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“Operation Stack”: UK’s solution to frequent French strikes

  • French port workers strike so often in England that the British government has had to launch a truck parking scheme called “Operation Stack.”
  • Operation Stack sees lorries queued on British motorways before crossing the Channel to France
  • Brexit will likely intensify the need for Operation Stack as lines will stretch even longer to enter or exit the European Union.
  • A new procedure, devised to address the post-Brexit world, has been christened “Operation Brock.”

The UK economy took a hit of £250...

http://container-news.com/operation-stack-uk-solution-frequent-french-strikes/

A Remembrance Day to remember

This year’s Remembrance Day was beyond the usual one which we normally attend, write or simply think of… This year’s marks a century since the Armistice, when the guns fell silent at 11:00 GMT, hence its special significance, bringing the end of the war, the end of The Great War –  World War One in 1918 as we know same today since we have also gone through the terrible and despicable Second one… John Faraclas reports:

The Shipping Industry honours the event at the Merchant Navy Memorial in Tower...

http://www.allaboutshipping.co.uk/2018/11/11/a-remembrance-day-to-remember/

Jobs of the future to be keynote focus at Bermuda’s London forum

Hamilton, Bermuda, November 7, 2018 – The changing nature of work and emergence of new jobs in the future will be the focus of the keynote speech at this month’s Bermuda Executive Forum in London.

Organised by the Bermuda Business Development Agency (BDA), the multi-industry November 27 forum at ME London will feature as its lunchtime keynote speaker Euan Davis, Associate Vice President of the Center for the Future of Work Europe at Cognizant Technology Solutions. Davis, an expert in the...

http://www.allaboutshipping.co.uk/2018/11/07/jobs-of-the-future-to-be-keynote-focus-at-bermudas-london-forum/

Greek government deep in talks to encourage cruise-ship sector

Tourism minister Elena Kountoura.

Greek government deep in talks to encourage cruise-ship sector

By James Brewer

Greece has confirmed that it wants to establish six new home-ports for cruise ships as part of its drive to expand the thriving tourism industry.

Tourism minister Elena Kountoura said it was “our aim” to have more than six such ports and “we are co-operating with major international cruise lines.” She added: “We work closely with global and European cruise lines to introduce new,...

http://www.allaboutshipping.co.uk/2018/11/05/greek-government-deep-in-talks-to-encourage-cruise-ship-sector/

Leading UK freight forwarder sees increase in Brexit-related warehousing requests

Davies Turner RDC at Dartford in Kent

Davies Turner, the UK’s leading freight forwarder and logistics service provider, is seeing a definite upsurge in enquiries about the availability of warehousing space, driven by customer concerns about the outcome of the Brexit negotiations and the future of UK trade with the EU after March next year.

Previously, the company has seen demand for more warehousing capacity often reduce in the early months of the new year as many retailers require less stock...

http://www.allaboutshipping.co.uk/2018/11/02/leading-uk-freight-forwarder-sees-increase-in-brexit-related-warehousing-requests/

Klimt/Schiele: Royal Academy shows drawings from the Albertina Museum, Vienna

Klimt, Study for The Three Gorgons.

Klimt/Schiele: Royal Academy shows drawings from the Albertina Museum, Vienna

By James Brewer

Even in sketched outline they are seductive: three turn-of-the-century drawings of the Gorgons, who in versions of the Greek myth are the beautiful but dangerous daughters of the sea god Phorcys. They were drawn in black chalk on packing paper in 1901 by Gustav Klimt as he worked on the Beethoven Frieze which was central to the 14th Vienna Secessionist exhibition in...

http://www.allaboutshipping.co.uk/2018/11/01/klimtschiele-royal-academy-shows-drawings-from-the-albertina-museum-vienna/

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