ITJ | Transport Journal Mobile: Home

29.01.2024

A promotion for P.K. Mishra

The Indian Register of Shipping (IRS) has promoted P.K. Mishra, formerly head of operations, to joint managing director, effective 1 January 2024. Joining as a surveyor with IRS in 1998, Mishra rose through the ranks to become...

29.01.2024

AD Ports investing in Jordan

Represented by its digital arm Maqta Gateway, AD Ports Group has signed a shareholders' agreement with the Aqaba Development Corporation (ADC) for the joint venture, Maqta Ayla. This partnership, with Maqta Gateway holding a...

29.01.2024

2023: a solid year for AEI

Aeronautical Engineers (AEI) delivered twenty-eight freighter conversions to leasing and operator customers world-wide in 2023: eighteen B737-800SF freighters, followed by five B737-400SF freighters, two MD-80SF series...

29.01.2024

"Curiosity of the Day"

A Welsh psychologist has calculated that the most depressing day of the year always falls on the Monday of the last week of January.

26.01.2024

New groupage service to Mexico

Unstable rates and capacities in the market for airfreight services from Europe to Mexico have increased the demand for reliable and cost-efficient transport solutions. In response, Cargo-Partner has expanded its airfreight...

26.01.2024

Temperature-controlled rail service launched

The Swiss Inter Rail Group ran its first reefer container transports between Asia and Europe last year. The transport company has now added regular temperature-controlled rail services to its portfolio. Inter Rail uses...

26.01.2024

Zim adds new Asia-Canada route

Zim Integrated Shipping Services has launched the Zim PNW Xpress (ZPX), a new link connecting Asia with Canada and the USA through the Vancouver Gateway. The service began on 21 January 2024, starting from Cai Mep, Vietnam, and...

26.01.2024

Tackling the end-of-year peak

Europa Warehouse reported a 45% increase in orders during December of 2023, attained without the typical stress associated with “peaks”. Sales during the 2023 peak were lower than in previous years due to macroeconomic...

26.01.2024

Representing Turkish Cargo in Central Asia

Globalink Logistics has been contracted by Turkish Cargo as its air cargo sales (ACS) agent in Turkmenistan, "a milestone", the logistics services provider said. Globalink was founded in 1994 and is headquartered in...

26.01.2024

Girteka picks CCO

Mark Mulder has joined the asset-based logistics company Girteka as new chief commercial officer (CCO). He brings a wealth of experience and a proven track record in the transport and logistics sector, having has held leadership...

26.01.2024

Swiss forwarders banking on e-trucks

Renault recently handed over the first battery-electric E-Tech T tractor units to the Swiss haulage companies Hugelshofer and Schöni. The truck manufacturer has delivered 359 electric vehicles in Switzerland since 2020, 40% of...

26.01.2024

Automated storage on 800 sqm

Hongkong Electric has installed an all-new automated storage and retrieval system manufactured by Lödige Industries, a Germany-based systems supplier, in its electric tower in Ap Lei Chau. The new system includes an elevating...

26.01.2024

Ivo Aris follows Peter Mundt

The Nosta Group has appointed Ivo Aris as COO Global Sea & Air. He joined Nosta in September 2023 and assumed his new position on the family-owned company's management board on 1 January 2024. His predecessor Peter...

26.01.2024

A federal grant to grow Gulf gateway

The port of New Orleans has been awarded a USD 226.2 million federal grant for the Louisiana International Terminal (LIT). Part of the infrastructure for rebuilding America programme, the fund complements a previous USD 73.8...

26.01.2024

Clever mode combinations save time and CO2

The combination of different transport modes like road-air, all-road, and road-rail not only has ecological advantages; it also increases speed and cost-effectiveness. Kerry Logistics Network's (KLN) sea-air freight solution...

26.01.2024

Air France KLM to adopt CRA

Accelya, a global provider of software for the airline industry, will supply Air France-KLM with its cargo revenue accounting (CRA) solution, to process and optimise the airline’s cargo billing, settlement and accounting...

26.01.2024

A pledge to simplify tracking

Jaguar Freight Services is adopting a new emissions measurement and reporting platform to provide its customers with more precise freight footprint data. Pledge’s solution enables users to comply with scope 3 emissions reporting...

26.01.2024

Regular train service between Far East and Penza

Transcontainer and Stevedoring Holding Global Ports (both part of Delo-Group) have introduced a service for transporting imports from the Far East to Penza, 625 km southeast of Moscow. Containers arrive from China at the...

26.01.2024

Detq: full speed ahead

After doubling its worldwide workforce in the seven years between 2016 and 2023, Dteq Transport Engineering Solutions is now hiring new executives in Indonesia, Saudi Arabia, the UAE and the USA. Hagen Hennig (left), technical...

26.01.2024

'Sider Harmony' joins Nova fleet

Nova Marine Carriers, a Swiss Lugano-based shipping company, has added the 'Sider Harmony’' a 38,593 dwt handymax vessel, to its fleet. Originally built in 2019 and previously named 'Iris Harmony', this vessel was acquired from a...