British coastwise timber shipping
NewsA new timber call into the Port of Dover Cargo Terminal from Aberdeen strengthens coastal shipping on the East Coast of Great Britain...
Shift from Dover Straits
NewsIn its latest customer newsletter, consultancy MDS Transmodal points to a “Brexit dividend for the North Sea Ro-Ro Corridor;” Dover Stra...
Dover gets £45M government funding to improve traffic flow
NewsThe government’s new £2.1B Levelling Up Fund includes meeting Kent County Council’s bid to ease traffic flow through the UK’s biggest...
Dover handles breakbulk fruit as Brazilian shipper exits containerisation
NewsThe Port of Dover’s cargo terminal has received a new reefer breakbulk call. The new cargo stream is the result of partial decontainerisat...
Port of Dover vital for UK supply chain resilience
NewsAround 60% of the UK’s unitized seafreight is European trade and the Dover Straits (ferry and tunnel) account for over 50% of the traffic...
London Medway claims modal shift from Dover
NewsPeel Ports’ London Medway port (Sheerness) has reported a substantial increase in trade on DFDS’s unaccompanied freight service link wit...
Dover announces decarbonisation goals
NewsThe Port of Dover has announced three ambitious targets to place it “at the vanguard of decarbonisation within the UK ports industry”...
Dover acquires two new Liebherr mobile harbour cranes
NewsA LHM 550 and a LHM 280 have been delivered to the Channel port’s multipurpose cargo terminal...
Sheerness-Calais ro-ro service
NewsDFDS Seaways is introducing a freight only ro-ro service between Calais and Sheerness...
Port of Dover Cargo Terminal becomes fully temperature controlled
NewsA major stage of the Port of Dover’s Cargo Terminal redevelopment is complete, with a fully temperature controlled warehouse now in operat...
Brexit – whither (or wither?) now?
NewsThe UK Parliament’s emphatic rejection of PM Theresa May’s leave deal opens the question of whether another Brexit deal can be negotiate...
Dover attacks deep sea port failures
NewsWith reports that even a post-Brexit two-minute delay to every truck at Dover could lead to 17-mile tailbacks, the port has, strangely, poin...
Brexit deal or no deal – “The solution is Dover”
NewsPort of Dover states that the cost of trying to divert traffic to other UK ports would be ca £2.5B. Meanwhile, Samskip has announced anothe...
Peel Ports: “UK needs Channel trade reality check”
NewsPeel Ports, most of whose assets are in north west Britain, is calling on cargo owners, hauliers and others to look at the Irish Sea model o...
The warp and weft of EU Brexit
NewsRo-ro is particularly exposed to a hard Brexit, and high-friction borders would be a disaster for accompanied freight....