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26.10.2022

Sustainable air cargo community

The Basel-Mulhouse section of IG Air Cargo Switzerland held its second forum at Basel-Mulhouse Airport yesterday, 25 October 2022. At this first large event since the beginning of the pandemic, almost 50 visitors were able to...

26.10.2022

Iumi council announces changes at the helm

The International Union of Marine Insurance (Iumi) council has appointed a new president, a vice president, a new executive committee and nominating committee members for 2022/23. Frédéric Denèfle, managing director of French...

26.10.2022

Funding for visual fleet management

In USA, investors have shown interest in the Boston-based firm Ship In Systems, a visual fleet management platform. The series A funding was led by Zeev Ventures, a Silicon Valley venture capital firm. Hyperplane and Munich...

26.10.2022

First investment in Valencia

GLP has reached an agreement with Romar Global Care, a manufacturer of healthcare, hygiene, and drugstore products for customers such as the retail chain Lidl, for the construction and lease of a 50,400 sqm building in Spain....

26.10.2022

Bolloré launches phase 2 in Abidjan

On 21 October 2022, Bolloré Transport & Logistics Côte d'Ivoire officially opened the largest logistics base in West Africa. Situated in the Abidjan airport area, it is designed to develop inbound and outbound air...

26.10.2022

On track for more railfreight in Australia

Port Botany in NSW Australia and Patrick Terminals are investing AUD 190 million (EUR 122 million) in extra rail capacity to address long-term demand in a sustainable way, by reducing CO2 emissions and the use of trucks, as trade...

26.10.2022

Britannia promotes Simon Williams

Britannia’s managers continue to strengthen their senior management team, with Simon Williams taking on the role of chief underwriting officer (CUO) of Britannia P&I Club and Mike Hall focusing on his position of deputy chief...

26.10.2022

Louisville: 3,359 fraudulent IDs in one week

For the second time in a week, US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officers in Louisville (KY) discovered 2,265 counterfeit driver’s licences inside an inbound package at Louisville’s Port of entry on 19 October 2022. The...

26.10.2022

Dutch warehouse goes up in the air

Kuehne + Nagel has opened a new logistics centre in Veghel, the Netherlands. The e-distribution facility features a refillable beverage system and is to serve K + N’s customer "Air Up". Kuehne + Nagel already...

26.10.2022

Bimco: recycling facilities under EU regulation

The Baltic and International Maritime Council (Bimco) has insisted on the need to include non-EU recycling facilities, especially from the Indian subcontinent, in the list of authorised facilities of the European Union (EU)....

26.10.2022

"Curiosity of the Day"

The English writer Charles Dickens (1812-1870) insisted on tidiness and order. He couldn't write a line if the table and chair weren't the way he wanted them.

26.10.2022

Fleet management system for SMEs

Impargo has closed its seed funding round with DKV Mobility, the European B2B platform for road transport payments. With the investment, the Berlin (Germany)-based start-up will develop a digital transportation management...

Wo kommen die Lkw-Fahrer her?

Regierungsmassnahmen haben den Lkw-Fahrermangel in Grossbritannien gelindert. Gefahr erkannt, Gefahr gebannt: So jedenfalls sieht es die britische Regierung mit Blick auf die hohe Zahl neu ausgebildeter Lkw-Fahrer seit dem...

25.10.2022

Six charging stations for e-trucks

The first public charging and hydrogen filling station in the Nordic region for heavy goods traffic has opened at the Port of Gothenburg. The station will form a new hub at the port for facilitating the transition from fossil...

25.10.2022

New logistics hub at Lyon airport

UPS has inaugurated a new building at Lyon airport (LYS). With a capacity to sort 3,000 packages per hour, this logistics hub is part of the modernisation project for the platform's cargo area, Cargoport. In line with the...

25.10.2022

MCI: Søren Leth Johannsen to be promoted to CEO

Maersk Container Industry (MCI), a manufacturer of refrigerated containers and a subsidiary of A.P. Moller - Maersk, is promoting current CCO Søren Leth Johannsen to the company’s new CEO, effective November 2022. He will replace...

25.10.2022

It is Werner & Baylor now

In USA, Werner Enterprises has closed its acquisition of FAB9, which trades under the name of Baylor Trucking. The price of the transaction was not disclosed. Founded in 1946, Baylor is a truckload carrier that operates 200...

25.10.2022

Airbaltic carries over 400 t of mail from Ukraine

Since April 2022, the Latvian airline Airbaltic has been providing cargo operations from Kyiv, Ukraine by organising a multimodal mail transportation system in cooperation with Ukrposhta, Ukraine’s national postal service. From...

25.10.2022

A stable 9M/2022 in Rotterdam

351 million t of freight were handled in the Dutch port of Rotterdam in the first nine months of 2022, roughly the same amount as in 9M/2021 (+0.3%). The container segment dropped by 8.6% in total weight and by 4.4% in number...

25.10.2022

Transload rail park opens for business

The US short line rail road Aberdeen Carolina and Western Railway (ACWR) has opened the Midland Logistics Park in Cabarrus County, NC. The cargo handling yard can accommodate 175+ railcars for the transloading, storing,...