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27.11.2020

Weekly barge service on the Rhine

From rail to the river: From January 2021, the Switzerland-based logistics provider and terminal operator Swissterminal, a partner of the DP World network, will launch a regular barge service with two roundtrips each week from...

27.11.2020

Bosch adds parking facility near Paris

Bosch Secure Truck Parking, the digital booking platform for truck parking spaces, is expanding its footprint in Europe. After opening its first French site in Calais, it has now added another facility in Tournan en Brie near...

27.11.2020

Davies Turner picks head of ocean services

150 years old freight forwarding services company Davies Turner has chosen a new head of ocean freight services. Tony Cole (photo) follows Kieron Larkin, who is to lead a strategic review of the company’s computer systems and...

27.11.2020

"Curiosity of the Day"

The fear of eternal life is called "apeirophobia".

26.11.2020

Melnik re-joins Koper’s intermodal network

In cooperation with PKP Cargo International, Maersk has started a new rail connection between Port of Koper in Slovenia and the terminal in Melnik, about 40 km north of Prague in Czechia. The service re-opens opportunities,...

26.11.2020

AIT takes panther jump

The booming e-commerce trade continues to take its toll in the world of logistics. The American logistics company AIT Worldwide Logistics has acquired Panther Logistics, a British firm with experience in e-commerce residential...

26.11.2020

New liner service from Singapore

Australia's major privately owned shipping company, Sea Swift, has launched its new Dampier-Singapore liner shipping service, due to start in December 2020. The shipping company appointed the Gulf Agency Company (GAC) as carrier...

26.11.2020

Imbleau to take the helm from Vachon

The Montreal Port Authority (MPA), the commercial gateway to Eastern Canada, has appointed Martin Imbleau to the position of president and CEO. A lawyer by training, he brings hands-on experience in the utilities sector...

26.11.2020

RTB Cargo adds four more locomotives

RTB Cargo is leasing four Euro 9000 locomotives from European Loc Pool. The multi-system locomotives with a diesel power unit of 1.9 MW and an electric power unit of 9 MW under the overhead line are ideal for traffic on the...

26.11.2020

ECS and Qatar Airways Cargo extend partnership

Qatar Airways Cargo has appointed Wexco, which joined ECS Group a year ago, as its general sales agent (GSA) in Australia, where the Middle Eastern airline is operating 30 weekly passenger and freighters flights to Adelaide,...

26.11.2020

CDB Aviation to start freighter conversion

CDB Aviation, a wholly owned Irish subsidiary of China Development Bank Financial Leasing Co. has formed a new partnership with Germany-based EFW to conduct the passenger-to-freighter conversion of two A330-300 aircraft in 2021,...

26.11.2020

Concordia Maritime CFO resigns

Ola Helgesson, who has worked for the Swedish tanker shipping company Concordia Maritime since 2014, has decided to resign from his position, in order to take on new challenges. CEO Kim Ullman: "It has been a real...

26.11.2020

A good digital response to 'smart ports'

The ports of Antwerp, Barcelona, Busan, Hamburg, Los Angeles, Montreal and Rotterdam have joined forces to present their most innovative projects in digitalisation and sustainability. On the 17 and 18 November, the second and...

26.11.2020

ESR's strategy in Asia

ESR Cayman, a major logistics real estate platform focused on China, Japan, South Korea, Singapore, Australia and India, has published its five-year vision roadmap and targets around ESG (environmental, social and governance)...

26.11.2020

Cargolux interested in Triple Seven

Richard Forson, president and CEO of Cargolux Airlines, who was invited to speak at an Aviation Club of the UK (virtual) lunch earlier this month, held not only the longest ever (50 minutes) speech to the club, but also "one...

26.11.2020

E-trucks for Swiss retail chain

In Switzerland, Migros launched an online supermarket with home deliveries in September 2018, as a pilot project in cooperation with the city of Berne. The offer was so successful that myMigros has meanwhile been gradually...

26.11.2020

Omnitrax CEO transfers to parent company

Omnitrax, one of the USA's fastest growing railroads, has announced that Kevin Shuba, CEO since 2013, has accepted a new role with its parent company, The Broe Group – a multi-billion-dollar organisation with assets and...

26.11.2020

Huge interest in advice on trade with UK

A Brexit webinar recently hosted by Europa Road showed the massive interest in expert advice at the end of the transition period before Brexit sets in. Europa Road, part of the logistics operator Europa Worldwide Group,...

26.11.2020

Survey of energy efficiency in shipping

With regards to the youngest short-term greenhouse gas emissions measures agreed at the last meeting of the IMO’s marine environment protection committee, the international trade association Interferry is launching an energy...

26.11.2020

Hövelmann continues digitalisation programme

Hövelmann Logistik, which is headquartered in Rees in the Lower Rhine region in Germany, has now ordered 150 next-generation CarCubes from Trimble Transport & Logistics. The on-board computers are to replace the existing...