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14.04.2023

Switzerland to support CT terminal in Italy

Switzerland aims to further strengthen the railways as an alternative for transporting goods through the Alps. The Federal Office of Transport (FOT) is therefore participating in the construction of a large transhipment terminal...

14.04.2023

Closer to big cargo charter markets

Air Charter Service (ACS) has opened a new office in the centre of Mexico City, the aircraft charter specialist's 12th operation in the Americas and 30th in total. Richard Thompson (left), president ACS Americas: "This...

14.04.2023

Heiko Krebs joins Kombiverkehr

Kombiverkehr’s administrative board has named Heiko Krebs, an authorised officer of the company’s operations department, as a second managing director. He assumed his new role on 13 April 2023. This appointment also entails a...

14.04.2023

Cambodia orders its first mobile harbour crane

Sihanoukville Autonomous Port (PAS), the operator of Cambodia's sole deep-water port, which is owned and run by the government, has ordered two Generation 6 Konecranes Gottwald mobile harbour cranes. Cambodia’s first-ever mobile...

14.04.2023

Drone deliveries for Royal Mail

In Q2/2023, Skyports Drone Services will launch the Orkney I-Port operation, a fully electric drone logistics project created in partnership with Royal Mail, Orkney Islands Council Harbour Authority and Loganair. The project...

14.04.2023

RCG: new train to link Budapest with Rijeka

Quick connections to the northern Adriatic: ÖBB Rail Cargo Group (RCG) is expanding its Transnet with a new transport solution between Hungary and the northern Adriatic. The port of Rijeka (Croatia) is an important transhipment...

14.04.2023

CBP records 400% increase in marijuana seizures

US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officers in Indianapolis seized 525 parcels containing marijuana between 1 October 2022 and 31 March 2023. This time last year during the same timeframe officers only saw 105 packages...

14.04.2023

More than 6 million teu in Mumbai

Jawaharlal Nehru Port Authority (JNPA) registered its highest ever throughput of 6.05 million teu in 2022-23. India’s largest container port located in Mumbai had crossed 6 million teu on 30 March 2023. During the corresponding...

14.04.2023

ID Logistics picks Martin Whitcombe

Contract logistics provider ID Logistics has appointed Martin Whitcombe as global director of e-commerce, FMCG and fashion market development. With over thirty years of professional experience, Whitcombe will bring his...

14.04.2023

Swiss hyperloop team wins innovation prize

At the 2023 "Not-A-Boring Competition" in Bastrop, Texas, at the beginning of April, the "Swissloop Tunnelling" team from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) in Zurich was awarded the top prize for...

14.04.2023

Enhancing inland coverage of Nigeria

In addition to the current intermodal network serving its locations in Nigeria, CMA CGM is now introducing a new land transport project through the Nigerian port of Lekki. Scheduled to open at Lekki in May 2023, this new...

14.04.2023

Aercap to lease BCFs to PT Rusky Aero Indonesia

Aercap Holdings has signed lease agreements for two 737-800BCF (Boeing converted freighters) with newly launched cargo airline PT Rusky Aero Indonesia, operating as Raindo United Services. Attending the announcement ceremony...

14.04.2023

EV Cargo hires Jason Lin

Global freight forwarding, supply chain and technology company EV Cargo has appointed Jason Lin as vice president – commercial, Greater China. Lin started his career with Maersk Line in Hong Kong and in Canada, where he...

14.04.2023

"Curiosity of the Day"

According to his private secretary, the Italian writer Gabriele D'Annunzio (1863-1936) owned at least 70 coats.

14.04.2023

Free logistics space near Wilhelmshaven

The Jade Weser Port Freight Village (GVZ) in direct vicinity to the Eurogate Container Terminal in Wilhelmshaven in northern Germany, offers 1,500,000 sqm of high-quality business locations for logistics properties. The plots...

14.04.2023

Conversion to e-trucks requires rethink

The BLG Group is testing the use of a Volvo e-tractor for inner-city truck deliveries in Falkensee near Berlin (Germany). The deployment of e-trucks would bring the BLG Group a big step closer to its goal of being climate-neutral...

14.04.2023

Tell your children how the wind blows

Nantes Saint-Nazaire Développement, the French association Wind Ship, which has helped to advance French wind propulsion projects since 2019, and the International Windship Association (IWSA) have launched a new youth poster...

14.04.2023

Philippines starts "stinky fruit" flights to China

A first batch of fresh Philippine durian, following the bilateral agreement sealed during the state visit of president Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr. in Beijing early January this year, was flown from Davao to China last week. The...

13.04.2023

Sea-air service to 70 African destinations

Aero Africa group is expanding its operations in China and UAE by launching a new sea-air combined transport product from Asia to 70 African destinations via Dubai. The new SAS product (sea air solution) provides specific...

13.04.2023

La Rochelle Port upgrades community system

The port community of La Rochelle Pallice is migrating to "S)One", the latest generation of the port community system developed by Soget. This collaboration dates back to 2011 and is now being adapted to the growth of...