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16.08.2022

26 forwarders acquired in just eight years

PS Logistics has finalised the acquisition of Noble Trucking and Noble Logistics via its DMT Trucking subsidiary. The price of the transaction was not disclosed. The transaction will further strengthen DMT Trucking’s...

16.08.2022

Overtime in Savannah

Not all ports are effected by strikes and shutdowns. At the beginning of its fiscal year, the US East Coast Georgia Ports (GPA) processed almost 531,000 teu in one month. This July saw a throughput 18% higher than the same month...

16.08.2022

Agility also flourishing

In H1/2022, Kuwait-based Agility achieved a revenue of KD 270.5 million (USD 882 million), an uptick of 22.9%, and a net profit of KD 28.8 million (USD 94 million). Ebitda, which excludes the performance of the GIL business sold...

16.08.2022

Apex Rail welcomes Martin Metz

Martin Metz joined Apex Rail as managing director & partner on 1 August 2022, bringing more than 30 years of experience in the banking industry. Metz previously spent more than 20 years as global head of land transport...

16.08.2022

Good vibes in San Pedro Bay

The Port of Long Beach is keeping the pace. July’s throughput of almost 786,000 teu is just ahead (+0.13%) of the record achieved in the same month last year. While imports declined by 1.8% to 376,000 teu, exports went down...

16.08.2022

Enhancing a niche market

In addition to the transportation of automobiles across Kazakhstan for Toyota Motor, Gebrüder Weiss is now also handling replacement parts distribution and warehousing for the Japanese automaker’s dealers in Almaty. In 2021,...

16.08.2022

WFS adds cargo capacity at Heathrow

Worldwide Flight Services (WFS) has increased its facility footprint at London’s Heathrow Airport after a 30% growth in volumes in the past year. WFS has signed a five-year lease on Building 578 in the airport’s cargo area,...

16.08.2022

Short line rail road starts operation

Kinston Railroad (KNR) recently began operating rail services in North Carolina, USA. The wholly owned subsidiary of Jaguar Transport Holdings acquired leasehold rights to 10 km of track owned by the NC department of...

16.08.2022

Hermes picks Terry McGregor

Hermes Logistics Technologies (HLT) has appointed Terry McGregor as senior product manager as part of a wider strategy to grow the company’s senior leadership team and strengthen technical expertise. McGregor brings 15 years...

16.08.2022

Good prospects for international air cargo

Nashville International airport (BNA) has begun the design phase of "New Horizon". Expected to cost an additional USD 1.4 billion and to be phased in over the next six years with a scheduled completion in late 2028, the...

16.08.2022

Changes at the helm of Rhenus Air & Ocean

Jan Harnisch (left) and Tobias König (right) have been named as the new global Co-CEOs for Rhenus Air & Ocean. Harnisch joined Rhenus as a business development manager in China in 2012 before moving to Singapore to take...

16.08.2022

UPS expands healthcare logistics network

Bomi Group, a multinational healthcare logistics provider with Italian roots, has become the next target of UPS's expansion strategy. The takeover will add temperature-controlled facilities in 14 countries and nearly 3,000 Bomi...

16.08.2022

MOL sets two sorts of sails

MOL will equip a second bulk carrier with a system to harness wind power to propel the vessel. MOL Drybulk will operate the vessel with the “Wind Challenger” hard sail system, which will transport wood pellets for its customer...

16.08.2022

Solution to improve container use

The Azerbaijani transport company ADY Container recently carried out a new intermodal transport from Azerbaidjan to China for aluminium producer Azeraliumium using the Trans-Caspian transport route. The block train runs from...

16.08.2022

"Curiosity of the Day"

A watermelon is not a fruit, it's a vegetable.

15.08.2022

Swiss transport group expands in Turkey

Interrail, a rail transport services provider headquartered in St Gallen (Switzerland), has opened an independent operating company in Turkey. The new company is registered under the name InterRail Uluslararası Nakliyat ve...

15.08.2022

Qatar Airways augments Berlin services

The capital city of Germany, Berlin, is set to benefit from enhanced connectivity by Qatar Airways. The company will raise the number of Berlin services from daily to ten weekly flights, starting on 12 August 2022, and increase...

15.08.2022

Chinese ports coming back

In June 2022, the container throughput index published by the RWI Leibniz Institute for Economic Research and the Institute of Shipping Economics and Logistics (ISL) grew to 126.1 points from 124.9 points (seasonally adjusted)...

15.08.2022

Can’t help growing

It is an investment in the automotive industry from another angle. Effective 9 August 2022, Copenhagen-based Scan Global Logistics (SGL) finalised its ninth acquisition in 2022 by taking over the owner-operated German-American...

15.08.2022

Fully electric medicine transport

Georges Riederer is driving decarbonisation forward. The Swiss transport company has taken delivery of three fully electric E-Tech Masters from Renault. The vehicles will be used primarily to transport medicines over the last...