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03.05.2022

Gruber picks Felix Kunath

Gruber Logistics recently appointed Felix Kunath from Berlin as its new director for the Full Truck Loaded (FTL) business unit, the provider’s most important segment in terms of turnover. The South Tyrolean company recorded a...

03.05.2022

No Russian impact on Port of Gothenburg

In Q1/2022, the Swedish port of Gothenburg handled with 212,000 teu, 4% more containers than in the same period in 2021 (204,000 teu). While the total number of ro-ro units amounted to 147,000, a 5%-rise compared to Q1/2021,...

03.05.2022

ATSG chooses Safran’s brakes

Air Transport Services Group (ATSG), the world’s largest lessor of freighter aircraft and provider of air cargo transportation services based in Wilmington, Ohio (USA), has selected Safran Landing Systems for the retrofit of more...

03.05.2022

Davies Turner names new senior management

UK-based independent freight forwarding group Davies Turner has made several important additions to the board of directors at its surface freight and logistics subsidiary Davies Turner & Co. Head of ocean Tony Cole...

03.05.2022

Newly-founded OSL enters agreement

Industry veterans Peter Brun, Lars Kjærulf-Møller, Emil Hersbøll and Svend Heisselberg have founded Ocean Shipping & Logistics (OSL), which is to operate from its hub in Aarhus, Denmark. The new company decided to...

03.05.2022

Shifting car transports to the railways

In partnership with Fret SNCF/Rail Logistics Europe, ÖBB Rail Cargo Group (RCG) despatched a test train for the first eco-friendly rail transport of new vehicles for Hödlmayr from Barcelona (Spain) to St. Valentin/Schwertberg in...

03.05.2022

"Evaporated" cognac, rerouted honeybees

In the US District Court in Pasadena, American Airlines is being sued by Bacardi USA over the mysterious disappearance of six of 24 pallets containing 1,680 cases of cognac flown on 20 September 2021 from Paris to Los Angeles....

03.05.2022

Christian Biesecke joins Vacad board

Christian Biesecke has been elected as treasurer and new member of the board of Vacad, the German association of air cargo handlers. The division manager for cargo and logistics at Port Ground replaces Stefanie Jelinek....

03.05.2022

"Curiosity of the Day"

The vampire squid (Vampyroteuthis infernalis) has proportionally the largest eyes of all squids: they are 2 cm wide and the animal's body is only about 15 cm long.

03.05.2022

Food giant switches to renewable fuels

Nestlé’s products will now be delivered around UK and Ireland by trucks which emit up to 95% less carbon. This significant reduction in emissions comes after the company switched 75% of its own fleet of trucks from diesel to...

03.05.2022

More units on Venice-Bari-Patras service

Naples-headquartered Grimaldi Group has added another vessel to its Venice-Bari-Patras service. The “Eurocargo Cagliari” will join the “Eurocargo Alexandria” and “Eurocargo Genova” on the ro-ro line from 4 May 2022. The...

03.05.2022

New ranking of warehouse developers in Europe

In a ranking recently published by "Property EU”, which was founded in 2006, the industry evaluates Europe’s largest developers of logistics real estate according to the amount of their respective constructed space volume...

Profite fliessen in Neubauten

Hohe Investitionen in die Flotte.

02.05.2022

More agricultural deliveries from Ukraine

From March to April 2022, the Austrian Rail Cargo Group (RCG) organised grain trains from Ukraine to Germany every second day, transporting a total of 60,000 t of grain during this period. Currently, RCG is running grain trains...

02.05.2022

South India is on

There is news beyond the war in Ukraine, the Chinese shutdowns and rising fuel prices. The St Gallen-based Swiss Inter Rail Group has established its first office in Chennai (India), to be led by branch manager Vijayan Munusamy....

02.05.2022

Russians let Let go

The company Aircraft Industries - LET Kunovice, Czechia’s largest manufacturer of civilian transport aircraft, is returning to Czech ownership after 14 years. On 21 April, the Russian owner Ural Mining and Metallurgical Company...

02.05.2022

Dachser chooses Jesper Larsen

Jesper Larsen has been appointed managing director air & sea logistics Southeast Asia. Based in Bangkok, he is now responsible for 220 employees in eight locations in Indonesia, Singapore, Malaysia, Vietnam and Thailand....

02.05.2022

European road freight in all-time high

The Upply Ti IRU European road freight rates index (Erfri) for Europe hit an all-time high in Q1/2022. The benchmark index rate stood at 110.9, which is 4.3 points over the previous quarter and 7.5 points over Q1/2021. The...

02.05.2022

World trade in March: the calm before the storm?

The container throughput index published by the RWI Leibniz Institute for Economic Research and the Institute of Shipping Economics and Logistics (ISL) went up in 2022, rising by 1.6 points to 119.2 points (seasonally adjusted),...

02.05.2022

Takeovers pay off for ID Logistics

In Q1/2022, France-based ID Logistics saw its total revenues grow by an impressive 23.7 % to EUR 539 million (+15.1% like-for-like). In France, ID Logistics recorded a 12.9% increase in revenue to EUR 204.2 million, which...