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27.10.2021

SR Technics chooses Anisa Diwakar

Anisa Diwakar has joined SR Technics’ business development team as head of parts repair customer services. Diwakar started with SR Technics, a global MRO service provider, as account manager engines in 2014. She successfully...

27.10.2021

New site in Coventry

Real estate developer Bericote Properties has contracted Glencar to construct a 72,465 sqm logistics and industrial scheme in Coventry. The project will be known as Coventry Logistics Park. Works for the speculative...

27.10.2021

First French LNG bunker vessel named

The ‘Gas Vitality’, the first LNG bunker vessel to operate from France, was named at a ceremony in China’s Hudong-Zhonghua Shipbuilding yard. The 18,600 sqm newbuild bunker vessel is the second collaboration effort of Total...

26.10.2021

Strasbourg expands its position as hub in Alsace

Multi Modal Rail (MMR) is adding a third shuttle to its offer of connections between the inland port in Strasbourg (France) and the sea port in Rotterdam (the Netherlands). As from 12 November 2021, the container terminal Nord...

26.10.2021

Huge investments in Gioia Tauro

After taking over 100% the shares of Medcenter Container Terminal in Gioia Tauro in April 2019, the new owner Terminal Investment Limited, the terminal branch of the Swiss carrier Mediterranean Shipping Company (MSC), has decided...

26.10.2021

Gebrüder Weiss wins this year's Hermes prize

International transport and logistics services provider Gebrüder Weiss has been awarded this year’s Hermes transport logistics prize. Conferring the distinction in the category "supply chain" in Vienna on 21 October...

26.10.2021

HMM launches its own FIL service

The South Korean carrier HMM, member of The Alliance, is launching the Far East-India-Latin America Service (FIL), a new regular container shipping route. The link will connect Busan to the Eastern Coast of Latin America. The...

26.10.2021

Aramex welcomes European stakeholder

It is a connection linking Franc with the Middle East. Geo Post, which is owned by Le Groupe La Poste, has invested in a 20.15% stake in CEP and logistics services provider Aramex. The shares of the Dubai-headquartered company...

26.10.2021

Aurizon adds bulk and general freight segments

Australian rail carrier Aurizon is acquiring the entire business of One Rail Australia from Macquarie Asset Management for AUD 2.35 billion (EUR 1.51 billion). ORA operates in South Australia, the Northern Territory, which...

26.10.2021

Air Malta's longest flight

Air Malta operated its longest and farthest non-stop flight recently. The charter flight, to Rwanda’s capital Kigali, carried 135,690 AstraZeneca vaccines donated by the government of Malta to the African nation. The seven-hour...

26.10.2021

Liberalising binational road freight transport

In future, road hauliers from Switzerland and Russia will be allowed to transport goods between the two countries as well as transit journeys through the two states without a permit. The representatives of the Swiss...

26.10.2021

More capacities at Duluth

In USA, Duluth has now become the second port on the Great Lakes-St. Lawrence Seaway System capable of handling containers by direct water connection. Recent investments in infrastructure and capabilities have upgraded existing...

26.10.2021

SGL continues its rapid expansion

Nordic company Scan Global Logistics (SGL) is opening three new offices in West Africa and France - a change, since acquisitions of other companies have taken the lead over the last months. About a month ago, Group CEO Allan...

26.10.2021

Royal Vopak picks Dick Richelle as CEO

Royal Vopak’s supervisory board will nominate Dick Richelle as chairman of the executive board and CEO as per 1 January 2022, Eelco Hoekstra having decided to step down. Richelle started his career with Royal Vopak as a...

26.10.2021

"Curiosity of the Day"

The actress and nude dancer Anita Berber (1899-1929) ate rose petals soaked in chloroform and ether and thus started a drug trend in Berlin in the 1920s.

26.10.2021

Drone delivery in USA: Mesa Air partners Flirtey

Mesa Air Group has signed an agreement with aerospace technology company Flirtey to order four delivery drones, with an option to order an additional 500 aircraft. With this agreement, Mesa becomes the first scheduled airline to...

26.10.2021

Booking cargo per mouse click

DP World has launched a new digital logistics platform, which enables seamless, safe, secure, and efficient movement of cargo with a single-window solution. With Cargoes Logistics, customers can choose from multimodal...

26.10.2021

Fashion now close to Halle/Leipzig

Mytheresa, a virtual B2C sales platform for fashion items, is opening its new logistics centre at Leipzig/Halle Airport in Germany. It will be the company’s second location after its headquarters in Munich. The proximity to the...

26.10.2021

HPC with new MD duo

Nils Kemme has been appointed MD of Hamburg Port Consulting. He will work with fellow managing director Suheil Mahayni. The joint MDs are united in their goals: "Together we can demonstrate how we want to develop our...

26.10.2021

Fire onboard "ZIM Kingston" under control

The fire, which broke out onboard the "ZIM Kingston" last week, has been extinguished, the carrier said in a press release. On Friday 22 October 2021, the vessel, chartered by ZIM, en route from Pusan to Vancouver, ran...