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06.01.2021

Accreditation protects supply chains

Davies Turner Ireland (DTI) recently added ISO9001 accreditation as part of its wider campaign to reduce any risk of supply chain disruption following the end of the Brexit transition period. As part of the UK-based Davies...

06.01.2021

Shippers and forwarders query carriers' policy

The associations of European shippers and freight forwarders ESC and Clecat have appealed to the European Commission and criticised the policy currently pursued by liners. In a joint letter to the Competition Directorate of...

06.01.2021

Breaking the wave in Californian ports

Due to unprecedented pre-Lunar New Year inbound volumes, a combination of increased consumer spending, holiday shipments and replenishment of warehouse inventories, the US-American ports of Long Beach and Los Angeles are...

06.01.2021

KMT launches new TOS

The Cameroonian subsidiary of International Container Terminal Services, Inc. (ICTSI), recently implemented the Logstar Terminal Operating System (TOS) at the Port of Kribi. KMT is a purpose built deep water general cargo...

06.01.2021

Volga-Dnepr brings back capacity

Roughly one month after a landing incident in Siberia, which led Volga-Dnepr Airlines to freeze its entire fleet of AN-124-100 aircraft, the expert in super heavy and outsized air cargo transportation has re-started its...

06.01.2021

Bhat follows von Boxberg

Ashwin Bhat will take over as member of the executive board in charge of Lufthansa Cargo's product and sales division on 1 March 2021, succeeding Dorothea von Boxberg, who will become chairwoman of the executive board and CEO...

06.01.2021

Wagon leasing company upgrades hardware device

Nexxiot, a Switzerland-based specialist in digital logistics, has introduced the third generation of its iconic Gateway Device. VTG, a German-based railcar leasing and rail logistics company, is the first partner to be equipped...

06.01.2021

Rabelink and Gesink have three years to merge

Rabelink Logistics, an affiliate of the German Huettemann Group, has purchased Gesink Transport, effective 1 January 2021. At Gesink, a company which was founded more than 160 years ago, 140 employees and a fleet of more than...

06.01.2021

LBS enters LNG business

In the second half of December, the PCTC MV “Auto Energy” of UECC's fleet received its first ship-to-ship bunkering of liquefied natural gas (LNG) blended with 10% renewable liquefied biogas (LBG). Gasum’s LNG bunker vessel...

06.01.2021

Air bridge between Birmingham and Belgium

Priority Freight, a major British time-critical logistics specialist, and charter airline company Jota Aviation have agreed a strategic partnership to keep supply chains moving through new customs challenges since the UK left the...

06.01.2021

ACS adds know-how to New York team

Air Charter Service has appointed Chris Fisher as business development director in the USA. Fisher brings with him 30 years of experience in the aviation industry - beginning in the US Navy before assuming an operations...

06.01.2021

"Curiosity of the Day"

Losing one’s smartphone causes almost as much stress as a severe terrorist threat.

06.01.2021

New builder for container terminal

In Germany, DB has taken over the responsibility for planning and constructing the rail-road container terminal in the GVZ Region Augsburg from the previous contractor, Terminalinvestitionsgesellschaft Augsburg. DB Netz will...

06.01.2021

Fresh anniversary and new facilities

Online Systemlogistik, a network for general cargo services within Germany founded in 1995, intends to celebrate its postponed anniversary in 2021 and introduce new projects. The network plans to enhance its B2C product...

05.01.2021

New shuttle to link Luxembourg and Germany

Stena Line, LkW Walter, Rostock Port and CFL will launch a new rail connection between the Intermodal Terminal Bettembourg-Dudelange in Luxembourg and the RTM Terminal at the Rostock Port in Germany on 11 January 2021. The...

05.01.2021

CMA CGM pursues air cargo plans

It is not just the integrators. The carrier CMA CGM is also working hard on setting up its own air cargo business. According to news from the trade journal "aerotelegraph", the shipping company is currently negotiating...

05.01.2021

RAM Cargo pushes pharma offerings

Royal Air Maroc has signed a global master lease agreement (MLA) with Envirotainer. Through this partnership, Royal Air Maroc is now able to provide its customers with on-demand leasing options for temperature-controlled...

05.01.2021

Container flows back on track

According to the current flash estimate, the container throughput index of the RWI – Leibniz Institute for Economic Research and the Institute for Shipping Economics and Logistics (ISL) showed a slight, seasonally adjusted...

05.01.2021

Baxter, DHL and Gerlach bridge Brexit

The Nottingham-based British forwarder Baxter Freight and the Deutsche Post subsidiary DHL Freight have agreed on a partnership for freight transports in Great Britain as well as between the United Kingdom and continental Europe....

05.01.2021

Egypt joins TIR system

The North African country is the 77th state to accede to the United Nations TIR convention which governs the transport of goods under TIR coverage, as part of the only global transit system. Adding Egypt to the TIR system creates...