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28.01.2021

Wind of change at Gefco

Gefco announces the arrival of new general managers, with new positions for many seasoned GMs around the world: Concerning the clusters, Frank Erhard now leads a new cluster covering the Benelux region, Austria, and...

28.01.2021

Refinancing for Crossbay

Crossbay, founded in May 2020 as part of the Mark Group’s multi-platform strategy and the first pan-European logistics platform to focus on single-tenant distribution centres, has agreed a GBP 400 million debt facility with...

28.01.2021

First carbon-neutral shipment

Contecon Guayaquil (CGSA), the concessionaire of the public port in Guayaquil (Ecuador), recently handled the world’s first certified carbon-neutral container shipment. The logistics process involved supply chain firms, from...

28.01.2021

Less dry ice, more medicine

Swiss cool logistics provider Skycell has engineered a new deep-frozen container, which is safer and more secure than traditional deep-frozen options relying on dry ice. It also allows the transport of up to ten times more...

28.01.2021

Snow ploughs for rail tracks

Sinara has delivered fourteen PSS-1K snow clearing trains to the Russian Railways (RZD). The rolling stock will now be deployed to remove snow off rail tracks in various parts of Russia. The trains can be used on tracks up to...

28.01.2021

Schwarzmüller celebrates 150th anniversary

In 2021, the Austrian Schwarzmüller Group is looking back on 150 years of an eventful and internationally successful company history. The industrial company was founded as a smithy in Passau in Lower Bavaria in 1871. During the...

28.01.2021

Connecting three continents

Responding to the lack of freight capacity on passenger flights, DB Schenker has extended its global flight network. For the first time in its company history, own-controlled flights connect America, Europe and Asia directly....

28.01.2021

Prince Rupert full-fledged

2020 was another good year for the Port of Prince Rupert (PRPA). Despite the pandemic, the Canadian port handled 32.4 million t of cargo, 9% more than in 2019, which is a new record mark. Exports of coal, propane, and wood...

28.01.2021

New warehouse in Corby

Since the e-commerce boom seems to know no limits in pandemic times, 3PL logistics provider Europa Worldwide Group has announced further investment. Just last year, its warehouse division launched its GBP 60 million and 750,000...

28.01.2021

Green drives for green logistics

The German federal ministry of transport and digital infrastructure is investing EUR 24.4 million in three projects for the development of climate friendly truck drives. The aim is to use alternative propulsion systems to...

28.01.2021

Meyer, Meyer & Meyer

With effect from 1 January 2021, the supervisory board of the Osnabrück-based fashion logistics company appointed Theresa Meyer as chief transformation officer (CTO) to the now three-member executive board. The economist has...

28.01.2021

Thome Group sets up simulator

The Thome Group, a Singaporean provider of services to the shipping and offshore industries, installed a ‘full mission navigation bridge simulator’ with a 320⁰ view on 20 January in Makati City, in the Metro Manila region of the...

28.01.2021

More Amazon in Quebec

Amazon has opened two new sortation centres and its first three delivery stations in Quebec (Canada). A 160,000 sqm in Coteau-du-Lac, a suburb just west of Montreal, will be the company’s largest sortation centre in this province...

28.01.2021

Latest titanium tanks in operation

In Germany, Hoyer Group engineers pooled their specialist knowledge and developed a new generation of titanium tank containers for highly corrosive dangerous goods. After two years of intensive development work and construction...

28.01.2021

Cold chain through Alaska

Alaska Cargo and Cold Storage, a joint venture of industrialist Chad Brownstein and McKinley Capital Management, and the State of Alaska have concluded a 55-year lease agreement at Ted Stevens Anchorage International Airport...

28.01.2021

Viasea expands in UK

Norwegian owned company and shipping line Viasea Shipping, established in autumn 2016, has opened a new office in UK. Due to increased traffic between UK and Norway, Viasea has appointed Andrew Ellis as UK managing director to...

28.01.2021

"Curiosity of the Day"

Wild elephants sleep for just two hours a day.

27.01.2021

Finland – Siberia in just 5.5 days by rail

Russian Railways (RZD) has launched a high-speed cross-border freight service from Western Siberia to Northern Europe. The first high-speed freight train loaded with chemical products recently departed for Finland from...

27.01.2021

Hot demand for chilled goods

The latest annual analysis of the reefer market presented by the Dutch consultancy Dynamar confirmed the trend in 2019, the latest year analysed. A global appetite for selected special food products boosted the reefer market....

27.01.2021

New basic ULD services solution

Global ULD services provider Jettainer has developed and launched "plug&fly". The new basic version of its full-service ULD solution enables small and mid-sized airlines to unlock the benefits of outsourced ULD...