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07.05.2021

GW's Hungarian dances

International transport and logistics company Gebrüder Weiss is expanding its operations in Hungary. With investments of around EUR 30 million, GV will launch new locations in Zalaegerszeg (western Hungary) and Pécs (southern...

07.05.2021

WLP docks in Vietnam

The Vietnam Logistics Business Association (VLA) has registered with the World Logistics Passport (WLP) in an effort to improve trade and supply chain connectivity. WLP, a policy initiative launched by the state of Dubai in...

07.05.2021

Chorus and Purolator enter charter deal

The Voyageur Aviation Corp, a subsidiary of Chorus Aviation, has completed a six-month trial service and signed a three-year contract with Purolator for the provision of air cargo charter services. Voyageur will replace two...

07.05.2021

Electric trucks: largest order

Quality Custom Distribution (QCD) in the USA will be deploying 14 Volvo VNR Electric models on its Southern California last-mile delivery routes by the end of 2022. For Volvo Trucks North America the deal represents the...

07.05.2021

Nicholas Minde joins Sennder

Sennder, a European digital freight forwarder, has hired Nicholas Minde as general manager for the DACH region, effective 1 August 2021. As the company has expanded its network over the past 18 months, now counting more than...

07.05.2021

An inland shipping first for Sweden

The first container barge shuttle service on Sweden’s inland waterways is in the pipeline. The barges will sail between Stockholm’s newly-opened Norvik Port and the port of Västerås. The service will be operated by German...

07.05.2021

Laso Transportes in Central Europe

Effective May 1, 2021, Laos Transportes launched another international subsidiary, Laso Slovenia. Laso Transportes, which was established on 2 May 2007, exactly 14 years before this event, as a result of the merger of two major...

07.05.2021

Renault Trucks appoints Swiss sales director

Martin Hofer assumed his new role as Swiss sales director at Renault Trucks, Switzerland, in Dietikon, on 1 April 2021. His mission is to lead and support the sales team and oversee the network of distributors. He will be...

07.05.2021

Jost launches new social media format online

Jost presents its new social media format JostTruck Stop: As from May 2021, Jost World, a manufacturer and supplier of security related systems for utility vehicles, will publish a new clip every two weeks on the group's social...

07.05.2021

"Curiosity of the Day"

The rum drink Grog goes back to the nickname of the British admiral Edward Vernon (1684-1757), who always wore a grogram overcoat made of camel hair. "Old Grog" ordered rum to be diluted with water in 1740.

07.05.2021

Latam Group’s 30-year strategy

Latam Group, a major aviation operator in Latin America, has launched its ‘sustainability strategy’, which aims for carbon-neutrality, no waste to landfills and the protection of ecosystems in South America. Latam will...

07.05.2021

Jaxport retains stable credit rating

The port of Jacksonville, Florida’s largest container gateway, was pleased that Fitch Ratings recently confirmed the A rating of the port's approximately USD 130 million in outstanding revenue bonds. The credit rating agency...

06.05.2021

Creating a Korean conversion cluster

More passenger-to-cargo (P2F) aircraft conversion facilities are needed around the world in order to meet the expected rise in demand for widebody freighter aircraft. That is why Israel Aerospace Industries' (IAI) Aviation...

06.05.2021

More block train services to Europe

Ceva Logistics has introduced a new weekly train-ferry service from China to UK. The route's pilot shipment left Xi'an (China) by block train on 18 March 2021, bound for Kaliningrad (Russia), where the cargo was reloaded the same...

06.05.2021

Pigs in airspace

As China has to import pigs due to losing half of its native population (i.e. approximately 30 % of the world's population) to African swine fever since 2018, 1,030 purebred breeding pigs flew approximately 11,000 km from London...

06.05.2021

American JAS invests in Hong Kong

JAS Worldwide, a global freight forwarding company headquartered in Atlanta, GA, and founded 1978 in Milan, Italy, has acquired Tigers Limited, a freight forwarding and supply chain management company based in Hong Kong. It...

06.05.2021

Pop-up terminal opens in California

US class I railways Union Pacific (UP) is opening a new intermodal terminal near the Ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach in an area that is central for the distribution of imports and industrial warehousing in Southern...

06.05.2021

Swiss Post secures M&A competence

Hannes Caj is changing fronts. After 13 years as a partner at Zetra International, a Swiss consulting firm for mergers & acquisitions, real estate transactions, restructuring and debt advisory, the Austrian-born Hannes Caj...

06.05.2021

Rhine ports steady the ship

The first quarter of this year went rather well for the Port of Switzerland, the operator of the Swiss inland ports on the River Rhine. The port authority’s three hubs handled 1.26 million t of goods in Q1/2021, 2.9% less...

06.05.2021

New CEO at Istanbul's ISG airport

Malaysia Airports has appointed Berk Albayrak as new CEO to pilot Istanbul Sabiha Gokcen International Airport (ISG), Turkey’s second largest airport. He succeeds Ersel Goral, who resigned effective 27 April 2021, after having...