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21.01.2020

Throughput in Spanish ports increased in 2019

According to the latest data until and including November 2019 released by the Spanish state ports, the Puertos del Estado handled a total of 508.8 million t of merchandise in the first 11 months of 2019. This is a rise of 1.1%...

21.01.2020

New barge crane for Linz port

Linz Service intends to reconstruct its terminal in Linz, in the east of Austria, and has mandated Kuenz to supply a new gantry crane. The 120,000 sqm area of Hafen Linz is an important gateway for international freight...

21.01.2020

Setback for the world's biggest cargo hub

In 2019, Hong Kong International Airport’s total cargo throughput dropped 6.1% yoy to 4.8 million t. Vivian Cheung, executive director of airport operations for Hong Kong’s airport authority: "We went through a challenging...

21.01.2020

Bansard increases its efforts to protect the environment

The French logistics services provider Bansard Groupe International attaches great importance to responsible and sustainable company management. As part of its efforts to improve CSR, Bansard has concluded an agreement with the...

21.01.2020

VTL and Palletways call off merger plans

The merger of the networks of the general cargo cooperation Vernetzte-Transport-Logistik (VTL), Fulda and Palletways Germany will not take place. “We both recognised that we could not achieve the synergies and business...

21.01.2020

Warsaw airport expands cargo handling facilities

Warsaw airport, which, according to ACI Europe, handled 89,000 t of air freight in the first eleven months of last year, a 4.9% increase compared to the same period of 2018, has expanded and upgraded its cargo handling...

21.01.2020

MSC extends Caribbean network

MSC Mediterranean Shipping Company will introduce a new service between Progreso, Mexico and Freeport, Bahamas. The new service will commence on 7 February 2020. This launch will extend MSC’s network in the Gulf of Mexico and...

21.01.2020

State-of-the art equipment for UP-served rail facility

Silica producer Sands has started a reconstruction project to optimise and consolidate processing assets. The company has also completed the purchase of its Diaz rail loading facility in Arkansas, USA. The plant is served by US...

21.01.2020

Awards for the British logistics industry

Ade Adepitan, a Paralympian and broadcaster, has revealed the winners of the British international freight association’s freight service awards 2019. The winners of the eight general, modal and specialist categories in the...

21.01.2020

Parcel deliveries in Switzerland reach record high

With a throughput of more than 148 million, the Swiss Postal Service delivered a record quantity of parcels in 2019, which amounts to a 7.3% increase compared to the previous year (138 million). On the other hand, the quantity of...

21.01.2020

More cyber security at the port of Ashdod

The Mediterranean port of Ashdod will start pilot trials of the Port-Dome cyber protection software on several systems in early 2020, after which the technology will be installed across the port’s entire network. This will...

21.01.2020

More pharma options at Seoul Incheon airport

CSafe Global widens its operational footprint with the opening of an enlarged and expanded service centre facility at Seoul Incheon airport. The new facility of the US provider of active temperature-controlled container...

21.01.2020

UK forwarder takes delivery of 21 new-generation Actros

The growing partnership with Mercedes-Benz Trucks ‘came of age’ recently when Fowler Welch in UK took delivery of 21 tractor units from the award-winning Actros range. The latest Mercedes-Benz tractors operate from Fowler...

21.01.2020

New faces for Aircargo Club Germany

Achim Martinka, VP Germany at Lufthansa Cargo, and Benjamin Riege, marketing director at Riege Software, have joined the executive committee of Aircargo Club Germany. They were elected unanimously at the club’s annual general...

21.01.2020

Circle helps to upgrade ports in Pakistan

Circle, the Italian developer and provider of automation and digitalisation solutions for port operators and intermodal logistics, will contribute almost EUR 40,000 to the Pakistan trade facilitation project designed by the World...

21.01.2020

“Curiosity of the Day”

An elephant can detect the presence of water at distances of over 20 km.

Forderung nach Frankreich-Korridor

Die Schweizer Schienen-Operateure benötigen auch nach der Neat-Vollendung Subventionen für den alpenquerenden Kombiverkehr. Um die Situation der Schiene auf der europäischen Nord-Süd-Achse langfristig zu verbessern, wünschen sie...

20.01.2020

Alitalia extends GSSA contract to Germany

ATC Aviation, which already acts as Alitalia’s exclusive cargo representative in Canada, Chile, Columbia, Peru and Switzerland, has now also won the Cargo GSA contract for Germany. The announcement, which came into effect 15...

20.01.2020

A new way to operate an intermodal yard

Gaining a foothold in the US market is not always the easiest of things. The Austrian company Kuenz has successfully entered the US RTG market, since Norfolk Southern Railway has ordered six Kuenz Freeriders - 11 wide and 1 over...

20.01.2020

Drewry has a less optimistic forecast for 2020

According to the London-based maritime consultancy Drewry’s recently published Container Forecaster report, the outlook for the container shipping market in 2020 remains moderate. Drewry is now anticipating that world container...