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Issue 1 2021 - Freight Business Journal


///FREIGHT BREAK


Artist Sandra Ward is lucky enough to live in an apartment block in Portsmouth overlooking Southsea with an unfettered view of all sorts of marine traffic in and out of Portsmouth, Southampton and the Isle of Wight. A friend living in the same block always had a hankering for a picture of her favourite ferry from the Brittany fleet and the result is ‘Mont St Michel leaving Portsmouth Harbour’. Not only an excellent likeness,


but an interesting use of colours and textures to create light, shade and water. When she’s


not painting, Sandra is out with her camera or contributing to charitable causes, including


Don’t mess with my tutu


Art of a rather different kind. A hippo in a tutu was among the


collection of Turning the port purple


“Get ready for January 2021 and find a freight


forwarder


to help you,” says a new film starring Davies Turner & Co director Alan Williams. Davies Turner, one of the independent


UK’s largest


freight forwarding companies, was approached by HMRC to help with the public information broadcast for


social media. The film is part of a


publicity drive by HMRC, working alongside the Cabinet Office, designed to showcase the services offered by the freight forwarding sector and to provide clarity to those businesses that have only ever been involved in


the EU and Single Market with


no previous experience of international trade in the wider world. It also serves to encourage


importers and exporters to use


the services of freight


forwarders as part of their preparations for the imminent end of the transition period. https://www.youtube.com/ watch?v=rpQChkzFYDU


sculptures


moved by Digifreight network member, UAE-based Cargo Line Shipping Services


from


Italy for an exhibition for local artist Antonio Signorini. It’s not often that forwarders


are asked to shift 1.5-tonne stone aquatic creatures so Cargo Line had to scour the country to find a forklift that could both handle the


weight and fit into the cargo elevator at Dubai International Financial Centre where Hippo Ballerina and her chums went on exhibition. Not even ceramic hippos


escape the attentions of UAE Customs so the forwarder arranged a temporary import and a deposit for the hefty duty and VAT payment, which was re-claimed as soon as all artworks were re-exported out of the UAE back to Italy.


Study could pave the way for 400mph fruit and veg


The Municipality of Rotterdam Port of Amsterdam, Air Cargo Netherlands and other trading and local government interests have signed a study covenant for a proposed hyperloop for the Rotterdam-Amsterdam freight corridor. Similar in concept to the


schemes being promoted by DP World and others in the


Gulf region, the public-private Hyperloop Development Program says that a cargo hyperloop can offer many benefits to the fresh produce industry, by greatly increasing the speed and reliability of deliveries. It could also lead to a great


reduction in maintenance costs of existing infrastructure


and traffic jams, as well as air quality improvements. A hyperloop is a linear-


powered rail system operating in an evacuated tube, which greatly lowers air resistance compared with trains operating in the normal atmosphere. Protagonists of such systems say that they could one day rival jet aircraft for speed.


helping to restore a D-Day landing craſt and supporting Wimbledon AFC.


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