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12.03.2021

Hellmann Worldwide Logistics gains CCO

Global full-service logistics provider Hellmann Worldwide Logistics has named Patrick Oestreich as its new chief commercial officer. Succeeding Jens Möller, who took over the role on an interim basis in August 2020, Oestreich...

12.03.2021

Unmasking creative smuggling methods

Over a recent period of six days, US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officers at Cincinnati airport seized several shipments with illicit cargo, each smuggled in a unique way. On 23 February, narcotics detector dog Bruno...

12.03.2021

"Curiosity of the Day"

532 cars were destroyed in the making of the film ‘Transformers 3’.

12.03.2021

Eco-friendly solution within network

Tropos Motors Europe has joined the German Logistics Association "Bundesvereinigung Logistik" (BVL). The subsidiary of the Mosolf Group provides an eco-friendly solution for city logistics, delivery services and factory...

12.03.2021

Roll-out starts in Madrid

As part of its digitalisation strategy, Deugro, a project freight forwarder, has begun implementing cargowise, an integrated logistics execution platform developed by Wise Tech Global. Starting with the company’s branch in...

12.03.2021

Investments in Brake port

At the port of Brake in Lower Saxony, around EUR 8.4 million has been budgeted for investments and EUR 4.9 million for maintenance in 2021. The Europe-wide tender procedure was concluded last year, and pile-driving work for the...

12.03.2021

New aviation business development manager

First Choice Staff, a recruitment specialist to the freight, logistics and distribution industries in UK, has appointed Colin Blusch (left) as its aviation business development manager, thus expanding its offering to airport...

11.03.2021

ITJ Video News – 11 March 2021

In the ITJ Video News of 11 March 2021, editor-in-chief Chris Doepgen looks at the Swiss intermodal operator Hupac’s shuttle train between the Netherlands and Austria; Amerijet’s delivery of vaccines to the Caribbean and...

11.03.2021

An open marketplace for intermodal transport

Modility, a digital booking and brokerage portal for combined transport, has started operations. Thus combined transport operators can now market their capacities on the platform and forwarders can find and book them easily.The...

11.03.2021

Too many boxes in British ports

Post-Brexit trade disruption and ongoing congestion are causing critical build-ups of containers at UK ports, according to data from Container X Change, an online platform for buying, selling and leasing shipping containers.“The...

11.03.2021

100 trains between Doncaster and Whitemoor

GB Railfreight (GBRf) has been working on a project to renew the signalling system and overhead line equipment in the King’s Cross area, followed by major work to install a simplified track design at London King’s Cross railway...

11.03.2021

"Qare" and commitment to people

Qatar Airways Cargo recently surpassed a milestone – it transported 10 million Covid-19 vaccines. This total includes doses for Unicef, as part of a recently-signed 5-year MoU to support the UN organisation’s Humanitarian...

11.03.2021

Alstom broadens contract with Wincanton

Alstom UK has extended a contract with Wincanton by three years. Alstom's supply chain partner, who has worked for the shipper since 2018, will widen its services portfolio by adding a new logistics facility.In detail, Wincanton...

11.03.2021

CargoAi sets up board of advisors

The online platform CargoAi, founded in 2019 and headed by CEO Matthieu Petot, is launching a board of advisors, made up of airfreight industry experts. They’ll meet quarterly; the first remote session is due in April. CargoAi is...

11.03.2021

Vallair expanding footprint in Central France

Vallair has signed a LoI with the Centre-Val de Loire region and the operator of Châteauroux airport (CHR). It will see the aviation service provider awarded a ten-year lease to operate an 8,500 sqm full-service aircraft...

11.03.2021

Virginian comeback

After a serious setback in Q2/2020 (see ITJ Daily of 17 May 2020), the port of Virginia came back strongly, enjoying its best December and handling more than 260,000 teu, a rise of 16%. In total, Q4/2020 saw more than 814,000 teu...

11.03.2021

Russian rail operator modernising fleet

Russia’s United Wagon Company (UWC) has delivered a new batch of 40 ft timber flat cars to rail operator Arkhbum, a subsidiary of the Arkhangelsk Pulp and Paper Mill.The units are equipped with 25 t axle-load bogies, feature a...

11.03.2021

Less clouds in the coffee

The insolvent Bremen-based German freight forwarder Diedrich Meyer, which specialises primarily in coffee transport, is becoming operational again. With effect from March 2021 the joint venture B-LOG Bulk Logistik, which is made...

11.03.2021

CEO Jasienski leaving Wallenius Wilhelmsen

Craig Jasienski, the president and CEO of Wallenius Wilhelmsen, agreed with the board on 8 March to end his employment with the company. He served in various positions in the group for more than 30 years. CFO Torbjørn Wist will...

11.03.2021

More traffic via Ireland

In April, the Danish company DFDS Seaways is adding a fourth ship to the ferry line between Rosslare (Ireland) and Dunkirk (France). The link, launched with three vessels on 2 January, has operated well so far.The ‘Ark Dania’, a...