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13.09.2022

Global Ship Lease's figures and charters

London-based Global Ship Lease recently reported its latest results. On 30 August 2022, the average remaining term of the company’s charters was 3.1 years on a teu-weighted basis. Contracted revenue on the same basis was USD 2.4...

13.09.2022

NAS and Air Arabia Maroc ink CGSA agreement

Air Arabia Group’s Morocco based airline, Air Arabia Maroc (3O) has appointed Network Airline Services (NAS), effective 1 September 2022, as its cargo general sales agent (CGSA) in Europe for all cargo other than human remains....

13.09.2022

Alstef Group picks Hans Willems

As part of its strategic development in Benelux, Alstef Group, an expert in automated turnkey solutions, is welcoming Hans Willems to its intralogistics sales team. Willems started his career as a business developer for...

13.09.2022

Round-the-clock in Abu Dhabi

After Dubai, Scan Global Logistics (SGL) is opening its second office in UAE in Abu Dhabi in 2022. Located in the Abu Dhabi Airport free zone, the new office is equipped with a dual licence for a free zone and a mainland company...

13.09.2022

From strength to strength in 20 years

Exactly twenty years ago, Innofreight started with two people in a small office in the old business park in Bruck an der Mur, Austria. Today, more than 130 employees are working at six international locations. One of the...

13.09.2022

"Curiosity of the Day"

From 1922 until 2012, the World Meteorological Organisation asserted that the highest temperature ever recorded on Earth was 57.7 °C (136 °F) in El Azizia, in Libya, 100 years ago today, on 13 September 1922.

13.09.2022

Matternet M2 drone flies ahead

As the first non-military unmanned aircraft, the Matternet M2 drone has achieved type certification by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA). This gives Matternet, a developer of urban drone delivery systems, a competitive...

13.09.2022

Navigation from space

The Grimaldi Group has received the green light for the GSAB (Grimaldi Satellite Assisted Berthing) project. The European Space Agency (ESA) has assigned the group a navigation innovation and support programme (Navisp) with the...

13.09.2022

Jamal Salem Al Dhaheri to lead Abu Dhabi Airports

Abu Dhabi Airports, operator of five airports in the nation’s capital, has appointed H.E. Jamal Salem Al Dhaheri as managing director and CEO. A seasoned business executive, Al Dhaheri is taking over from Shareef Hashim Al...

13.09.2022

Strike could cost billions per day

A US nationwide rail service interruption by a freight-rail strike could cost more than USD 2 billion per day of a shutdown, according to the latest report published by the Association of American Railroads (AAR). The report...

13.09.2022

More space & more activities for Acito

Acito Logistics, which is headquartered in Weil am Rhein (Germany), has added 2,000 sqm of logistics space to its warehouse in Efringen-Kirchen, only a few kilometres away. After a ten month construction period, the...

Felix for Future

Ein Familienunternehmen wird 70 Jahre alt. 1952 wurde die Firma Felix Transport AG als W. Felix Transporte in Zwingen (CH) gegründet. Seit 1976 ist Hanspeter Felix im Betrieb tätig, den sein Vater Walter gegründet hatte. Nun...

12.09.2022

Zero-emission locos for the Betouwe route

Northrail is leasing four "zero-emission" shunting and medium-haul locomotives of Vossloh’s new DM 20-EBB model to the Dutch rail transport company RTB Cargo. The locomotives are part of the framework purchase agreement...

12.09.2022

Swissterminal’s fiftieth anniversary

In the beginning there is always the founder, sometimes a pioneer - and next to him a strong partner. In the case of the family business Swissterminal, it was Alex Mayer in 1972 who foresaw that containers would cause a...

12.09.2022

Empties take their toll

A new container yard for empties has opened in the Port of Shanghai. It is intended to help the Shanghai International Port Group (SIGP) tackle the flow of empty containers. Located in the Yangshan Special Comprehensive...

12.09.2022

A new GDP facility at Indianapolis

Kuehne + Nagel is building a new multi-client and GDP compliant facility close to Indianapolis International Airport in USA. The site will have a surface of 15,500 sqm and be integrated into the forwarder's healthcare network....

12.09.2022

Craiss triples transport volume in Poland

Craiss Logistyka is expanding its services for a long-standing client, a major international manufacturer of commercial vehicles headquartered in Germany. Craiss’ Polish branch, based in Jasin in Poznań county, won the...

12.09.2022

DB Schenker promotes Mike Fahy

Global logistics provider DB Schenker has promoted Mike Fahy as the new chief executive officer for DB Schenker, Region Americas, effective 1 September 2022. He has served as the executive vice president of contract logistics,...

12.09.2022

Major renewable energy certificate deal for Hactl

Hong Kong Air Cargo Terminals Limited (Hactl), the SAR’s largest independent handler, has signed an agreement to purchase renewable energy certificates (RECs) from CLP Power Hong Kong Limited equating to 45.9 GWh of power...

12.09.2022

Gdansk to open new deep water quay in 2024

DCT Gdansk, the container terminal in the Baltic Sea and a member of the PSA Group, ordered ten new semi-automated rubber tire gantry cranes (ARTG) from Konecranes. The company has also committed itself to retrofitting its...