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01.02.2021

A future for young people?

Europa Worldwide Group, a specialist road, air & sea and warehouse operator, aims to support young people by developing its own career programme. The RAPID career development programme for school-leavers has been re-launched...

01.02.2021

HSF changes hands

Danish DFDS has acquired the cold chain logistics company HSF Logistics Group, which provides temperature-controlled services for food producers. The group operates four brands, with HSF Logistics being a major player in the...

01.02.2021

VP promotions at Bolt Express

Bolt Express, headquartered in Toledo (Ohio), has promoted three new members to its senior management team. Jorge Cazares, who has 20 years of experience in expedite transportation, has been promoted to vice president,...

01.02.2021

Rotterdam: Innovation boosts railway

The C.RO Ports terminal in the Botlek in Rotterdam will be the first terminal to add ‘VEGA-VTG plates’ to its portfolio. These platforms can be used for transporting non-craneable trailers by rail. The trailer is driven onto the...

01.02.2021

Reception in Miami

Global Crossing Airlines Group, operating as "GlobalX", has taken delivery of its first A320 aircraft, marking the beginning of the new airline which has also big cargo plans. Chairman and CEO Ed Wegel: "We are...

01.02.2021

"Curiosity of the Day"

In 1914, it took 93 minutes to build a Ford Model T on the assembly line.

01.02.2021

Jan de Rijk augments fleet

Dutch company Jan de Rijk Logistics, with headquarters in Roosendaal, is enhancing its fleet. Daniel Uijtdewillegen, its director for international transport, recently received the keys of the first batch of new trucks from Johan...

01.02.2021

Port of Brussels shows resilience

While waterway transport is under pressure because of the economic slowdown caused by pandemic, overall traffic in the port of Brussels moved sideways in 2020 (+0.3%). The port handled 4.95 million t of cargo for Brussels in 2020...

Die Branche bleibt lebendig

Zu den widersprüchlichen Neuigkeiten des Jahres 2020 gehörten u.a. auch die Einstellungsstopps – und häufige Stellenwechsel. Moritz Blaser, Branchenspezialist im Personalwesen, erklärte Christian Doepgen den Hintergrund auch...

29.01.2021

Swiss hydrogen truck saves 80 t of CO2

Gebrüder Weiss has added a hydrogen truck to its vehicle fleet. Instead of using diesel, the Hyundai XCIENT Fuel Cell model delivered to the Altenrhein branch in Switzerland runs on what is called "green hydrogen",...

29.01.2021

ETCS technology for German freight locomotives

ETCS Alstom will equip a total of thirteen electric freight locomotives for DB Cargo with the latest ETCS signalling technology standard (ETCS Baseline 3 Release 2) for trans-European freight traffic between Germany, Denmark and...

29.01.2021

Critical cargo from China to Pakistan

International transportation and logistics specialist Dimerco has delivered oversized cargo - three sets of product line equipment, totalling chargeable weight 91,577 kg - for a telecommunications client to Lahore, Pakistan from...

29.01.2021

Another step for eco-friendly transports

Freight forwarder and logistics provider Alfred Schuon in Kecskemét is the first company in Hungary to opt for synthetic diesel to power its vehicles. This innovative high performance fuel is produced by the hydrogenation and...

29.01.2021

Normandy ports look ahead

The good start of the year in the Normandy ports was due to the strong increase in traffic and supply to Ireland via Cherbourg with up to twelve departures per week to the ports of Dublin and Rosslare. While usually, 35,000...

29.01.2021

More capital for Prologis

Over the year 2020, the San Francisco-based real estate developer Prologis completed USD 25.0 billion of investment activity on an owned and managed basis. From the ProLogis – AMB merger in 2011 to year-end 2020, Prologis...

29.01.2021

Calling for European airfreight solution

Europe's air cargo carriers have proven essential in the global fight against the Covid-19 pandemic, transporting over 107,000 t of PPE last year - the equivalent of 1,000 fully-loaded B777F. With the transport of Covid-19...

29.01.2021

ESR Amagasaki DC wins award

ESR Cayman, an APAC focused logistics real estate platform, reports that its flagship development ESR Amagasaki Distribution Centre (ESR Amagasaki DC) has won the gold award in the category “best infrastructure, community &...

29.01.2021

Strong quarter for J.B. Hunt

Arkansas-headquartered J.B. Hunt Transport Services, a Fortune 500 company, has announced Q4/2020 earnings of USD 154 million, 0.7% more than in Q4/2019. Revenues for the current quarter amounted to USD 2.74 billion, compared to...

29.01.2021

"Grande Texas" sets sail

A PCTC (pure car & truck carrier) is the second newbuild to enter the fleet of the Neapolitan Group Grimaldi in 2021. The “Grande Texas”, the sixth of a series of seven car carrier units commissioned from the Chinese...

29.01.2021

App-access to Russian transport services

Delo Group in Russia has introduced an interactive mobile app to present its profile. The application provides information on the group in an animated 3D format in Russian and English – key assets, business geography, services,...