08.01.2021

Connecting Silicon Valleys

From tomorrow, 9 January 2021, Air India will operate the first-ever nonstop flights between San Francisco airport (SFO) and Bangalore (Bengaluru), India. The twice weekly B777-200LR service also represents the only nonstop...
08.01.2021

China-train reaches Europe in 32 days

Fifty feu containers carrying chemical, industrial and retail goods from Suzhou, China recently reached their destination terminal at Ludwigshafen, Germany after a journey of 32 days. This is the first westbound block train...
08.01.2021

Sinovac vaccine arrives in Turkey

As part of its continuing healthcare, medical equipment and vaccine shipments across the globe, Turkish Cargo last week carried the first batch of Sinovac, Covid-19 vaccines procured from China by the ministry of health, to...
08.01.2021

Blank sailings significantly down, says eeSea

The latest data from the Danish maritime and supply chain intelligence company eeSea’s ‘Blank Sailings Tracker’ shows that 1.7% (for February) and 0.6% (for March) of head-haul sailings have been cancelled on three main east/west...
08.01.2021

TT Club: malpractice costs USD 6 billion a year

British TT Club’s recent analysis pointed out that two thirds of incidents related to cargo damage are caused or exacerbated by poor practices at the time of packing goods into a freight container. Such supply chain malpractice...
08.01.2021

Mario Sommariva takes charge in east Liguria

The Italian ports of La Spezia and Carrara have a new captain at the helm. Mario Sommariva was recently installed as the new president of the Port Authority of the Eastern Ligurian Sea by Italian transport minister Paola De...
08.01.2021

Five locomotives to be used abroad

Five 193 series locomotives have arrived at the centre for rail vehicle repairs in Usti nad Labem, Czechia. They were leased by CD Cargo on the basis of a tender announced at the end of last year. The locomotives will now be...
08.01.2021

New vessel for Wan Hai Lines

Japan Marine United has delivered a 3,055 teu container ship to Wan Hai Lines. The line has ordered a total of eight container vessels with a design capacity of 3,055 teu which can carry containers with a maximum of 12 rows x 6...
08.01.2021

Managing director for parcel logistician

Daryl Dylan, who previously held the post of head of ‘carriers and commercials’, has been asked to step up to the role of new managing director of Caribou, a multimodal parcel, haulage and freight logistician. His first tasks...
08.01.2021

Amazon buys aircraft

Continuing its fleet expansion, the US e-commerce giant Amazon completed its first-ever purchase of eleven B767-300. The four aircraft purchased from WestJet in March are currently undergoing passenger to cargo conversion and...
08.01.2021

Takeover in Morocco completed

Ceva Logistics, an affiliate of CMA CGM, has acquired the Asti Group in Morocco as part of its ongoing strategy to expand its portfolio in Northern Africa. The companies have been long-standing partners for more than two decades...
08.01.2021

Switzerland to adopt eTIR

The Swiss federal council has given the green light for the inclusion of the electronic TIR procedure (eTIR) in the customs convention on the international transport of goods under cover of TIR carnets. Subject to approval by...
08.01.2021

Broekman enlarges Benelux footprint

Rotterdam-headquartered Broekman Logistics, with branches in South Asia and Europe, has taken over the Belgian activities of Freight Forwarder Ipsen Logistics, further strengthening its position in the Benelux region....
08.01.2021

Yang Ming banks on France

In a joint operation, Yang Ming has set up a new subsidiary with the Naxco Group in France. Yang Ming (France) officially became operative on 1 January 2021. The subsidiary aims at assisting Yang Ming to develop local market and...
08.01.2021

Aersale begins first of 24 P2F conversions

Aersale, a major US provider of aviation products and services, has inducted the first of its 24-owned B757-200 for passenger-to-freighter (P2F) conversion at its heavy-MRO centre in Goodyear, AZ, which has been performing such...
08.01.2021

Transitions and performance at Daseke

At the end of last year Christopher Easter, the CEO of Daseke, a transport and logistics company based in Addison TX (USA), retired as CEO and as a board member, on account of family-related obligations. Jonathan Shepko, one...
08.01.2021

"Curiosity of the Day"

In his youth, 16th US president Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865) was a prize-winning wrestler, suffering only one defeat, and has a place of honour in the National Wrestling Hall of Fame.

08.01.2021

Pan-European guidelines established

As from the turn of the year 2021, maintenance and repairs of the 42,000 Ermewa freight wagons must be carried out in accordance with the new Ermewa maintenance manual (EMM). The France-based company is the first wagon holder...
07.01.2021

ITJ Video News – 7 January 2021

In the ITJ Video News of the 7th of January 2021, editor-in-chief Chris Doepgen shines the spotlight on Olfa Hamdi, the 36-year-old new president and chairwoman of state-owned Tunisair; the shipping line ZIM’s plans to go public;...
07.01.2021

Battery-electric loco tests in California

The BNSF Railway Company (BNSF) and the Wabtec Corporation’s exploration of the potential of battery-electric locomotives crosses another milestone this week as the partners begin testing the technology in revenue services...
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