’ requirements at locations of their choice.” The port’s CEO, Simon Moore


added: “Pentalver will provide a suite of complementary services for our shipping lines and we will work together to ensure speedy, smooth and efficient connections between our operations and those of the container depot.”


New West Africa link


CMA CGM is reconfiguring its Europe and Mediterranean to West Africa services into two separate routes, including one calling at London Gateway from 22 January. It will improve reliability and London Gateway will be linked to strategic ports in Nigeria, Ghana, Ivory Coast and Senegal, it says.


The Euraf 1 service will deploy six 3,500teu vessels operating weekly


between Dunkirk, Antwerp, Le Havre, Montoir, Tangiers, Dakar, Abidjan, Dakar, Tangiers and Dunkirk from 22 January. Euraf 2 will use six 2,600teu ships calling weekly at Antwerp, Hamburg, London Gateway, Tangiers, Lagos TinCan, Tema, Abidjan and Antwerp.


Peter Ward to lead warehousemen


London Gateway commercial director and head of


cargo


supply chain Peter Ward is moving to a new job as CEO of the UK Warehousing Association as current UKWA CEO Roger Williams hands over


his current role in mid-January. Ward’s 30-year career includes a spell as director Europe of P&O Nedlloyd Logistics, and MD of Wincanton Group’s International division.


Supply Chain He joined DP World London


Gateway in April 2011, making a significant contribution to the development of the new deep water container terminal and Europe’s largest logistics park. He brings practical


experience of international


process design and network optimisation, including designing and implementing complex supply chain solutions in different logistics and client organisations worldwide.


Schenker signs green deal with Maersk


DB Schenker Logistics has signed a six-year carbon-cutting deal with Maersk Line. Under it, the shipping operator will undertake to reduce the CO2 emissions of every container it ships on behalf of DB Schenker


Logistics between now and 2020 by 20% compared to 2014 levels. According to DB’s chief sustainability officer, it is the first agreement between a global logistics services provider and a container shipping company


marketing


Maersk’s chief trade and officer,


Vincent


Clerc, added: “The partnership encourages greater transparency on sustainable container transportation which can drive significant


sustainability


improvements in the industry. By integrating sustainability elements into the purchasing decisions, we jointly strive to change the procurement process in container shipping fundamentally.”


DB Schenker Rail has


doubled its intermodal services from London Gateway to Trafford Park in Manchester


from two a week to four. Rail currently accounts for 30% of cargo at the new port. Along with


the services to Trafford Park the company also runs trains from the port to Daventry and South Wales.


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