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02.12.2022

PAC helps deliver male rhino to Honolulu Zoo

Pacific Air Cargo has been delivering its share of precious cargo this year. On Tuesday, 15 November 2022, the air freight company helped to deliver Kendi, a male rhinoceros to the Honolulu Zoo from Los Angeles. Kendi, an...

02.12.2022

Bolloré Logistics picks Rania Saoud

Bolloré Logistics has appointed Rania Saoud as branch manager of Abu Dhabi, UAE. She has been part of the group for the last four years and previously held the position of key account manager based in Dubai. In her new role...

02.12.2022

Technological transformation in progress

After several years of design and planning, DB Cargo UK’s Class 66 locomotive (66039) will be the first UK freight locomotive to receive the latest version of the European train control system (ETCS). The locomotive has now...

02.12.2022

System Alliance repositioned

Effective 1 January 2023, the general cargo network of the System Alliance Netzwerk will be replaced by the NG Network. The structure of shareholder and partner companies will remain unchanged. The medium-sized freight...

01.12.2022

Europe to Central Asia rail service launched

Nurminen Logistics has started regular railway transport services from Finland and Europe to Kazakhstan in co-operation with Kazakh State Railways (KTZE). The first consignment from Helsinki to Kazakhstan began its journey last...

01.12.2022

Masterplan for King Salman International Airport

His Royal Highness Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman bin Abdulaziz, prime minister and chairman of the Council of Economic and Development Affairs (Ceda), chairman of the Public Investment Fund (PIF), has announced the masterplan...

01.12.2022

K+N: Marc Pfeffer to join management board

The board of directors of the global logistics group Kuehne + Nagel International has appointed Marc Pfeffer to the management board. From January 2023, Pfeffer will join the management board in his capacity as group general...

01.12.2022

Allcargo makes big purchase

The Belgian affiliate of India-based Allcargo has inked an agreement with NBG Logistik Beteiligungs- und Beratungsgesellschaft to acquire 75% of the shares of Fair Trade Schiffahrt, Handel und Logistik. The price of the...

01.12.2022

Negative impact on world trade

In October 2022, the container throughput index published by the RWI Leibniz Institute for Economic Research and the Institute of Shipping Economics and Logistics (ISL) declined sharply to 120.8 points from the 124.2 points...

01.12.2022

GoA4 passes the test

Manufacturer Alstom has demonstrated the highest grade of automation on a shunting locomotive near Breda, the Netherlands, in partnership with Dutch infrastructure manager Pro Rail and Belgian railfreight operator Lineas....

01.12.2022

Deutsche Aircraft promotes Maximilian Fahr

Deutsche Aircraft has appointed Maximilian D. Fahr as vice president, supply chain, effective 1 November 2022. Based in Oberpfaffenhofen near Munich, Fahr will lead and manage the company’s supply chain organisation. Prior to...

01.12.2022

Switzerland adopts European drone regulations

As from 1 January 2023, drone pilots in Switzerland will be subject to new regulations. The joint committee of the bilateral agreement between Switzerland and the European Union on air transport decided on 24 November 2022...

01.12.2022

Forwarder reactivates industrial rail track

Denkinger, a logistics services provider based in Baden-Württemberg, Germany, is shifting more goods from road to rail. The logistics company bought an area with a railway siding for this purpose. However, before the 1.2 km...

01.12.2022

A new project team is on

The German L.I.T. Group has spun off the company's own L.I.T. Solutions to make its own projects more professional. The cross-sector team, which emerged from the business engineering department, currently has eight employees. It...

01.12.2022

Low waters leaving their mark on the Rhine

For 9M/2022, the Swiss Rhine ports (SRH) posted a throughput result that is almost a quarter (24.5%) behind the comparable period in 2021. In addition to the effects of the war in Ukraine, traffic flows were held back by the...

01.12.2022

Iata renews Ceiv Pharma for Portground

The airline umbrella organisation Iata has recertified Portground at Leipzig/Halle Airport with its Ceiv Pharma quality seal. Port Ground belongs to Mitteldeutsche Flughafen and specialises in aircraft and cargo handling....

01.12.2022

Mileway picks Aymeric Canivenc

Mileway, Europe’s largest owner and manager of real estate assets for last mile logistics, has recruited Aymeric Canivenc as country director France. Canivenc, a civil engineer (CNAM) and MRICS with MBA degrees from Neoma...

01.12.2022

"Curiosity of the Day"

Lake Hillier in Australia looks like a giant bubble gum. Various explanations have been suggested for its pink colour. It could be due to certain bacteria in the water, which, however, are harmless to bathers.

01.12.2022

Financial support for booking platform

Since November 2022, Modility, a booking and brokerage platform for combined transport, has been receiving financial backing from the German federal ministry for digital and transport (BMDV) to develop and promote technical...

01.12.2022

Air & logistics united for net zero

It takes two to tango - in carbon reduction as well. Etihad Cargo, the cargo and logistics arm of Etihad Aviation Group, is partnering with DSV Global Transport and Logistics to purchase sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) to...