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07.12.2022

More capacity for a shortsea service

Sweden’s Stena Line has added capacities to its route between Rosslare and Cherbourg. From June 2023 onwards the ‘Stena Vision’ will change from the Baltic to the Atlantic and second the ‘Stena Horizon’ on the route between...

07.12.2022

Natilus partners with Janicki

Natilus, a US corporation, is producing the world’s first purpose-made autonomous aircraft for airfreight transport. As a big step forward, Natilus has partnered with Janicki for composite part design and fabrication. Through...

07.12.2022

1 of 171 transformers across Russia

RZD Logistics (RZDL) recently delivered a 175 t, 4 m high voltage transformer for a thermal power plant by rail from the St Petersburg region to Krasnoyarsk, central Siberia. Special preparations had to be made for the...

07.12.2022

CDB Aviation picks Jie Chen

The board of directors of CDB Aviation, a wholly-owned Irish subsidiary of China Development Bank Financial Leasing, has selected Jie Chen to become the company’s new chief executive officer. Chen will take the helm in...

07.12.2022

Nosta banking on fresh blood

Nosta Logistics, based in Ladbergen, in the German federal state of Nordrhein-Westfalen, is expanding its contract logistics activities, and to this end has appointed Cordula Brockmeyer as its new chief operating officer for...

07.12.2022

New unit digitalised into the fleet

SITC International, headquartered in Hong Kong, and Yangzijiang Shipbuilding have put a new vessel into operation, the ‘Haifeng Chenming’. The ceremony was largely held online, due to the policy to tackle the...

07.12.2022

De-icing pads to keep parcels moving at MEM

Federal, state, local and business leaders marked the completion of 3.3 million sqft de-icing pads at Memphis International Airport, home to FedEx’s largest air cargo sorting facility. The pads are large enough to de-ice twelve...

07.12.2022

"Curiosity of the Day"

A single frame of an animated scene in the film ‘Avatar’ (2009) had an average render time of 47 hours.

07.12.2022

17 new vehicles in operation

TDW Distribution, a carriers of palletised freight based in Bridgend, Wales (UK), has upgraded its fleet with two new Volvo FE 280 6x2 rigids. The new vehicles will be used to deliver insulation products to central London. In...

07.12.2022

CCA welcomes members and treasurer

The Cool Chain Association (CCA) has welcomed Brussels Airport, Boeing, Singapore Airport Terminal Services (Sats), and Validaide as new members and appointed Miguel Rodríguez, the senior manager of climate control products with...

07.12.2022

Turkish-German integration is on

Early in December the transport and logistics group Gebrüder Weiss (GW) fully integrated the Turkish forwarding company 3S Transport & Logistics, acquired in October 2021, into its country organisation. The firm’s main focus...

07.12.2022

Spaniards on the British coast

The first vessel in a new dedicated service from Spain and Portugal to Great Britain called at Teesport recently. The ‘Kristin Schepers’, a vessel with the capacity to carry 800 containers, arrived from Aveiro (Portugal) to...

06.12.2022

More trains between the Netherlands and Italy

The Swiss intermodal operator Hupac is increasing frequencies on its Rotterdam–Pordenone route. From 12 December the shuttle train between the Netherlands and northern Italy will operate five round trips a week, up from...

06.12.2022

First quay cranes arrive in Papua New Guinea

South Pacific International Container Terminal (SPICT), a unit of International Container Terminal Services Inc (ICTSI) located in the Port of Lae, can now handle larger box ships, thanks to the arrival there of two new...

06.12.2022

Inland service for imports into Oman and Yemen

Maersk and the Omani port of Salalah are launching a new truck service to the Al-Mazyouna free zone in Oman. Designed to facilitate inland services, the new offer includes secure customs clearances and bonded trucking between...

06.12.2022

Deepwater port operational in Timor-Leste

Tibar Bay Deepwater Port, a new port that will improve logistics services in Timor-Leste and develop into a regional transhipment hub, was officially inaugurated recently. The first public-private partnership in the country is in...

06.12.2022

GAC promotes Fredriksson to top echelons

The GAC Group, a shipping, logistics and marine services provider, has appointed Pontus Fredriksson (on the right) as its new group president, with effect from 1 January 2023. Bengt Ekstrand (on the left), who held the...

06.12.2022

Is the trade tide turning?

In an analysis for the G20 countries, based on figures provided by the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), Flexport has reported a 1.1% decline in imports and a 1.3% decline in exports in the third...

06.12.2022

B747-8F engines to be serviced for six more years

Nippon Cargo Airlines (NCA), which operates eight Boeing B747-8Fs, has extended an engine services agreement with GE Aerospace by six years. The ‘rate per flight hour’ deal covers the four GEnx-2B engines on each of NCA’s cargo...

06.12.2022

Ammonia-powered vessel on the horizon

K Line has revealed that it has teamed up with the Itochu Corporation, the Nihon Shipyard Co, the Mitsui E&S Machinery Co and NS United Kaiun Kaisha and together they have obtained approval in principle from the Nippon Kaiji...