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A good infrastructure?
...principal operator is James Fisher & Sons. The latter, has a fleet of 18 tankers ranging in size from 3500-13,000 DWT and carries over 8 million mt to UK-wide locations...
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Suckling Transport’s top service award
...and consistently high levels of service. The company services and maintains Suckling Transport’s Shell fleet of tankers based at the Hythe terminal. “We receive great support from all our truck...
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A champagne day for Hull-based Rix
...of the port of Hull. Nowadays, Rix Shipping has a fleet of dry cargo vessels, four coastal tankers, and three estuarial barges. The J.R. Rix & Sons Group is now a...
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Shared deliveries …
...scheduling and routing. In many instances they also provide stock reconciliations and replenishment planning/management. Taking this a stage further, contractors have deployed unbranded or white tankers to facilitate their various...
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Global product support from MechTronic
...outside of the UK. Joe Sakr confirmed: “Lynx is proposing MechTronic FMS on its custom-made, Africa oriented, TOTAL and SHELL validated fuel tankers with the technical support and drivers’ training...
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Clugston Distribution – ambitious growth plans
David Heath is planning for more tankers and double digit growth at Clugston Distribution in 2014 Following a 20% growth in revenue in 2013, a £2.15m fleet expansion and renewal...
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New vapour recovery offers savings
Petrol normally lost to delivery tankers equipped with stage 1B vapour recovery can now be retained says Petroman Environmental Services. “The Total Vapour Solutions system pays for itself, and begins...
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Certas Energy invests £2 million in Dorset depot
...investment to turn a former truck parking location into a large fuel storage depot, Certas Energy is opening a new depot at Holton Heath. Eight delivery tankers will be...
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Sodbury Fuels: celebrating 10 years in business
...depot and one tanker in 2014. Now, we have moved to a larger depot and have six tankers. In 2014, Andy and I were the only members of staff, we...
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Harvest Energy picks innovative solutions
...style management system, which incorporates an automated reporting function to manage fuel efficiency and safe driving. Ann Dawson, managing director, Norbert Dentressangle Tankers, added: “As a major logistics business already...
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Key fuel industry event selling out fast
...as well as first-time exhibitors that include EW Fuel Management Ltd, Commercial Fuel Solutions Ltd, Nursan Trailer, and Road Tankers Armagh Ltd,” added Ken. Dawn Shakespeare, UKIFDA membership and events...
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Airport Energy – making every single litre count
...three fuel stations, 250,000 litres of storage, four tankers and an oil and water truck. Working airside is operations manager, Craig Heggie: “A coil is fitted to the filler neck...
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Attending the fuel event of the year
...UK, Philips 66, RTN, Kingspan Environmental, Hytek, Emco Wheaton, Pen Underwriting incorporating OAMPS, Williams Tankers, Valero Energy and Mabanaft. To register to visit FPS EXPO 2016 for FREE go to www.fpsshow.co.uk...
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Chandlers Oil & Gas – Playing to our strengths
...Pell, today’s business is run by Tom Caunt’s grandsons, David Hindmarch and Nick and Simon Caunt Thirty-four drivers operate the company’s 7 articulated tankers and 27 rigids. Serving customers in...
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Distributor diaries June 2024
...they operate. Craig said: “As a business, we’ve long supported Lincs & Notts Air Ambulance but that has mainly been through displaying their logo on the back of our tankers...
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Driver training: starting out on the right foot
...designed to ensure that all tanker drivers in the UK are trained and assessed to a consistent standard in loading, transporting and offloading petroleum fuel products from road tankers. Ten...
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Rationalisation in Irish oil distribution
...state of the market is primarily one of over supply, both in terms of the excessive number of small operators with tankers, and the number of larger distributors acting as...
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Prices and predictions: how are we faring?
...the attacks on shipping in the Red Sea have decreased and many shippers are now re-routing their tankers around the Cape of Good Hope anyway, so that any extra freight...