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02.06.2022

Six honourees for Maritime Hall of Fame

The Maritime Association of the Port of New York and New Jersey has inducted six industry leaders into its International Maritime Hall of Fame. The prestigious awards were presented at The Lighthouse at Chelsea Piers in New York...

02.06.2022

Swiss cross joins birds

Swiss Worldcargo is entering the joint business agreement signed in 2016 which sees its "sisters" Lufthansa Cargo and Cathay Pacific cooperating closely on international lanes via their hubs, while the handling of cargo...

02.06.2022

CP to become primary rail provider for CMA CGM

Canadian Pacific (CP) is to become CMA CGM's primary rail provider in Canada, servicing the ports of Vancouver, Montreal and Saint John, NB. The two companies recently signed a new multi-year agreement. The partnership creates...

02.06.2022

Transnatur's latest partner in Italy

The Spanish Transnatur Group has opted for a new partner in Italy. Its cooperation with the company Italmondo was launched at the beginning of June 2022. Italmondo's headquarters are located in Arluno close to Milan, and its...

02.06.2022

Stable deterioration of reliability

The Copenhagen-based maritime consultancy Sea-Intelligence reports that global schedule reliability is continuing its trend of 2021. In April 2022, schedule reliability declined further by -1.3 percentage points compared to March...

02.06.2022

Niar Werx and Erickson expand MRO programme

The Werx programme at Wichita State University’s National Institute for Aviation Research (Niar) and Erickson Precision Ventures (Precision) have reached an agreement to work cooperatively on modification, maintenance and...

02.06.2022

ARA picks David Blight

ARA Asset Management (ARA) has appointed David Blight as chief investment officer of its private funds division, ARA Private Funds (APF). The appointment follows ARA’s recent acquisition by ESR (ESR Group) in a landmark...

02.06.2022

Karachi: new gateway for Uzbekistan

It is a first for the Pakistan International Container Terminal (Pict), an affiliate of the International Container Terminal Services (ICTSI) operating in the Port of Karachi. It has just handled the first export shipment from...

02.06.2022

From Prague? No, Bratislava.

The Hamburg -based freight forwarder A. Hartrodt has established its own company in Slovakia, which will be led by Dusan Kapral. The country manager will report to Sebastian Endt, regional managing director for the Eastern Europe...

02.06.2022

Direct Vietnam - Moscow service introduced

Trans Container has launched regular service to ship consumer goods from Vietnam to Russia via the Zabaikalsk border-crossing point. The overland journey covering more than 10,000 km from Hanoi to the Moscow region takes about 35...

02.06.2022

Cargo Ai partners with Air Cargo Inc.

Cargo Ai is entering a new strategic partnership with Air Cargo, the oldest and largest network of air freight cartage agents providing first and last mile services to the air cargo industry in North America since 1941. The...

02.06.2022

"Excellence Award" for DSV

Logistics and transport provider DSV has won Lufthansa Cargo's "Excellence Award" for 2021. It is a first for DSV. "With this award we recognise the strong growth in the past year and the special partnership...

02.06.2022

“Curiosity of the Day”

It would take 76 eight-hour working days to read every online privacy policy you agree to in an average year.

02.06.2022

Belgians buy French IMX

The Belgian post and parcel operator Bpostgroup has taken over a majority stake in IMX France, a Paris-based international delivery provider. The Belgians are due to acquire 100% of the shares by 2024. IMX offers a range of...

02.06.2022

Railfreight industry lacks real-time visibility

Knorr-Bremse is to make a strategic minority investment in Nexxiot. In a major deal, Knorr-Bremse and its North American subsidiaries will integrate Nexxiot’s IoT hardware and software into its future rail products and the...

02.06.2022

Hapag-Lloyd now really African

The deal is officially closed: Hapag-Lloyd is taking over the container liner business of German carrier Deutsche Afrika-Linien (DAL). The carriers had agreed on the framework agreement in March 2022, and the transaction has now...

01.06.2022

Ten locomotives to add haulage capacity

More than AUD 50 million (EUR 33.4 million) for new locos to support growth in high-demand commodities: Aurizon has received the first batch of four locomotives from manufacturer UGL. The remaining six units will be commissioned...

01.06.2022

Which cure for the maritime crisis?

Four government advisors and decision makers representing four global regions were present on Fiata's panel entitled “Moving Forward: What are the Solutions to the Maritime Crisis”, a side event of the Fiata HQ Meeting in Geneva...

01.06.2022

A round table with FVL companies and OEMs

At its first physical general assembly & spring congress since 2019, the Association of European Vehicle Logistics emphasised that the FVL industry is now facing the third ongoing crisis in three years. Wolfgang Göbel,...

01.06.2022

Pall-Ex promotes Sue Buchanan

Pall-Ex has promoted former UK network director Sue Buchanan to international network director. She will be focusing on developing cross border growth, strengthening relationships with existing partners and onboarding new...