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30.11.2020

For Christmas in Queensland

A new dedicated Australia Post freighter has taken to the skies transporting up to 60 t of mail each week to and from Brisbane, improving parcel delivery times for local online shoppers ahead of Christmas. The new service...

30.11.2020

New facility in Osaka

In Japan, DHL Express, is opening its hitherto largest distribution facility, the Osaka Distribution Centre (ODC) at Sakai city, Osaka-fu. With an investment of JPY 9.9 billion (EUR 79.9 million), the ODC brings three separate...

30.11.2020

Quiet brakes for 30,000 wagons

VTG has refurbished all the rail wagons it deploys in Germany and Switzerland with so-called quiet brake blocks. Now only composite or disk brakes will be used. After several years of work, the conversion programme will be...

30.11.2020

Doubling the Cork-Zeebrugge service

The Belgian liner CLdN is adding a second weekly call from the Port of Cork to the Port of Zeebrugge "to cope with the increasing demand on the current route", as the shipping company said in a press release. Adding...

30.11.2020

New Ireland-France service in 2021

In January 2021 DFDS will launch a new freight ferry service between Dunkirk in northern France and Rosslare in the Republic of Ireland. The route will be operated with three ferries, each with a capacity for up to 125 trucks....

30.11.2020

Newcomer to the Falklands finally arrives

The Falkland Islands Government Air Service (Figas) anticipated the arrival of its newest aircraft on 17 March. Iits southbound flight was delayed due to the Covid-19 situation; thus the Britten Norman Islander only arrived this...

30.11.2020

Roland Spedition mourns Johannes Blanka

Johannes Blanka (photo), a former managing director of Roland Spedition, died on 12 November 2020 from a coronavirus infection. Blanka shaped the company from its foundation in 1982. He was an essential figure in the...

30.11.2020

Astre Logística platform goes online

Astre, an association of European carriers, has launched Astre Logística, a service that helps SMEs and individuals to select suitable transport and logistics companies across Europe. The platform's aim is to simplify and...

30.11.2020

African locomotives transport 10 million t

Transnet Freight Rail (TFR) awarded Bombardier the contract to supply 240 electric locomotives in March 2014. Since then, Bombardier has been delivering the Traxx locomotives to Transnet as part of South Africa’s rail...

30.11.2020

ZIM lands Ladingo

The Haifa-based carrier ZIM that recently teamed up with alibaba.com, has introduced Ladingo’s technology which is expected to improve logistics services to both sellers and buyers on China’s largest e-commerce platform. The...

30.11.2020

Strange toys intercepted at US airports

A shipment of plastic toys turned out to have something a little more alive inside them at the Cincinnati port of entry of the US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) last week. Agriculture specialists were inspecting incoming...

30.11.2020

New CPO for Seven Senders

The delivery platform Seven Senders, which specialises in providing parcel services across Europe, has chosen a new chief product officer (CPO): Clemens Kress (photo) will take up the new challenges of a growing e-commerce...

30.11.2020

Stähler opts for EPG

Freight forwarder Spedition Stähler has decided to introduce a warehouse management system for its newly built 5,000 sqm storage facility in Limburg, Germany. Its choice fell on the EPG/LFS software developed by EPG (Ehrhardt +...

30.11.2020

"Curiosity of the Day"

Newfoundland dogs have webbed paws.

30.11.2020

Norway: new terminal to shift 400 trucks to rail

Norway’s first emission-free freight terminal will open in 2024. This could mean 400 fewer trucks in the centre of Bergen every day, the Norwegian infrastructure manager Bane NOR said. Today, goods arrive at Nygardstangen...

Die Güterbahn gewinnt

Das Fürstentum Liechtenstein ist wie viele Regionen Europas vom Stau auf den Strassen geplagt, die auch den Güterverkehr betreffen. Neben «intelligenten Strassen» soll künftig auch die Bahn mehr leisten. Die ÖBB führt deutlich...

27.11.2020

South-North intermodal service introduced

P&O Ferrymasters has launched a new multimodal service from Italy to Norway, offering businesses more options to transport their time-sensitive and valuable goods from the Mediterranean to Scandinavia. The service includes...

27.11.2020

Oversized Down Under

Aircraft charter solutions provider Chapman Freeborn recently managed an unusual cargo operation in Australia. The cargo, which weighed 92 t and consisted of 17 t pieces 15 m long, was manufactured in Germany and sent to Western...

27.11.2020

A mark in Australia's container exchange

The OOCL “Rotterdam”, with a capacity of more than 8,000 teu and sailing on the North East Asia A3 central service, has set a new record within the Port of Melbourne, Australia, for the hitherto highest container exchange in one...

27.11.2020

Boaz Levy as IAI's new CEO

Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) has approved the search committee's recommendation to nominate Boaz Levy (photo) as IAI's CEO. The nomination will be submitted to the minister of defence, Benjamin Gantz, and to the minister...