11.01.2021

Grimaldi launches Palermo–Cagliari link

The Naples-based Grimaldi Group has kicked off 2021 by expanding its services to and from Sicily. Its existing thrice-weekly Salerno–Cagliari connection between the Italian mainland and Sardinia will also call at the Sicilian...
11.01.2021

Rail company expands in Utah

Patriot Rail has finalised the acquisition of short line operator Salt Lake Garfield & Western Railway (SLGW) in Utah, USA, and its related entities Caballero and Caballero, storage and transload service providers. SLGW...
11.01.2021

USD 100 million for Project44

Project44, a startup founded in 2014 that specialises in supply chain visibility for shippers and logistics companies, has secured a further USD 100 million investment funds in a Series D financing round. The new funding...
11.01.2021

Covid-19 crisis makes Liège a millionaire

Specialisation in goods transport has moved Liège airport (LGG) up to the top of the table as an essential link in the fight against the pandemic. The Belgian airport saw a 24% increase in the tonnage passing through the...
11.01.2021

US transport minister resigns

After the events of last Wednesday in Washington DC, US Secretary of Transportation, Elaine Chao, has written the following letter. "Dear Department of Transportation colleagues Yesterday, our country experienced a...
11.01.2021

LHG's results on track

The volume of goods handled by the Lübecker Hafen-Gesellschaft (LHG) in 2020 stood at 21.8 million t, a mere 2% lower, year-on-year. Increases in the last four months of the year helped keep the decline moderate. The port...
11.01.2021

GLP investing in Venlo

GLP has acquired a 44,000 sqm logistics asset in Venlo (Netherlands), situated close to the German border. The fully-leased facility is located in ‘Trade Port Nord’, within easy distance of the three ports of Rotterdam, Antwerp...
11.01.2021

1,000 charter flights since March 2020

IAG Cargo ended 2020 with the departure of its 1,000th charter flight since March that year. The new service was introduced during the Covid-19 pandemic and utilises aircraft from the group that would, in normal times, not be...
11.01.2021

Solar energy is cool

Protecting the environment has long been an important issue for Swiss provider Rhyner Logistik. It therefore takes great care to deploy eco-friendly utility vehicles in its transport services. The cooling units used on Rhyner...
11.01.2021

"Curiosity of the Day"

The word “sorry” is uttered 368 million times per day in the UK.

11.01.2021

Bertling appoints head for Houston office

Steve Walter has been appointed general manager of Bertling Logistics’ Houston office. He assumed his position on 1 January 2021. Walter brings a wealth of commercial, operational and management experience from his 23 years in...
08.01.2021

Connecting Silicon Valleys

From tomorrow, 9 January 2021, Air India will operate the first-ever nonstop flights between San Francisco airport (SFO) and Bangalore (Bengaluru), India. The twice weekly B777-200LR service also represents the only nonstop...
08.01.2021

China-train reaches Europe in 32 days

Fifty feu containers carrying chemical, industrial and retail goods from Suzhou, China recently reached their destination terminal at Ludwigshafen, Germany after a journey of 32 days. This is the first westbound block train...
08.01.2021

Sinovac vaccine arrives in Turkey

As part of its continuing healthcare, medical equipment and vaccine shipments across the globe, Turkish Cargo last week carried the first batch of Sinovac, Covid-19 vaccines procured from China by the ministry of health, to...
08.01.2021

Blank sailings significantly down, says eeSea

The latest data from the Danish maritime and supply chain intelligence company eeSea’s ‘Blank Sailings Tracker’ shows that 1.7% (for February) and 0.6% (for March) of head-haul sailings have been cancelled on three main east/west...
08.01.2021

TT Club: malpractice costs USD 6 billion a year

British TT Club’s recent analysis pointed out that two thirds of incidents related to cargo damage are caused or exacerbated by poor practices at the time of packing goods into a freight container. Such supply chain malpractice...
08.01.2021

Mario Sommariva takes charge in east Liguria

The Italian ports of La Spezia and Carrara have a new captain at the helm. Mario Sommariva was recently installed as the new president of the Port Authority of the Eastern Ligurian Sea by Italian transport minister Paola De...
08.01.2021

Five locomotives to be used abroad

Five 193 series locomotives have arrived at the centre for rail vehicle repairs in Usti nad Labem, Czechia. They were leased by CD Cargo on the basis of a tender announced at the end of last year. The locomotives will now be...
08.01.2021

New vessel for Wan Hai Lines

Japan Marine United has delivered a 3,055 teu container ship to Wan Hai Lines. The line has ordered a total of eight container vessels with a design capacity of 3,055 teu which can carry containers with a maximum of 12 rows x 6...
08.01.2021

Managing director for parcel logistician

Daryl Dylan, who previously held the post of head of ‘carriers and commercials’, has been asked to step up to the role of new managing director of Caribou, a multimodal parcel, haulage and freight logistician. His first tasks...
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