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12.02.2020

Shipping Australia welcomes Jim Wilson

Shipping Australia has appointed international maritime and transport journalist Jim Wilson as its new policy and communications executive. Wilson is already known to the Australian freight industry from his days as the editor of...

12.02.2020

Extending UAE's rail network

Etihad Rail in the UAE has launched the construction works for package A of stage two of the pan-Emirates railway network that is being developed by the rail company. The corridor of package A will run for 139 km from Ghuweifat...

12.02.2020

Qatar Airways not allowed to help

While Alitalia's fate still hangs in the balance, the final curtain has fallen for another Italian airline with ambitions for long-haul flights: yesterday, 11 February 2020, the shareholders' meeting of Air Italy (Alisarda with...

12.02.2020

Ceva Logistics embarks on electric vehicle trial in London

Ceva Logistics in the UK is using its urban distribution hub at Dartford, Kent to undertake an electric vehicle trial for trucks delivering into central London. It also has become the first partner in Tevva’s electrify...

12.02.2020

UPS expands Mexican air network

UPS has launched a new flight for export shipments out of Querétaro, Mexico, featuring an A300 aircraft with 55 t of cargo capacity. The investment in UPS’s global logistics network gives Mexican businesses more opportunity to...

12.02.2020

Pushing women's careers in shipping

A programme to support the qualification of female seafarers has been launched by the Palau International Ship Registry (PISR). Special emphasis is given to the certificates of competency (CoC), certificates of proficiency (CoP)...

12.02.2020

Jörg Sommer leaves Streetscooter

Jörg Sommer, CEO of Streetscooter, which is headquartered in Aachen, Germany, is leaving the company to pursue new opportunities. His departure, which is effective immediately, is by mutual agreement and on the best of terms. The...

12.02.2020

CO2 reductions and business expansion go hand in hand

Lidl's new green fleet in Italy includes five biomethane-fuelled vehicles. The trucks are a result of the company's collaboration with IVECO, LC3 Trasporti and Edison. Lidl will use the vehicles to restock points of sale that are...

12.02.2020

New logistics facility at German-French border

Panattoni is building a new hub comprising 25,000 sqm of logistics and industrial areas in Kleinblittersdorf (Saarland, Germany). On a former factory site, the company is planning two construction phases. In 2019, the...

12.02.2020

Outstanding year for the port of Toronto

The port of Toronto enjoyed a good year in 2019, handling 2.3 million t (MMT) of cargo. This load marked a peak over the last 15 years. The number of ships visiting the port increased by a significant 20%, with 213 ships calling...

12.02.2020

IFS certificate for Dachser Schweiz

The air freight division at Dachser Spedition Schweiz now also complies with the requirements of the IFS logistics standards for foodstuffs. The company passed the test "at a higher lever" thanks to its excellent audit...

12.02.2020

Boeing secures three new B737-800BCF conversions

BBAM and Boeing have announced that the commercial jet aircraft lessor has ordered three B737-800 Boeing converted freighters (BCF), underscoring the growing e-commerce and express sector. With one of the world’s biggest...

12.02.2020

Bangladesh to improve intermodal connections

The Asian Development Bank has approved USD 42 million in project readiness financing (PRF) for a facility to help improve transport connectivity and promote multimodal transport in Bangladesh. Transport demand is expanding...

12.02.2020

Fresh structures for Mitsubishi Logisnext Europe

Mitsubishi Logisnext Europe (MLE), member of the global Mitsubishi Logisnext Group, is accelerating the optimisation of its material handling and logistics solution offers through further group integration in Europe. As of...

12.02.2020

“Curiosity of the Day”

Cleopatra lived closer in time to the Moon landing than to the construction of the Great Pyramid of Giza.

11.02.2020

Moving 80 HGV trips off the roads every day

GB Railfreight (GBRf) in UK has resumed services from Cricklewood to Calvert. The railfreight operator operates services five times a week between S Walsh and Sons waste transfer station, off Brent Terrace at Cricklewood, to...

11.02.2020

Two ATR 72-500F for intra-Indonesian transport

Angkasa Pura Logistik, a subsidiary of Angkasa Pura Airports, has signed a lease agreement with Pelita Air Service for two ATR 72-500F which will be used to transport cargo with round trip routes from Jakarta to Balikpapan and...

11.02.2020

Tapa honours police of Saxony-Anhalt

The transported asset protection association (Tapa) has honoured the EU Project Cargo initiative implemented by the state criminal office (AKA) of Saxony-Anhalt (Germany) for its contribution to reducing cargo thefts in Europe...

11.02.2020

Container streams struck by coronavirus

In its Sunday Spotlight 449, the Copenhagen (Denmark)-based maritime consultancy and analyst Sea-Intelligence pointed out "the rapid escalation in blank sailings" and further consequences that the coronavirus has for...

11.02.2020

Unsinn takes over HRB Heinemann

With retroactive effect from 1 January 2020, Unsinn Fahrzeugtechnik from Holzheim (Bavaria, Germany) takes over the majority share of HRB Heinemann, which is headquartered in Nassenwil (Canton Zurich, Switzerland). With this...