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Port of Dover welcomes new Liebherr crane

News18 Jul 2024

Liebherr Maritime Cranes introduced the LHM 550 mobile harbour crane to the Port of Dover, featuring a 54m outreach, and 104-tonne lifting c...

Port of Dover invests in Liebherr LHM 550 Crane

News26 Jun 2024

Port of Dover boosts operations with new Liebherr LHM 550 mobile harbour crane....

British coastwise timber shipping

News6 Nov 2023

A 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

News8 Mar 2023

In 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

News20 Jan 2023

The 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

News14 Oct 2022

The 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

News29 Sep 2022

Around 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

News11 Aug 2022

Peel Ports’ London Medway port (Sheerness) has reported a substantial increase in trade on DFDS’s unaccompanied freight service link wit...

Dover announces decarbonisation goals

News4 May 2022

The 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

News15 Sep 2021

A LHM 550 and a LHM 280 have been delivered to the Channel port’s multipurpose cargo terminal...

Sheerness-Calais ro-ro service

News8 Apr 2021

DFDS Seaways is introducing a freight only ro-ro service between Calais and Sheerness...

Port of Dover Cargo Terminal becomes fully temperature controlled

News2 Dec 2020

A 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?

News16 Jan 2019

The 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

News13 Oct 2018

With 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”

News1 Oct 2018

Port 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”

News20 Jun 2018

Peel 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...

Port of Dover welcomes new Liebherr crane

Port of Dover invests in Liebherr LHM 550 Crane

British coastwise timber shipping

Shift from Dover Straits

Dover gets £45M government funding to improve traffic flow

Dover handles breakbulk fruit as Brazilian shipper exits containerisation

Port of Dover vital for UK supply chain resilience

London Medway claims modal shift from Dover

Dover announces decarbonisation goals

Dover acquires two new Liebherr mobile harbour cranes

Sheerness-Calais ro-ro service

Port of Dover Cargo Terminal becomes fully temperature controlled

Brexit – whither (or wither?) now?

Dover attacks deep sea port failures

Brexit deal or no deal – “The solution is Dover”

Peel Ports: “UK needs Channel trade reality check”

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CMA CGM’s revenue up 38.5% in Q3 2024

Will a new Trump Administration end the Clean Ports Program?

Alabama moves into 4th gear

Port of Guam approves STS crane replacement, seeks DoD funding to avoid Chinese suppliers

Pier VIII container terminal secures funding

Port of Dover welcomes new Liebherr crane

Port of Dover invests in Liebherr LHM 550 Crane

British coastwise timber shipping

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CMA CGM’s revenue up 38.5% in Q3 2024

Will a new Trump Administration end the Clean Ports Program?

Alabama moves into 4th gear

Port of Guam approves STS crane replacement, seeks DoD funding to avoid Chinese suppliers

Pier VIII container terminal secures funding

Montreal strike leads MEA to suspend salary guarantee

BC Ports start lockout

Central American connectivity push

Automating pin-setting for rail operations

Arvato introduces robots for automated unloading