Port of Tilbury and Frontier Agriculture will mark the successful first year of their strategic partnership with the export of 55,000 metric tonnes of wheat, the largest of the season, aboard a Panamax bulk carrier this week.
Forth Ports team take part in Cateran Yomp for The Soldiers’ Charity
This weekend (11-12 June) will see five colleagues from Forth Ports attempt the gruelling 54mile ‘Cateran Yomp’ in Perthshire to raise money for The Soldiers’ Charity.
Cateran Yomp – a military term for a long distance march…
Angels land in Edinburgh for investment summit
Investors from across Europe will come to Edinburgh this week to attend a gathering of European business angel leaders.
Members of the Business Angel Europe Club have been invited to Scotland to hear from LINC Scotland…
Step change for Scotland’s students
Building on the Scotland CAN DO agenda, John Swinney, Deputy First Minister and Cabinet Secretary for Education, announced the collaboration between Converge Challenge, Scottish Institute for Enterprise (SIE)…
Scottish pharma company raises £1.3m for cancer gene therapy drug development
Scottish Borders-based pharmaceutical company, Ryboquin Ltd, has raised £1.3m of new funding that will allow the company to take its cancer gene therapy product one step closer to undergoing clinical trials…
Dundee global learning company first on board with new FlyBe route
Insights, the Dundee-based learning and development company, are linking even more closely to their Amsterdam team with the new FlyBe Dundee to Amsterdam route which launched today (23 May). Wilco Vlaar, Insights’…
New RSA Fellowships support six to unleash their creativity
Scotland’s most ambitious advocates for social change have been recognised in the first ever RSA Fellowship awards for people with learning disabilities.
The initiative led by the Scottish Commission for Learning Disability (SCLD)
Forth Ports’ Harbour Master wins prestigious Scottish Engineering award
Forth Ports is celebrating the success of Harbour Master Ashley Nicholson who won the prestigious Scottish Engineering / Incorporation of Hammermen of Glasgow Award 2016 for the role she played in managing the marine operations…
Converge Challengers announced
Scotland’s leading company creation competition and start up development programme for staff, students, and recent graduates of Scottish Universities announces its top 60 ‘Converge Challengers’ for 2016.
Tilbury’s LCT welcomes eight new straddles today
London Container Terminal in Tilbury today (11th May) welcomed the arrival of their eight new Kalmar straddle carriers aboard the specialist vessel the BBC Nordland as part of the port’s growing container business.
Grangemouth invests in three new straddle carriers
Scotland’s container terminal, within the Port of Grangemouth, continues its multi-million pound investment programme with the announcement today (10 May) of the purchase of three new straddle carriers. The new ESC340 straddle carriers…
Macfarlane Group PLC AGM Statement
Macfarlane Group PLC today publishes its Annual General Meeting Statement covering 2016 to date. At the AGM in Glasgow, Graeme Bissett , Chairman of Macfarlane said: “Our Group sales in the year to date have grown by 3%…
