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27.04.2022

Priority options from Cathay Pacific Cargo

Cathay Pacific Cargo is introducing a suite of priority options, offering dedicated booking tiers tailored to cargo shipments. Priority provides greater choice and better-defined service options to customers: speed, capacity and...

27.04.2022

Kuehne stays on the rise

Kuehne + Nagel improved its net turnover by 68% to CHF 10.2 billion in Q1/2022, generating a net profit of CHF 832 million. In ocean freight, originally Kuehne's core segment, container volumes reached 1 million teu in this...

27.04.2022

Trans-o-flex launches B2C pharma offer

Germany-based express service Trans-o-flex is now offering a B2C pharma service, which was developed for the temperature-controlled shipment of medicines to end customers. The timing of the service expansion was deliberate,...

27.04.2022

Scandlines sails out of the storm

Compared to 2020, ferry operator Scandlines increased sales by 20% to EUR 328 million last year, retaining its ebitda margin at 41%. In 2021, the company’s two ferry routes on the Baltic Sea generated revenues of EUR 260 million...

27.04.2022

Chemical transporters awarded

Union Pacific Railroad (UP) in USA has honoured 70 companies with the 2021 pinnacle award for their dedication and commitment to safely transporting chemicals by rail. The annual award honours customers who implement release...

27.04.2022

"Curiosity of the Day"

Figs are pollinated by wasps, not bees.

27.04.2022

MAG’s performance improves by 60%

Malaysia Aviation Group (MAG) achieved positive ebitda (earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortisation) of +MYR 433 million (USD 102 million), compared to -MYR 1,761 million (-USD 405 million) a year ago,...

26.04.2022

ASEAN rail-road cross-border service launched

Nippon Express has launched a new service linking up China and neighbouring ASEAN countries via rail and truck transport. This service includes the transports of cargo by rail between Kunming, China and Vientiane, Laos and...

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...