28.08.2020

Customs head to drive Brexit plan

Driving forward with its Brexit preparations Europa Worldwide Group has hired a head of customs as the chief of its customs team. Belgian Lieven Hendrickx has an 30-year track record with logistics operators, having worked across...
28.08.2020

UK container hubs to receive new equipment

Freightliner and Pentalver, subsidiaries of Genesee & Wyoming (G&W), have made a significant investment in 75 new lifting and handling machines to be deployed at their container terminals throughout the UK. The...
28.08.2020

STI relies on Sixfold

The Duisburg (Germany)-based logistics company STI Freight Management continues to press ahead with the digitalisation of its transport solutions. Its endeavours are supported by a cooperation with Sixfold, whose platform...
28.08.2020

"Curiosity of the Day"

There is a cloud in outer space that contains one sextillion litres of alcohol. That is a 1 followed by 36 zeros. However, the alcohol is not suitable for drinking and the cloud is 10,000 light years away from Earth. 
28.08.2020

Green Laurels for Barcelona

The Port of Barcelona was awarded the lean & green initiative, promoted by the Spanish association of manufacturers and distributors (Aecoc), for reducing its carbon footprint by 20% in a period of five years through "a...
27.08.2020

New shuttle links Ural with the Far East regions

Fesco is expanding its domestic network for regular container services. The new Ural Amur shuttle connects Ekaterinburg in the east of the Ural and Khabarovsk, Sverdlovsk Oblast near the Russian-Chinese border. Trains will...
27.08.2020

Enhancing BMT in Algeria

Bejaia Mediterranean Terminal (BMT SPA), operated by Portek International in a joint venture with the Algerian port authority, Enterprise Portuaire de Bejaia, is expanding its equipment. Since its first foray into port...
27.08.2020

Medway opens logistics platform

Medway recently inaugurated its terminal in Sines, Portugal. The hub has a total area of 33,000 sqm and capacity for about 2,000 teu. The logistics platform provides handling equipment, container parking, cargo consolidation...
27.08.2020

Optimised network with a new facility in Hesse

Pharmaceuticals and other sensitive and high-value goods can be sorted and transported through Germany more quickly, ecologically and economically in future. This is why trans-o-flex is celebrating the laying of the foundation...
27.08.2020

From Unesco to the ministry of transport

Unesco's assistant director-general for communication and information Moez Chakchouk has been officially nominated for the position as minister of transport and logistics by the prime minister-designate of the Republic of...
27.08.2020

TTI Algeciras to change hands

HMM has agreed to sell its 50% stake minus one share in Total Terminal International Algeciras (TTI Algeciras) to CMA CGM. The container terminal in the south of Spain is owned by HMM and HT Algeciras, which is a special...
27.08.2020

Biggest blueberry season threatened by Covid-19

According to the South African berry producers association a crop of 17,000 t is expected this year, mostly set for export. Faced with airfreight rates much higher than before Covid-19 and a lack of international flights from...
27.08.2020

Damco's BR programme supports Lebanon team

Damco’s Beirut-based team, working with the forwarder’s business resilience (BR) programme, had operations in Lebanon back up and running within 24 hours of this month’s devastating explosion at the port of Beirut. Staff at...
27.08.2020

Another TIR corridor launched in Asia

Following several successful pilot operations in Central Asia and the Persian Gulf, a new TIR corridor has been activated from Iran to Uzbekistan, using the route via Afghanistan for the first time. Two sealed TIR containers...
27.08.2020

Lynn Houston Moore promoted to CEO of HJI

Louisville-based HJI Supply Chain Solutions (HJI) has announced that Lynn Houston Moore has been promoted to the position of CEO. This announcement reflects the culmination of a six-year succession planning strategy to place...
27.08.2020

GTA Dnata to begin operations in Vancouver

GTA Dnata has been awarded a five-year ground handling licence and will establish operations at Vancouver airport. Starting in the fourth quarter of 2020, the company will provide cargo warehousing, ramp and passenger services to...
27.08.2020

LGI uses cloud service at LIS

LGI Logistics Group International (LGI) has been using the cloud services provided by LIS Logistische Informationssysteme (LIS) for managing its transports since the beginning of August. After many years of successful transport...
27.08.2020

Italian Brenner extension takes shape

The construction of the EUR 1.15 billion Verona-Fortezza line has taken a step forward. The Italian infrastructure manager RFI has published the call for tender for the final design and execution of the section of the line...
27.08.2020

Cool chain for Ethiopia

After several years of preparation, the first intermodal transport of perishables from Ethiopia to Europe is underway. The first reefer container with 24 t of avocados was loaded onto a train in Ethipia and will be shipped via...
27.08.2020

"Curiosity of the Day"

The black widow was incorrectly named from the false belief that the female always eats the male after mating.
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