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13.12.2019

Project forwarding award for Deugro

Lloyd’s Loading List honoured Deugro at the global freight awards 2019 ceremony. For the company’s implementation of the Liwa Plastics Industries Complex (PIC) Project, Deugro took home the first-place award in the project...

13.12.2019

ONE takes another step towards digitalisation

ONE makes digital and mutually enforceable contracts part of its business environment. The shipping group joins a number of carriers that use the platform NYSHEX. Seven of the major global ocean carriers are already on board,...

13.12.2019

Ethiopian Airlines next week, next year

Starting next Monday, 16 December 2019, Ethiopian Airlines will operate flights to Houston, TX, three times per week. The fourth most populous city in the USA and the world's largest concentration of healthcare and research...

13.12.2019

New head for Britannia’s Greek Office

Britannia P&I Club has announced that Konstantinos Samaritis will be taking over as head of its office in Greece with effect from 1 January 2020. Samaritis is a qualified Greek lawyer and accredited mediator. He joined...

13.12.2019

DHL tests cargo bikes in New York

DHL is launching its cubicycle in New York City. As part of a trial programme the company is testing the deployment of up to eight cargo bicycles, in order to take the weight off road traffic and reduce air and noise...

13.12.2019

“Curiosity of the Day”

Friday the thirteenth has been considered an unlucky day only since the beginning of the 20th century. It occurs at least once and at most three times a year.

13.12.2019

Switzerland: efficient railfreight even on the last mile

It is a stone’s throw, the service the Swiss railfreight company SBB Cargo started to run for Feldschlösschen recently. The distance from the brewery’s headquarters in Rheinfelden in Argovia to Rickenbach in Solothurn is about 40...

13.12.2019

Another generation of MOL vessels

The Tokyo-based Japanese carrier MOL is ordering two new bulk carriers from Oshima Shipbuilding. The so-called 'EeneX' series was designed in pursuit of the best possible coal carrier for electric power companies in Japan. The...

Öl-Sucher zählen auf Bourbon

Das französische Logistikunternehmen unterstützt ein Explorationsprojekt von Total in Namibia mit einer Vielzahl von Dienstleistungen.

12.12.2019

New boost for rail logistics

In Germany, Duisport and Cargo Beamer have joined forces to plan eco-friendly supply chains from ramp to ramp. The project centres on Cargo Beamer’s first wagon park in Duisburg, which offers automated cargo handling for...

12.12.2019

Kerry Logistics opens new office in Bahrain

Kerry Logistics is deepening its presence in the Middle East by setting up a new office in Bahrain and opening a new bonded logistics facility in Dubai (UAE), in order to extend its footprint and enhance its service capabilities...

12.12.2019

Authorities support Hong Kong's cargo hub status

To reinforce Hong Kong International Airport (HKIA)’s competitiveness and its global status as one of the largest air cargo hubs (2018: 5.1 million t), the Airport Authority Hong Kong (AA) supports carriers to introduce the...

12.12.2019

Arcbest board director to retire and new member added

The American logistics company Arcbest announced that William M. Legg will retire from the board of directors in 2020 and that one new director has been added. The new director is Fredrik J. Eliasson, whose term began on 5...

12.12.2019

Is DB Cargo facing radical restructuring?

The Deutsche Bahn (DB) is considering how to make its loss-making subsidiary DB Cargo profitable again, the logistics consultancy HDS reports, referring to information from the news agency Reuters. According to the report, the...

12.12.2019

Successful feasibility test on French waterways

A feasibility test for intermodal cement transport was recently conducted by the company Eqiom. Starting from its production site near Rouen (France), the loads were transported to customers in Ile-de-France via the multimodal...

12.12.2019

Aegean's second new Cyprus route

From today, 12 December 2019, the Greek airline Aegean will connect Athens with Pafos (Cyprus) with two weekly scheduled flights throughout the year, with the possibility of adding a third flight during the peak season, thereby...

12.12.2019

Panattoni hands over facility to dadada

Panattoni has handed over a logistics centre in Euskirchen (North Rhine Westphalia, Germany) to the logistics provider dadada. Dadada finished the preparations for putting the centre into operation in November 2019. It now...

12.12.2019

Scannell Properties strengthens European team

The estate development and investment company Scannell Properties has hired Geoffrey Pizzanelli, who will move from AEW to Scannell in January 2020 and assume the position of capital deployment director for Europe and UK. In...

12.12.2019

Geodis will distribute US-made hockey sticks in Europe

The USA-based high-end sports equipment company TRUE Sports has chosen Geodis Netherlands as its European logistics partner. The companies already have a multi-year partnership in the United States and are now reinforcing their...

12.12.2019

Hapag-Lloyd enlarges its digital customer offerings

The new digital dashboard of the Hamburg-based carrier Hapag-Lloyd is called the Hapag-Lloyd Navigator. With this launch, the shipping line´s customers are able to get an overview of their individual bookings including the...