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CMA CGM ‘s Euraf1 service between Northern Europe and West Africa has started calls at Tilbury’s London Container Terminal. Six 3,500teu vessels link Tilbury and other European ports with Tanger Med, Algeciras, Dakar, Abidjan and Dakar.


Chilled distribution specialist NFT has started building its new port- centric logistics centre in Tilbury. Due to be open for business by late 2015, it will have capacity for 25,000 pallets or 2.5 million cases per week.


Europa Worldwide’s Air & Sea forwarding arm has added weekly less than container Load (LCL) shipments out of the US and the Far East by teaming up with strategic partners in the two regions. Europa is also a member of the FETA Freight Systems International Network (FFSI), a global agent network of companies offering the full spectrum of transport services. US services will operate from Chicago and New York and from Hong Kong, Shanghai and Kaohsiung in Asia.


MSC has added a new direct call in Dakar on its North Europe to West Africa service. It said it would drastically improve transit time for reefers and consolidated cargo. The service calls at Felixstowe in the UK. MSC’s Australia Express Service has also started calls at DP World London Gateway Port, providing direct calls to King Abdullah port in Saudi Arabia, Colombo in Sri Lanka and ports around the Australian coast. It will be the fastest direct service between Northern Europe and Australia.


MSC has added the Spanish North African enclave of Ceuta as a new place of delivery. This complements the existing service to Melilla introduced in 2012. The service to Ceuta will be performed under on- carriage conditions either via Algeciras, for cargo routed on 2M vessels calling at Algeciras, or via Malaga.


CMA CGM has taken delivery of the first Guyanamax 3 series vessel for its service from North Europe to North Brazil and the Caribbean. The 2,100teu CMA CGM Cayenne can carry 530 reefer containers and will sail under the UK flag. The service calls at Tilbury and Philipsburg (St Maartin), Port of Spain (Trinidad), Degrad des Cannes (French Guiana), Belem (Brazil), Fortaleza (Brazil) and Natal (Brazil). The other two ships in the series will be completed will be completed in August and September.


Nolan Gray has joined the Port of Tyne as business development director. A chartered management accountant with 18 years of corporate experience, most recently he was finance director at DeepOcean UK, where he managed the finance and supply chain interests of the business in the UK and global markets.


GAC UK has appointed Martin Kenney as chartering and project manager. A ship broker and agent for 27 years working with heavy liſt carriers such as BigLiſt, Rolldock, Jumbo and CPC, he has managed turnkey projects worldwide and, for the last seven years, has managed his own company, Project Navigation. He is the latest member of GAC UK’s new nationwide team of specialist product managers dedicated to different sectors.


The Ports Services Regulation, now being considered by the European parliament, is still a threat, the UK Major Ports Group chairman Simon Bird told shipping minister Robert Goodwill on 16 July. Mr Bird said. “It is important that the UK Government recognises the potential harm that this Regulation could do to a sector that currently contributes nearly £8bn to the UK economy.” At the meeting, the Minister confirmed that the UK Government would be seeking the reinstatement of the Competitive Market Exemption and other concessions gained during the EU Transport Council meeting last October.


The Port of Rotterdam Authority has signed a partnership agreement with the Indonesian Port Corporation Pelindo I in Medan, North Sumatra for the development of the new deep sea port Kuala Tanjung.


The Air Cargo Netherlands steering committee is setting up a ‘Milk Run’ collection service at Schiphol airport to replace separate collections from handling agents with a single delivery to a number of forwarders’ facilities. It will help reduce reduce carbon emissions


WFS extends


Heathrow footprint


Airfreight handler Worldwide Flight Services (WFS) is to extend its footprint at Heathrow aſter it took a new ten-year lease on a 82,400sq ſt airside unit at B549 Shoreham Road.


It follows the


announcement in March 2015 of a lease on the 150,000sq ſt Building 550, giving WFS nearly 400,000sq ſt at Heathrow Cargo Centre in four units. The deal was secured through


SEGRO and Aviva Investors, through their joint venture, Airport Property Partnership (APP).


Developer


to fund new airfreight site


Lothbury Investment Man-


agement is to fund a new cargo site near Heathrow. Developer Chancerygate is building a single storey warehouse and headquarters at Poyle Central and the completed 43,500 sq ſt building will have excellent access to the cargo terminal, it says. It will be available to let from summer 2016. It is described as a self-contained detached facility with fitted offices, as well as generous yards and separately accessed car parking for 33 vehicles. Poyle Central is next to Lothbury’s existing Colndale Industrial


Estate and Unit 5


Arkwright Road. Lothbury executive director,


Mike Toſt, said there was a restricted supply of industrial property near Heathrow. Chancerygate development


manager, Jonathan Lee, commented: “Our original intention was to develop the site then offer the completed scheme to the investment market but we then received strong institutional interest to forward fund.”


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and cut congestion, they say. The launch partners in the


new Milk Run service are DHL, Panalpina, Nippon Express, Menzies (as the handling agent triallist and scheme manager), Bos Logistics (which provides the collection and delivery service on behalf of Menzies) and community system provider Cargonaut. A further ten forwarders will take part in later trials. The scheme is being co-funded


by the participants. The handler provides the delivery of the cargo at the forwarder’s premises as an extra service which the forwarder pays for – but it avoids the cost of hiring in transport. An online portal monitors


shipments from prior to arrival at Schiphol, until the freight is delivered to the forwarder’s door. The service is maintained by normal trailers operating three trips per day. Panalpina


business unit manager, Dimitri Brink, said: “The


Milk Run is already exceeding our expectations, freeing up our vehicles and drivers, and giving us earlier access to import freight. If this success can be extended to all imports through Schiphol, it will score yet another advantage for the airport in its role as a major gateway for Europe.” The committee says that the


Milk Run has already reduced import vehicle movements among participants by 30%, and load factors have increased from an average 25% to over 60%. The pilot will run until the end of 2015, when a full evaluation will take place. If the trial is considered a success, the eventual aim is to operate a similar facility for export cargo. Cargonaut commercial director


Luc Scheidel told FBJ: “The pilot not only shows promising results, but it also shows how innovation in a supply chain can be done by cooperation between the various parties in that chain.” He added that the eventual aim


was to make the service available to all parties based at Schiphol but was being operated with a more restricted scope while experience was built up during the trial period. The nearest equivalent to the


Schiphol venture is IAG’s Cargo Connector service that operates at Heathrow, Frankfurt and some US gateways, which serves only the carrier’s own flights. Luc


Scheidel said: “For the


milk run, the process has been redesigned, resulting in a more optimized process at the handler and less truck movements between handlers and forwarders. In the milk run concept, the handler coordinates


the distribution


of cargo to the forwarders. As I understand in Cargo Connector, the airline does this coordination. “The starting point for the milk


run is to optimize the overall process, whereas I see that for Cargo Connectors the first aim is to improve service to a specific segment of customers.”


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