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01.02.2022

ID Logistics: 20 years on track

With an exceptional surge of 21% in revenue, totalling almost EUR 550 million in Q4/2022, France-based ID Logistics continues its upward trend in its domestic and global markets. In Q4/2021, the company’s revenues in France...

01.02.2022

Recovery in Strasbourg Port

2021 marked a recovery in all traffic in the port of Strasbourg on the Rhine. While goods transported on the river grew by 2% in comparison to 2020, container volumes over all modes of transport grew by 3%. In total, river...

01.02.2022

Record cargo volumes at Katowice Airport

The Upper Silesian Aviation Group (GTL SA) – which manages Katowice Wojciech Korfanty International Airport – has summed up its cargo traffic results for 2021. From January to the end of December 2021, a record-breaking...

01.02.2022

Black cat touches the sky

Yamato Holdings (YHD) and Japan Airlines (JAL) are planning to launch air freighter operations between Tokyo and Hokkaido, Kyushu and Okinawa in April 2024. Since logistic providers including YHD are facing a law amendment...

01.02.2022

More logistics expertise for Crane

Crane Worldwide Logistics has appointed three executives to drive its future growth and development in Germany. Jens Osterwald has been named as managing director to oversee the company’s freight forwarding and contract logistics...

01.02.2022

Automating trucks for container terminals

With the Anita project (autonomous innovation in terminal operations), truck manufacturer Man, DB and the Fresenius University of Applied Sciences are currently preparing to introduce automated trucks at the container depot of DB...

01.02.2022

"Curiosity of the Day"

From 1815 to 1821, Rio de Janeiro was the capital of the United Kingdom of Portugal, Brazil and the Algarve.

01.02.2022

Big investments for Maasvlakte

After some negotiation, Maersk and the Port of Rotterdam Authority have agreed on an utilisation plan for an 185,000 sqm site at the extreme southern tip of the Prinses Amaliahaven. The carrier's logistics arm will build a 23,000...

Das System optimiert

Das Terminal Operating System (TOS) gilt als Herzstück des multimodalen Umschlags. Die Samskip-Gruppe hat bereits 2018 ihr TOS erneuert und erntet nun die Früchte ihrer Investitionen. So genannte «KI-Optimierungsmodule» treiben...

31.01.2022

An extraordinary year for Haropa

Since its merger in 2021, France’s Haropa Port has now reached the "critical size" in Europe's Northern Range as well, as Laurent Foloppe, Olivier Ferrand and Cédric Virciglio described it at the virtual media...

31.01.2022

Hellmann launches new weekly Silk Road train

Hellmann has introduced a new weekly train between Chongqing (China) and Bremen (Germany). The first train recently arrived at the Roland Umschlagsgesellschaft Terminal in Bremen. The new service follows an increasing demand for...

31.01.2022

ACS delivers presents to remote village

Last month, Air Charter Service helped to buy, wrap and deliver more than 300 Christmas presents for children in the remote region of Kowanyama Aboriginal Shire, in the far north of Queensland. Paul Crook, CEO of ACS’s Sydney...

31.01.2022

Automotive logistics reeling from soaring costs

ECG, the Association of European Vehicle Logistics, has pointed out that the finished vehicle logistics (FVL) industry continues to face an unprecedented crisis with rising costs and dwindling capacities and volumes. In the...

31.01.2022

Aircargo Club Deutschland renews presidium

The Aircargo Club Deutschland (ACD) elected a new presidium at its annual general meeting on 18 January. Ingo Richter (centre), managing director of Topsystem, a provider of intelligent IT solutions, is taking over the office of...

31.01.2022

Container flows stronger in Northern Europe

The container throughput index published by the RWI Leibniz Institute for Economic Research and the Institute of Shipping Economics and Logistics (ISL) rose by 0.8 points to 122.8 points (revised) in December 2021. The index...

31.01.2022

Qatar Airways Cargo to insource operations in Spain

Qatar Airways Cargo is insourcing its entire commercial operations in Spain from 1 February. “Qatar Airways Cargo extends its sincere and grateful thanks to ATC Aviation Services, which has helped over the past 16 years to...

31.01.2022

Gebrüder Weiss trains national champion

Marko Nebrigic, who completed his apprenticeship at Gebrüder Weiss’s Wolfurt air and sea services location in Voralberg in autumn 2021, has won the ‘Austrian Skills 2021’ national championships in the category forwarding...

31.01.2022

Hamburg’s new fairway open

In the port of Hamburg, the enlarged fairway on the Lower and Outer Elbe is now open to traffic, enabling vessels to transit the Elbe river with more cargo. The opening of the second stage of the route took place on 24 January....

31.01.2022

15 locos for Italy, Norway and Sweden

Manufacturer Alstom has won an order from leasing company Railpool for 15 Traxx locomotives, with the option for a further five vehicles. The locomotives are intended for use in Norway, Sweden and Italy. Traxx 3 is the most...

31.01.2022

Taking digitalisation to the next level

Ensuring a fast and secure transmission of data has become an increasingly important issue in digitalised logistics. To investigate the reliability of the various communication networks, researchers at the Fraunhofer Institute...