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29.01.2021

Global challenges for binational airport

In 2020, EuroAirport Basel-Mulhouse (EAP) welcomed 71% less passengers than during the record year 2019. Cargo activities, on the other hand, recorded a 2.3% increase to 108,500 t (47,700 t flown, +4.7%). The important cargo...

29.01.2021

Tackling HGV driver shortage

British recruitment agency Encore Personnel has planned ahead for a shortage of lorry drivers. Operating ten branches across the Midlands for more than 15 years, Encore is an accredited member of Logistics UK. With the...

29.01.2021

Henry hops on American aircraft

Starting next Monday, 1 February 2021, animals that previously travelled as emotional support animals and no longer qualify as service animals on flights in the USA, may travel as carry-on pets (charged USD 125) or as cargo pets,...

29.01.2021

Corpus Christi floats on crude oil

Despite the pandemic’s impact on the energy market worldwide, the Port of Corpus Christi witnessed significant growth in 2020 - mainly attributable to a 65% increase in crude oil shipments from 2019. The port set a new annual...

29.01.2021

"Curiosity of the Day"

Farts do not contaminate sterile operation rooms as long as the culprits keep their trousers on.

29.01.2021

Rebranding across America

As of January 2021, Freight Logistics International, Pirâmide SeaAir and Rodair will officially be known as Rhenus Logistics in the Americas. The three companies in the United States, Brazil and Canada were acquired in 2018 and...

29.01.2021

Two strategic promotions

Consolidated Chassis Management (CCM), a cooperative chassis pool manager from the USA, has named Thomas Martucci (left) the company’s new vice president and chief technology officer and Timothy Sibley (right) vice president and...

28.01.2021

ITJ Video News – 28 January 2021

In the ITJ Video News of 28 January 2021, editor-in-chief Chris Doepgen looks at Djibouti’s plans to become a regional air-sea logistics hub; the addition of new storage capacities at Paris Charles de Gaulle airport; the...

28.01.2021

Five trains per week

Arcese has launched a new rail connection between Italy and Germany. The intermodal freight service runs between Bologna and Cologne and has been in operation since mid-January. The new train passes through the Ceneri Base Tunnel...

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...