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01.10.2020

New ICTS Group country manager for Belgium

From today, 1 October 2020, Peter Andries (left) joins the ICTS Group as country manager for Belgium. After obtaining his degree in applied sciences in Leuven, Andries gained extensive leasing experience at De Lage Landen (Rabo...

01.10.2020

Craiss wins automotive customer in Kornwestheim

Albert Craiss is joining the supply chain of a well-known German automobile manufacturer. The logistics expert from Mühlacker, Germany has been responsible for storing and order picking car body parts in Kornwestheim since...

01.10.2020

Warehouse for SME and consumers

Today, DSV is opening its first self-storage building in Copenhagen as part of the company’s growing engagement in the BtC self-storage market. Aimed at consumers and small businesses, Smarter Storage, the Danish company’s...

01.10.2020

Antwerp looks for concessionaire

Despite the global pressure on the breakbulk trade, the port of Antwerp plans to push this segment. The Churchill Dock, located in the middle of the Belgian port, is set to become a fully-fledged ‘breakbulk dock’. On the...

30.09.2020

P400 connection Novara - Bari introduced

Hupac has launched a new direct P400 service linking Bari (Ferruccio) in southeast Italy with Novara (CIM) near Milan in the northwest of the country. Novara is one of Hupac's largest hubs in Italy with a wide range of services...

30.09.2020

Cemex and UP join forces

Cemex and Union Pacific Railroad (UP) have formed an operational partnership to transport liquid carbon dioxide from Port Freeport in Texas, USA to Mexico. Under the new agreement, Cemex transloads the liquid carbon dioxide from...

30.09.2020

World's first E195 adapted freighter certified

Having received certification for the world’s first Embraer E195 adapted dedicated cargo aircraft, Azul took it into commercial service on 26 September. With the conversion of another three aircraft expected by the end of 2020,...

30.09.2020

New shareholder at BTK

Bernhard Reichert has handed his shares over to Josef Heiss, who will head BTK Befrachtungs- und Transportkontor, a logistics services provider, in a dual leadership with Franz Weiss in future. The shareholders will each hold 50%...

30.09.2020

Bolloré handles out of gauge equipment for substation

Bolloré Logistics was contracted to transport and deliver out of gauge cargo from Spain to Shango substation in Rwanda through the port of Mombasa (Kenya). The cargo consisted of eight shunt reactors each weighing 29 t, and...

30.09.2020

Multi-function terminal in Trieste in German majority

After participating in ports in Odessa (Ukraine) and Tallinn (Estonia), the Hamburger Hafen und Logistik AG (HHLA) is taking a majority stake of 50.01% in the multi-function terminal "Piattaforma Logistica Trieste"...

30.09.2020

Cincinnati CBP teams: No, drugs are not vital!

On 15 September, US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officers in Cincinnati seized a shipment containing 13 kg of cocaine concealed in 11 pouches labelled as shelf-stable "emergency food rations". The cocaine has a...

30.09.2020

Houston back to pre-pandemic trade flows?

For the first six months of this year, container traffic at Port Houston declined just 2.3% compared to the same period last year, according to the Texan port's records. Houston’s container activity in August now came close to...

30.09.2020

RZD Logistics expands in Eastern Europe

Russian Far East Land Bridge (FELB), a subsidiary of RZD Logistics, has signed a strategic cooperation agreement with Czechian CD Cargo Logistic. This partnership will be the next step in the development of FELB’s logistics...

30.09.2020

Kirsten de Bruijn joins Qatar Airways Cargo

Kirsten de Bruijn has joined Qatar Airways Cargo as senior vice president, cargo sales and network planning. According to Guillaume Halleux, chief officer cargo at Qatar Airways, de Bruijn was the obvious choice: “We share the...

30.09.2020

Loxxess expands contract with Vodafone

Since 2011, Loxxess has been handling around two million orders per year for its customer Vodafone in 13 of Germany's 16 federal states. With the extension of the contract to cover the whole of the country, Loxxess can now...

30.09.2020

Reducing delivery time from 36 to three months

Since many school districts are looking for ways to deliver devices to children to assist with e-learning, Alaska Air Cargo and its network recently moved 12,000+ iPads and cases from Boston to Seattle that will go to Seattle...

30.09.2020

MSC on EHSQ

On the world maritime day, the Switzerland-based carrier published its fourth report on sustainability. This year's report, called ‘Sustainable shipping for a sustainable planet’, also raised awareness of the United Nations'...

30.09.2020

"Curiosity of the Day"

New Zealand's kea parrots sometimes throw stones at tourists.

30.09.2020

Scania East Africa chooses managing director

Scania East Africa has appointed Lars Eklund as the company’s managing director effective 1 October 2020, where he will also be heading the East Africa business unit that covers Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda and Rwanda. He brings...

30.09.2020

Wagon keeper goes on the safety offensive

Safety on the railways involves more than technical regulations and procedures. Human factors are at least as important. Wagon keeper Ermewa is therefore going on the offensive: over the next few months, its 220 employees will...