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11.02.2021

Death of Latam Argentina

Eight months after suspending its flight operations, Latam Argentina has now officially ceased to exist. Flights between twelve destinations in Argentina as well as four international connections (Miami, São Paulo, Santiago de...

11.02.2021

"Curiosity of the Day"

The former 43th US President George W. Bush (2001-2009) signs the pictures he paints as a hobby with “43“.

11.02.2021

New equipment for Antwerp

Antwerp Container Terminal (ACOT), a member of the SEA-invest Group, has placed an order for two Liebherr ship-to-shore container cranes. The cranes are identical to one already delivered in 2020. SEA-invest is active in 25...

11.02.2021

Data converter for customs handling

There is a growing need among companies for solutions to integrate existing excel or CSV data into customs applications in order to better visualise customs processes and avoid double entries. In response to this market...

11.02.2021

Changes at Aspa

Beth Ann Frisher will join the Alabama State Port Authority (Aspa) senior management team as new chief commercial officer, effective 18 February 2021. Bringing commercial maritime experience at the senior level in both the...

10.02.2021

Japan–UK by ship and rail in just 42 days

Russian Railways (RZD) and Maersk have launched the first transit container train with cargo from Japan on the Trans-Siberian route. Maersk recently dispatched the first container train loaded with Japanese freight from the...

10.02.2021

AN-124 carries Thai Dornier aircraft

Ruag MRO International is comprehensively modernising Dornier 228 aircraft for the Royal Thai Navy, which uses them to monitor the exclusive economic zone called the "200-mile zone" of the Gulf of Thailand....

10.02.2021

Italian shuttle service launched

Shipping and logistics group CMA CGM has introduced the Piacenza Rail Shuttle. The new rail service connects the Italian port of Genoa with the Piacenza logistics hub and is operated in cooperation with the Italian intermodal...

10.02.2021

Three new associate partners

Three cold packaging specialists - Cold Chain Technologies, headquartered in Holliston (MA), Sonoco ThermoSafe, headquartered in Arlington Heights (IL), and Tower Cold Chain Solutions, from Theale (UK) - are joining Pharma.Aero...

10.02.2021

DP World balanced in 2020

Container volumes continued to flow via DP World in 2020. Throughout the first year of the pandemic, DP World handled 71.2 million teu, volumes developed sidewards (+0.2% on a like-for-like basis). This was possible due to a...

10.02.2021

Index dampens hopes of fast comeback

According to the recent Agility Emerging Markets Logistics Index, 51.5% out of 1,200 industry professionals surveyed don’t expect a full economic and logistics recovery until 2022 to 2024. They see Latin America and...

10.02.2021

AJW operative in Malpensa

In December 2020, the British AJW Group opened a new 11,000 sqm warehouse in Milan to mainly support Easyjet’s EU operations, having become recently a supply chain solution provider of the airline. The new facility located...

10.02.2021

Litchfield named managing director

British specialist technology provider Freight Software Group (FSG) has appointed Richard Litchfield as new managing director at its Forward Computers, which is a British independent supplier of freight forwarding software to the...

10.02.2021

Strasbourg stands up to pandemic

The inland Ports of Strasbourg in France, which will move to new headquarters in 2021, maintained their services throughout the pandemic in 2020. River traffic stood at 6.8 million t, down 9.5% from 2019. The shutdowns in 2020...

10.02.2021

New GCC cross-border express road service

Logistic provider Agility and last-mile delivery and e-commerce specialist Shipa have launched a bonded, express road freight network to connect businesses and consumers in the GCC. The new service provides customers with...

10.02.2021

La Couverture covered by Unilode

Outsourced ULD management and repair services provider Unilode and MdG Group, a supplier of cold chain products and services for the food and pharmaceutical sectors, have signed a long-term agreement concerning La...

10.02.2021

"Curiosity of the Day"

An elephant’s tusk grows 17 cm per year.

10.02.2021

Menzies Aviation strengthens cargo team

Global aviation logistics specialist Menzies Aviation has announced five appointments, including three new hires and two internal appointments. Rory Fidler joins as vice president (VP) cargo technology, a newly created role,...

10.02.2021

Resilience at Trois-Rivières

The Port of Trois-Rivières has reported its annual results. In 2020, the Canadian port handled a volume of goods of 3.3 million t, down from 2019, but in line with the forecasts. The 2.9 million t of dry bulk traffic...

10.02.2021

Making non-craneable semi-trailers craneable

VTG has cooperated with logistics provider VEGA International to develop a solution to make non-craneable semi-trailers craneable. The successful trial runs were carried out in Tilburg (Netherlands), where VTG customer and...