UK P&I Club’s is to appoint new management team positions for several key positions within its Singapore branch and London Branch effective from policy year start of February 20, 2012. Steve Randall will take up the post of commercial director for Asia on the board of Shipowners’ Asia Pte Ltd, which manages the Singapore branch of the Club. His appointment will mirror Simon Swallow’s as commercial director on the board…

Dubai’s DP World is telling shippers that its London Gateway (LG) terminal will knock Hong Kong’s Hutchison-owned Felixstowe terminal from its high perch as the Britain’s No 1 container handling facility in years to come. Speaking at a recent Logistics Leaders Network event, London Gateway commercial chief Peter Ward said his DP World facility would prove more attractive than Felixstowe which is 70 miles from London and exposed to severe…

THE UK Competition Commission has ordered airport operator BAA to sell London Stansted airport, the second largest air cargo hub in the country and fourth biggest in all categories. The London Heathrow owner, challenging Amsterdam in freight volumes at 1.49 million tons in 2011, was forced to dispose of London Gatwick for US$2.4 billion to US-based Global Infrastructure Partners in 2009 and is in the process of selling Edinburgh, one…

The European Union is forcing Britain to accept heavy-weight trucks on UK roads which will cost the country billions in infrastructure unless the government steps in, according to the Freight on Rail lobby. The proposal for harmonising weights across Europe would see a reduction in CO2 emissions already led by Sweden use of 25-metre long 60 tonners for more than 50 years, said Road Haulage Association Jack Semple, who backs…