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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...

26.11.2020

Curiosity of the Day

70% of the silent movies made in the USA have either disappeared or no longer exist.

26.11.2020

Air charter division for Logistics Plus

Logistics Plus (LP), a US provider of transportation, logistics and supply chain solutions, has created a new, dedicated "LP Air Charter Group" to focus on expanding its air cargo capacity and developing new air charter...

«Ich bleibe positiv»

...bekräftigt Massimo Roccasecca, und meint damit nicht etwa einen Test auf Covid-19. Gegenüber dem ITJ spricht der Frachtchef des nordostitalienischen Flughafensystems der Save Group über die aktuelle Situation, insbesondere an...

25.11.2020

Booming trans-Tasman airfreight system

DHL Express has launched a new direct freighter service connecting Melbourne, Auckland and Christchurch, five nights a week, providing a further 19 t of freight capacity for the trade flows between both countries. New Zealand...

25.11.2020

Swiss carrier to be climate neutral by 2030

SBB Cargo has been expanding its intermodal portfolio since 2012. In 2019, the Swiss railfreight company carried 118,831 containers and semi trailers with a total of 98,743 wagons on its intermodal network. This corresponds to a...

25.11.2020

From enemies to partners

EL AL Israel Airlines and Etihad Airways, the national airlines of Israel and the UAE respectively, are ready to explore deeper cooperation following the signing of a virtual memorandum of understanding. The wide-ranging MoU,...

25.11.2020

Cargo-Partner becomes cargowise

Austria-headquartered transport and info logistics provider cargo-partner is planning a worldwide introduction of the cloud-based logistics application Cargo Wise in its entire network across 40 countries. The software...

25.11.2020

16 trains on the Alps route

Starting off this November, Cargo Beamer has increased the frequency on its route between Kaldenkirchen in Germany and Domodossola in Italy. A total of four new intermodal trains, two each for Germany and Italy, were added to the...

25.11.2020

Curiosity of the Day

The US town of Aberdeen WA paid tribute to one of its most famous sons, Kurt Cobain of the band Nirvana, by adding the message ‘Come as You Are’ (a Nirvana song) to its welcome sign.

25.11.2020

Container index climax

The container throughput index of the German RWI – Leibniz institute for economic research and the institute of shipping economics and logistics (ISL) showed a robust improvement in October, rising from (corrected) 119.6 to 122.6...

25.11.2020

Former Tiaca chairman becomes Kales CEO

Dirk Hazenoot, who decided to step down after having worked for almost 20 years for the Amsterdam-based GSSA Kales Group, the last two years as CEO, will be succeeded by a well-known face in the airfreight industry....

25.11.2020

Trilatec featured by Solar Impulse Foundation

The list of 1,000 innovative ideas that prove that sustainable solutions can also be economically attractive, set up by solar flight pioneer Bertrand Piccard’s Solar Impulse Foundation, now includes the name...