The Turkey-based Arkas Line is shifting its rotation of the Black Sea seasonal reefer service towards Egypt. By the third week of January, Reefer Express Service (REX) will start calling the AICT terminal in Dekhelia and operate...
For a period of three years, the German general cargo cooperation VTL will use Synfioo's transport data to monitor its road freight transports. The cooperation is intended to bring more transparency to the supply chains as part...
The France-based logistics services provider Geodis changes the name of its Geodis Industrial Projects division to Geodis Project Logistics. In addition to the group’s growing activity in the renewable energy market, as well...
Brussels airport has selected Geert Aerts to continue the cargo strategy of recent years and to further develop Brucargo, in cooperation with the cargo community. From 8 March, he will succeed Steven Polmans, who left the company...
Swissport has won three new cargo contracts at Vienna airport. Cargolux (pictured in the retro livery celebrating the company's 50th anniversary in 2020), Etihad Airways from Abu Dhabi and Qatar Airways from Doha have mandated...
The US-state Pennsylvania has approved 26 rail freight improvement projects for a total USD 31.3 million that will enhance freight mobility while creating or sustaining more than 200 jobs across Pennsylvania. Pennsylvania has 65...
In the course of 2020, container throughput at Johor Port in Malaysia surpassed the mark of one million teu. Johor Port CEO Derick Basir said that neither Covid-19 nor the shortage of empty containers in Malaysia and other parts...
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The Loxx logistics group, headquartered in Gelsenkirchen, home to the famous German football club Schalke 04, is to be taken over by Rhenus. Besides activities in the Rhine-Ruhr region, the company is also a supplier of...
In the ITJ Video News of 14 January 2021, editor-in-chief Chris Doepgen informs our audience about the Swissterminal Group’s foray across the border into France; IAG Cargo’s 1,000th charter flight of 2020; Andreas Polychronakos’...
Ceva Logistics has launched an express train service from Jinhua (China) to Dourges (France). Loaded with 22 full containers carrying various supplies, the first train completed the over 11,000 km long journey in 18 days running...
Christian Nebel is moving to another employer in Hong Kong. The German national assumed his new position as CEO for the northern Asia region at Agility at the beginning of this year. Previously, he had headed the Asian business...
Cargo instead of holidaymakers: B787 of TUI Airways, TUI Netherlands or TUI Belgium have been flying to Stuttgart airport (STR) in southwest Germany for several weeks now. The cabin remains empty to provide space for around 40 t...
The latest figures from the International Maritime Bureau (IMB) in London, an organisational unit of the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC), show an increase in piracy attacks and armed robbery in 2020. Compared to 2019 with...
Engineering and technology company Vysus Group will deliver 18 iron ore (IORE) transportation locomotives to Luossavaara-Kiirunavaara (LKAB). The mining and mineral group will use it as an ore railway in Sweden all year round....
René Bitterli joined the Sulser Group, which is headquartered in Otelfingen (ZH), as managing director of Swiss ProWork in May 2019. On 1 December 2020, he also took over the helm at Swiss Logistics Academy. As a managing...
GLP, a developer of logistics warehouses and distribution parks, announced today, 14 January 2021, that it is launching the construction of 300,000 sqm of warehouses across seven units and four sites in Bedfordshire,...
Sata Azores Airlines' A321LR (long range) registered CS-TSI, named "Inspire", which joined the fleet of the Portuguese carrier at the end of November 2020, has performed the longest flight by duration ever recorded in...
The South Carolina (SC) Ports Authority on the US East Coast finished 2020 with its strongest throughput in December so far. The ports handled almost 210,000 teu at Wando Welch and North Charleston container terminals in...
DHL Global Forwarding is building a new warehouse costing ZAR 126.5 million (USD 8.3 million) in Johannesburg. The provider's new 13,000 sqm facility will be located within the bonded zone at Skyparks Business Estate close to...
