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21.01.2022

Solar cells to power fleet

The German transport company Duvenbeck is going to test the novel solar cell sets developed by the Scandinavian manufacturer Green Energy. The fleet-wide installation of the solar cells will be preceded by a trial phase with...

Ein neuer Blitz am Himmel

Von Madrid aus nimmt für die Correos Group der neue Luftfrachtdienst Correos Cargo nach Hongkong auf, der auch Lateinamerika anbindet.

20.01.2022

Three roundtrips to link Paris region and Novara

Expanding its European network, Geodis has launched a road-rail solution linking the Paris region with northern Italy. The new service offers an alternative to road transport between Noisy-le-Sec in France to Novara in Italy....

20.01.2022

Elephant locomotives en route to West Africa

Sinara’s affiliate STM Trading House has begun the delivery of six 882 kW TGM8A Elephant diesel locomotives to Compagnie des Bauxites de Kindia (CBK) in Guinea, a West African plant of the Russian aluminium company Rusal. The...

20.01.2022

Posti fishing in Swedish waters

The Finnish Posti Group Corporation recently acquired the Swedish company Veddestagruppen, which is majority-owned by PEQ Invest and members of the company management. The Posti Group, which recently sold its Russian affiliates,...

20.01.2022

ACS Logistics joins Project Cargo Network

Project Cargo Network welcomes ACS Logistics as new member in Austria. An AEO certified company, ACS Logistics was founded over ten years ago with headquarters in Linz Airport in the heart of Austria's economy and additional...

20.01.2022

Flypop's second zero LOPA widebody

After welcoming a first widebody aircraft two months ago, Flypop is putting its second aircraft into service for cargo operations this week. It has been partnering with Hi Fly airline for zero LOPA cargo operations over the past...

20.01.2022

GB Railfreight tests Penmaenmawr line

Hanson’s Penmaenmawr railhead in north Wales has reopened after a decade. The UK supplier of heavy building materials has invested approximately GBP 300,000 (EUR 359,811) to repair, renew and refurbish the facility. This includes...

20.01.2022

More LNG capacity for ZIM

ZIM Integrated Shipping Services has inked a new eight-year charter agreement with "a shipping company that is affiliated with Kenon Holdings", as was said in a press release. The charter covers three 7,000 teu...

20.01.2022

Season's greetings fake vax card

US Customs and Border Protection officers were conducting routine international parcel inspections for dangerous, illegal or prohibited products when they found an obviously counterfeit Covid-19 vaccination card. CBP officers...

20.01.2022

GDP for pharmaceuticals facility in Brussels

Nippon Express (Belgium) has gained good distribution practice (GDP) certification for air and ground forwarding operations, inclusive of inventory control, at its facility in Brussels Airport’s cargo area. Belgium has become...

20.01.2022

A good year for Port of Corpus Christi

The American Port of Corpus Christi located in the Gulf of Mexico looks back in joy on 2021. Throughput rose significantly, which was mainly due to an 81.2% increase from 2020 in shipments of liquefied natural gas (LNG). Crude...

20.01.2022

Kukla picks John Hay

Kukla Beverage Logistics welcomes a new commercial manager to strengthen its growing business and commercial partnerships in the beverage industry. John Hay assumed his new role at the start of January 2022. He was previously...

20.01.2022

General cargo network regroups

System Alliance has unbundled its organisation, founding the companies System Alliance Netzwerk and System Alliance Hub Betriebsgesellschaft for this purpose. System Alliance will continue to exist as a pure real estate company...

20.01.2022

DP World invests in Southampton

DP World is putting eleven sustainable straddle carriers into service in the Port of Southampton. The new equipment cost GBP 10 million (EUR 12 million) and completes a GBP 40 million (EUR 48 million) investment in Britain’s...

20.01.2022

"Curiosity of the Day"

Each snowflake contains approximately one trillion (1,000,000,000,000,000) water molecules.

20.01.2022

An American-European software marriage

The US-American company Four Kites has acquired NIC-place, a European supply chain visibility provider. With its own data control centre (DCC), NIC-place offers carriers ways to share supply chain data with customers and keep...

20.01.2022

Kalitta Air implements 8tree’s Dent Check

Kalitta Air, a USA-based cargo and special-missions airline, has begun using 8tree’s Dent Check, which is the world's only handheld-portable, completely wireless 3D scanner tool with integrated AR that is purpose-built for the...

20.01.2022

Combi Lift appoints Klaus Hilpert

German heavy lift and project logistics expert Combi Lift has hired Klaus Hilpert as its new managing director and chairman of the board of directors. “I am very pleased that Hilpert is part of our team. With his expertise...

19.01.2022

Driving decarbonisation

DB Schenker has joined the International Road Transport Union (IRU) as its newest corporate member. The logistics operator aims to work more closely with the wider road transport sector on a range of issues and opportunities,...