18.02.2020

Galliker receives first series-manufactured e-truck

Volvo Trucks recently launched the series production of electric trucks. The Swedish truck manufacturer has now handed over the first truck of this production line to the Swiss transport company Galliker. “For us, taking delivery...
18.02.2020

Complementing the big alliances

The new partner is from South Korea. After HMM officially joined The Alliance, the shipping company carrier SM Line has agreed with 2M Alliance to co-operate on the Asia-America route starting 1 April this year. The 2M Alliance...
18.02.2020

Coronavirus accentuates Hong Kong cargo decline

During the first month of 2020, cargo throughput at Hong Kong airport dropped to 359,000 t, 10.4% downswing compared to the same month last year. The world's biggest air cargo hub said that this was due to closure of factories...
18.02.2020

Sven-Eric Brooks joins KVH

Global maritime connectivity provider KVH has announced that Sven-Eric Brooks has joined the company as senior director of business development for KVH Watch, the company’s new maritime IoT solution. “This is an exciting time...
18.02.2020

Lödige Industries outfits automotive plant in Mexico

Lödige Industries continues its collaboration with the BMW Group by providing automated storage and buffer systems for BMW’s new automobile manufacturing plant in San Luis Potosi, Mexico. The project is designed to be a...
18.02.2020

Big shift by PIL in March

Pacific International Lines’ (PIL) is shifting its regional focus. The shipping company, which was founded in 1967, will withdraw its services from the Transpacific market. As a result of this service re-alignment, PIL’s last...
18.02.2020

Polish intermodal operator orders 200 freight cars

Laude Smart Intermodal in Poland has ordered 200 flat cars on 25 t axle load bogies from the Russian manufacturer UWC. The vehicles are used for the transportation of heavy-duty containers along the 1,520-mm track gauge corridor...
18.02.2020

CCM names Michael Mitchell SVP and COO

Consolidated Chassis Management (CCM) has promoted Michael Mitchell to senior vice president and COO. A 30-year industry veteran, Mitchell has been with CCM since its launch in 2005. “Given Mitchell’s success as CCM’s Interim...
18.02.2020

Cool Chain Association partners with Cargo iQ

The Cool Chain Association (CCA) is backing a new Cargo iQ initiative for care mapping in the temperature-controlled supply chain. CCA members will join an advisory board supporting Cargo iQ's pilot programme, which aims to...
18.02.2020

ESR to develop large logistics facility in Japan

ESR, a large APAC focused logistics real estate platform, will invest an estimated JPY 27 billion (USD 245 million) to develop the ESR Yatomi Kisosaki distribution centre, which is set to be the largest modern logistics facility...
18.02.2020

Rising African star to launch new services to Europe

In exactly four months, on 18 June 2020, the up-and-coming company Air Sénégal will launch a thrice weekly A321 service to Geneva. This is Geneva’s first regular destination to West Africa since 1996, and marks a new step in the...
18.02.2020

More berths for the port of Corpus Christi

The Texan Port of Corpus Christi has been awarded a USD 17 million federal grant for the first phase of the Avery Point Terminal redevelopment. Thus the expansion of Oil Dock 3 (OD3) as the first of four phases in this project is...
18.02.2020

Take-over strengthens position in Northern Europe

Dutch forwarder Van den Bosch has acquired Swedish Willis Larsson Transport. This family-owned company, founded in 1961, has gained a strong position in the intermodal transport of dry bulk goods. With its own modern fleet of...
18.02.2020

West of England P&I Club expands New York office

The marine insurer West of England is expanding its New York office. Senior claims manager Emily McCulloch transferred to New York from London at the beginning of the year and will be joined by Alton Peralta, a locally qualified...
18.02.2020

Bolloré Logistics joins MRO Blockchain Alliance

At the Singapore air show, Bolloré Logistics announced that it has joined the MRO (maintenance, repair and overhaul) Blockchain Alliance. This alliance aims to bring the different stakeholders together to set a global standard...
18.02.2020

“Curiosity of the Day”

Irish and Germans and the descendants of African American slaves used to live in the area now covered by Central Park in New York City. Their settlements were called Pigtown Seneca Village and Yorkville.

Neues Juwel in der Krone?

Die Binnenschifffahrt wird als Verkehrsträger in den USA oftmals ebenso vernachlässigt wie in Europa. In der Folge öffentlicher Investitionen wittern aber auch die privaten Operateure wieder Morgenluft, wie eine frische...
17.02.2020

Californian hauliers' heavy duty trucks to be fully electric

Volvo Trucks has offered a first look at its North American Class 8 battery-electric project trucks. In Europe, Volvo Trucks has already started sales of e-trucks for urban transports. The Volvo VNR Electric project trucks will...
17.02.2020

Emirates adds truck service to 30 year old connection

Emirates Skycargo launched its operations to Riyadh in February 1990. The freight division of Emirates currently offers just over 1,000 t of combined export and import cargo capacity through 27 weekly flights. Since 2015, the...
17.02.2020

Spanish ports benefit from trade transformation

The 46 Spanish state ports handled almost 564,6 million t in the course of the year 2019 - a new historical record mark. Over the last decade (2010-2019), port traffic has increased at an average rate of 3% per year, from 432.5...
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