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14.10.2020

Dnata upgrades in Singapore and Australia

Dnata, which operates a 1,400 sqm pharma and perishable handling centre at Singapore Changi airport, has become the first local cargo handler to operate cool dollies. The company’s new devices are designed to serve the...

14.10.2020

Hybrid locomotives for more efficient transport

Germany’s VTG Rail Logistics and the European Loc Pool (ELP) have signed their first long-term full-service leasing contract for up to four EuroDual locomotives. The hybrid locomotives will be operated by VTG subsidiary Retrack...

14.10.2020

New CargoLine representative in Benelux

In 2019 Kuehne + Nagel took over Rotra’s overland transport network and logistics activities, which prompted CargoLine to re-order its situation in the Benelux region. H. Essers has represented the general cargo cooperation...

14.10.2020

New WEC route to Bilbao

The shortsea operator WEC Lines UK is set to offer a new direct container service between the Dutch port of Moerdijk and Bilbao (Spain) from 24 October, in conjunction with A2B and with further destinations in the UK, Norway,...

14.10.2020

Anne-Marie Jean president of Port Autonome de Strasbourg

The members of the executive board have elected Anne-Marie Jean as the new president of the Port Autonome of Strasbourg, as the successor to Catherine Trautmann.In June, Jean became a Strasbourg municipal councillor and the...

14.10.2020

CO2-free city deliveries in eleven countries

DB Schenker and Fuso (Daimler Trucks) are further expanding a partnership in the e-mobility field. In the coming months, DB Schenker will bring 36 additional Fuso eCanter vehicles into operation, expanding its eCanter fleet to 41...

14.10.2020

Munich airport extends footprint in Central America

Munich Airport International (MAI), a German airport management and consulting firm, and Emco, a Honduran construction company, have been awarded a concession to develop and operate the El Salvador airport cargo terminal for 40...

14.10.2020

Boeing awarded governmental contract

Boeing has received a performance-based logistics contract valued at USD 477 million from the US Defense Logistics Agency (DLA) for supplies, full supply chain management and logistics services, to ensure sustainment of multiple...

14.10.2020

Inland navigation protests in Rotterdam

The company Dubbelman Container Transporten organised a peaceful protest under the motto ‘proud of inland navigation’ in the Dutch Maasvlakte terminal in Rotterdam last week. The main subject was the ongoing congestion problem in...

14.10.2020

New managing director for Interroll Automation

On 12 October Steffen Flender took the role of Interroll Automation GmbH's new managing director. He will now lead the company's site in Sinsheim and its centre of excellence sorters. Flender was promoted from business unit...

14.10.2020

2,600 wagons to be connected with Nexeed soon

Lineas is digitalising its wagon fleet with Nexeed tracking and tracing capabilities from Bosch Connected Industry. 1,500 wagons are currently being equipped with gateways; they will be connected to the Nexeed tracking and...

14.10.2020

Ceva deals in Poland

Ceva Logistics, an affiliate of CMA CGM, was able to close two long-term contract extensions with key customers in Poland recently. One partner, a lighting manufacturer, has been working with the company for more than ten years....

14.10.2020

Glencar appoints three operations directors

Glencar Construction has strengthened its operations team by appointing three new operations directors. Chris Looney, Darren Turner and Nick Lakin, who formerly worked for other industrial and logistics-focused contractors, have...

14.10.2020

12th Latam Cargo route between Brazil and Miami

Bringer Air Cargo’s first cargo charter operated by Latam Cargo Brazil on the Miami–Belo Horizonte/Confins route landed on 7 October. Two months after launching the new Miami–Florianopolis route, the airline's 12th cargo route...

14.10.2020

"Curiosity of the Day"

A pizza with a slice missing inspired the computer game icon Pac-Man.

14.10.2020

APM Barcelona introduces new technology

APM Terminals Barcelona has installed a new fleet management and automatic weighing system in the 29 straddle carrier cranes it acquired recently. Thus the system is now installed in all straddle carriers in the terminal....

14.10.2020

DSV introduces fast China–Europe road freight

There’s no business as usual with Covid-19 around. Passenger flight cancellations are putting pressure on airfreight, causing capacity constraints. DSV’s new intercontinental road bridge between China and Europe offers a reliable...

14.10.2020

High-cube container facility saves space

The SME Harder Logistics is investing in a new fully-automated container warehouse on the edge of the German city of am Neu-Ulm. The facility, due to be completed by mid-2021, has the capacity to store 250 containers.The...

Die Chemie stimmt

Der Betrieb eines intermodalen Full-Service-Terminals innerhalb des weltweit grössten integrierten Chemiekomplexes ist eine grosse Herausforderung. Um über die geplanten Kapazitätsgrenzen hinaus zu operieren, setzt man in...

13.10.2020

Train carrying wood fibre from Linz to China

The logistics service provider Cargo-Partner was asked by the international fibre manufacturer Lenzing to organise a blocktrain from Linz (Austria) to Qingdao (China). The transport carrying sustainably-produced wood fibre on the...