Archives: July 2008 cargo news
The News stories below are cargo / freight related stories which made the headlines in July 2008 (other archived months are shown at the bottom of the page).
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31/07/08 - Dock chemical store plan rejected
- Courtesy of The BBC (www.bbc.co.uk)Plans to store 2,500 tonnes of a potentially hazardous chemical at a dockyard in Kent have been rejected.
Arcelor Mittal Kent Wire had applied to Medway Council for approval to store ammonium nitrate at Chatham Docks.
The council decided storing the farm fertiliser, which can also be used in bombs, posed too great a risk. ukimports.org
29/07/08 - Amendment to Volume 3, Appendix C11
- Courtesy of HM Revenue and Customs (www.hmrc.gov.uk)WITH EFFECT FROM 1ST AUGUST 2008 PLEASE REPLACE DOCUMENT CODE A021 AND THE DESCRIPTION SET AGAINST IT WITH THE FOLLOWING NEW DOCUMENT CODE/DESCRIPTION:
A022 ‘CERTIFICATE OF AUTHENTICITY ‘BASMATI RICE’ FOR EXPORT TO THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITY’. ukimports.org
25/07/08 - Hole forces Qantas plane to land
- Courtesy of The BBC (www.bbc.co.uk)A passenger plane en route from London to Melbourne has made an emergency landing in the Philippines after a large hole appeared in its fuselage.
Qantas Airways said its Boeing 747-400, with 346 passengers and 19 crew, diverted to Manila shortly after leaving Hong Kong and landed safely.
Engineers are investigating what caused the hole - about 2.5m to 3m in diameter - that led to cabin pressure problems.
An airport official said passengers looked scared and some were sick.
Airport authority spokesman Octavio Lina said part of the flooring near the affected section gave way, exposing some of the cargo below, and part of the ceiling also collapsed. ukimports.org
25/07/08 - Fire crews tackle warehouse blaze
- Courtesy of The BBC (www.bbc.co.uk)Firefighters are damping down after a large blaze broke out at a warehouse.
Ten fire appliances and about 70 firefighters attended the scene at Asfordby Storage and Haulage in Saxby Road, Melton Mowbray during the night.
An aerial ladder is still being used to pour two jets of water on the fire and firefighters have also been working to cool down an acetylene cylinder.
Leicestershire Fire and Rescue Service said no-one was injured in the blaze and the area had been evacuated. ukimports.org
23/07/08 - Rail upgrade for expanding port
- Courtesy of The BBC (www.bbc.co.uk)Work to improve rail links to the expanding Port of Felixstowe has been given consent.
The Suffolk container port, already the UK's largest, is to double in size after expansion plans are completed in two years' time.
The Felixstowe Branch Line will have a double track to allow for the extra freight coming in and out of port.
The port said the resulting extra trains will take "hundreds of thousands of vehicles off the region's roads". ukimports.org
23/07/08 - New freight rail link under way
- Courtesy of The BBC (www.bbc.co.uk)The construction of a new freight link between the Port of Liverpool and the West Coast Main Line is under way with the laying of the tracks.
The £7.9m project involves reopening a disused stretch of railway between Olive Mount and Edge Lane junctions.
The line, about a quarter of a mile long, has been closed for 20 years.
According to Neil Scales from Merseytravel, the new freight line will help reduce the number of lorries using the local road network.
The scheme is due to be completed by the end of the year. ukimports.org
23/07/08 - Airport ditches Concorde for newer model
- Courtesy of The BBC (www.bbc.co.uk)For decades holidaymakers and business travellers entered Heathrow Airport in London under the nose of the Concorde.
Now the supersonic jet has been replaced on the roundabout at the airport entrance by a model of the world's largest passenger plane, the Airbus A380. ukimports.org
21/07/08 - Government will decide on runway
- Courtesy of The BBC (www.bbc.co.uk)A decision over whether to allow a second runway at Stansted Airport will be taken by the government after a public inquiry.
Communities and Local Government (CLG) Secretary Hazel Blears has called in operator BAA's expansion plan.
A CLG spokesman said the step was taken due to the scale of the proposal.
Campaign group CO2, comprising councils opposing the new runway, said the BAA plans would almost triple annual passenger numbers to 70 million. ukimports.org
14/07/08 - Heathrow 'could get third runway'
- Courtesy of The BBC (www.bbc.co.uk)Heathrow Airport could get a third runway, a minister has indicated.
The government is due to make a decision on the future development of the UK's largest airport by the end of the year. ukimports.org
03/07/08 - New Port Cranes Now Commissioned
- Courtesy of Felixstowe TV (www.felixstowetv.co.uk)Three brand new ship-to-shore container cranes which arrived at the Port of Felixstowe 4 months ago are now fully operational, the Port announced today.
With the ability to extend over 22 containers across, the 'ultra post-Panamax' quayside gantry cranes are amongst the largest in the world. With twin-lift capability and heavy lift capacity of 85 tonnes, they take the total number of quayside cranes serving the Port to 29. ukimports.org
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