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26.04.2022

Duisport's look across the borders

The Duisport Group is looking back on an exceptionally good financial year 2021. At the company’s annual press conference, CEO Martin Bangen attributed this success in part to the company’s broad-based business model. Sales...

26.04.2022

AGI takes Roger Larreur on board

Alliance Ground International (AGI), a provider of air cargo handling, freighter ground handling and airport security services, has appointed Roger Larreur as its chief commercial officer (CCO). With over 30 years of...

26.04.2022

Intermodal solution for Zimbabwe created

CMA CGM is introducing a new dedicated service offering with an eco-friendly intermodal solution to serve the dynamic Harare province in Zimbabwe as an addition to the two existing services via Beira (Mozambique) and via Durban...

26.04.2022

Two platforms soon to merge

The holding has given the green light. Icontainers, an online freight platform heaquartered in Barcelona, is to merge with the digital freight forwarding branch, Dubai-based Shipa Freight. The combined company, wholly owned...

26.04.2022

Rotterdam also feeling the impact

It has been a difficult start of the year for Rotterdam, too. 113.6 million t of freight passed through the port in Q1/2022, 1.5% less than the 115.2 million t in Q1/2021. While the throughput of mineral oil products and iron ore...

26.04.2022

"Air taxi" for freight

Endecots Taxi Aéreo, which has been operating feeder flights in Ecuador for over 30 years, is planning to expand into the cargo business. An application for an operating licence was recently submitted to the national authorities....

26.04.2022

Shani Ben-David first woman to be elected captain

ZIM president & CEO, Eli Glickman officially appointed Shani Ben-David to the position of captain in a traditional ceremony held at the company's headquarters in Haifa. Ben-David is the first woman to reach the highest...

26.04.2022

More LNG for Yang Ming

Taiwan-based shipping company Yang Ming will equipped five new 15,000 teu container vessels with dual-fuel LNG power. In a press release, Yang Ming described LNG as a "mature low-carbon alternative" to regular fuel,...

26.04.2022

WFS lands four contracts in Spain

Worldwide Flight Services’ (WFS) has won new contracts for its full ground and cargo handling capabilities in Spain: the Hungarian cargo charter airline Fleet Air has commissioned WFS to provide cargo handling services in this...

26.04.2022

US short line rail road expands in Pennsylvania

Reading & Northern Railroad (R&N) has acquired a campus in Carbon County (Pennsylvania, USA) consisting of a complex of nine buildings and a number of heavy cranes systems that can lift equipment of varying weights. The...

26.04.2022

Bolloré opens warehouse in Abidjan

Bolloré Transport & Logistics Cote d’Ivoire is inaugurating a modern 9,000 sqm logistics base in the airport area of Abidjan, Ivory Coast to foster the import and export of goods by air. The new infrastructure will have...

26.04.2022

New TEX service to start next month

Hamburg-based carrier Hapag-Lloyd will launch the new regular service Turkey East Coast Express (TEX) in mid May 2022. The weekly service will call the three Turkish ports of Izmit, Aliaga and Mersin and connect them...

26.04.2022

Geodis strengthens its executive team in Germany

Geodis has appointed Johann Peter Reimer as its new air freight director and Björn Srocke as its new sales director in Germany. Reimer has 20 years of experience in logistics, both at home and abroad. After training as a...

26.04.2022

Natilus to build 3.8 t aircraft in San Diego

Natilus, a US company which produces the world’s first purposefully-designed and manufactured autonomous aircraft for air freight transport, is building new engineering and manufacturing facilities for its family of aircraft on...

26.04.2022

Coal transports reach a record high

Indian Railways (IR) has intensified its coal transports. During the year 2021-22, the state-owned railway augmented its coal shipments by a record 111 million t, thus loading a total of 653 million t of coal, 20.4 % more than...

26.04.2022

World trade in peril, says WTO

In mid- April, the WTO published its analysis on the implications of the war in Ukraine for global trade and development. The WTO secretariat's note, ‘The Crisis in Ukraine: Implications of the war for global trade and...

26.04.2022

"Curiosity of the Day"

95% of the happiness hormone serotonin is found in the gastrointestinal tract.

Im grünen Bereich

Madrilener Stadtteil Villaverde entwickelt sich zum Last Mile-Hub.

25.04.2022

TXL augments intermodal transport services

TX Logistik (TXL) has introduced two round trips per week for the multimodal transport provider Samskip Multimodal in its train network between Duisburg in Germany and Katrineholm in Sweden. The train is around 700 m long, can...

25.04.2022

Elbe Flugzeugwerke picks Jordi Boto

Jordi Boto has been appointed CEO of Elbe Flugzeugwerke (EFW). He succeeds Andreas Sperl, who left the company after more than 15 years of growth. Boto’s previous position was COO, where he had been responsible for driving the...