Written by SDW Rec A scheme to improve freight train access to Southampton docks could cut tens of thousands of lorry movements in the city each year, according to port bosses. Port chiefs say work to lengthen the tracks at the Port of Southampton’s Solent Rail Terminal has now been completed. The work involved extended tracks at the site
Written by SDW Rec Many Hiring Managers or HR professionals (not just in the shipping & logistics industry) have the mindset that if they work with a number of recruitment agencies, plus advertise themselves at the same time, they will cast their net wide enough and will have a number of high calibre, suitably experienced candidates to recruit from.
Written by SDW Rec On the 5th January 2019, ONE Columba made her maiden call to the Port of Southampton. ONE Columba is the first new build from Ocean network Express to visit the UK, and is deployed on the Alliance FE5 Asia to Europe loop. This pink lady can carry 14000 TEU. This Magenta ship will be the
Written by SDW Rec So, your CV has impressed, you’ve got to interview stage and you really want the job. Now is the time to do the prep work, to make sure you impress on the day of your interview. But what can you do? You’ve read the advert 10 times, so you’ve got a good idea about the
Written by SDW Rec New Southampton shipping line ONE (Ocean Network Express) has had their first magenta monster visit Southampton – the vessel named One Continuity. One Continuity was built in 2008, is 320 metres in length, and weighs in at 90,466 deadweight tons. Ocean Network Express, or ONE, was formed through the combination of Japan’s three biggest container
Written by SDW Rec One of the shipping industry’s leading logistic management software provider, Datafreight – has been acquired by WiseTech Global. With their offices based in Southampton, Datafreight provides integrated logistics solutions, including HMRC customs software, specialist consultancy for UK customs compliance and freight forwarding solutions for all modes of transport, along with warehousing capabilities for managing bonded and
Written by SDW Rec At SDW we we have many clients, some of whom I am also lucky enough to be able to call friends, who have started out as import / export trainees and are now senior managers, directors and CEOs – some of whom are with big global companies, others have started their own business, some of
Written by SDW Rec As many of our clients know, we regularly email details of good candidates who have recently registered with us, to pro-actively present them to potential new employers. We do this every couple of weeks or so, but we normally only select one candidate, when we have many industry professionals from various functions within the shipping
Written by SDW Rec Two brand new giant quay cranes, some of the biggest in the UK and almost as tall as the London Eye, will take up position at Southampton port’s shipping container terminal. The new cranes are part of a major investment by terminal operator and owner DP World, to ensure the port can continue to handle
Written by SDW Rec Hot off the press from The Loadstar, we have just learnt that acquisition hungry Xpediator has just snapped up Southampton based Import Services and there are more expected this year. Yesterday it announced the purchase of Southampton-based Import Services Ltd (ISL) in a deal worth a reported £12m. And it said negotiations for two more takeovers were
