MAB Kargo selects M&C as GSA in Australia

With effect from today (1 March 2019), the Australian business of MAB Kargo, the freight division of Malaysia Airlines, will be represented by M&C Aviation. M&C Aviation, incorporated in Singapore, specialises in GSSA...

Drewry sees hope for post-Brexit Dover

The London-based maritime consulting Drewry has analysed the port of Dover's possibilities in a Brexit environment. The firm's study says that the UK port has resilience to cope with "moderate disruption", as Drewry put...

Panalpina betters bottom line

Panalpina presented mostly positive figures for 2018 at its headquarters in Basel (Switzerland). The takeover offer tabled by DSV and the possible collaboration with Agility were not mentioned. CEO Stefan Karlen said the two...

Kerry appoints manager for Spain and Portugal

Kerry Logistics has appointed Marc Porta as managing director of its entities in Spain and Portugal. Based in Barcelona (Spain), Porta will be responsible for driving the business development strategy in the two countries,...

“Curiosity of the Day”

The only Japanese citizen who survived the sinking of the Titanic in 1912 lost his job when he returned home. He was accused of cowardice because he left the ship.

Shipping line introduces rail transfer in the USA

APL’s eagle express x (EXX) service is going the extra mile with the new EXX railflash from Los Angeles to Chicago, Memphis, Dallas and Kansas City (USA). Promising an express rail transfer from the US west coast, EXX...

USD 2 billion

MSC senior vice-president Pasquale Formisano recently told the Propeller Club Basel about the ongoing adjustments to his shipping line’s fleet to 2020 and beyond.

New vehicle for new division

Sweden: railfreight traffic flourishes in 2018

Around 398,000 teu were transported by rail to/from the port of Gothenburg (Sweden) in 2018. The number of rail containers shipped to/from the port rose by 13%, compared to 2017. The increase actually surged to 27% in Q4/2018....

MAC and Cape Air partner for pilots

The US regional carrier Cape Air and Mountain Air Cargo (MAC), a Denver CO-based airline which operate 35 Fedex Cessna Caravans and 18 Fedex ATRs on 100 daily scheduled flights, are to introduce a new pilot hiring pathway...

MOL and Singapore banking on LNG

Pavilion Gas (PGPL) and the Japanese carrier MOL have signed a long-term charter contract. According to the pact, MOL will operate Asia’s hitherto largest (12,000 cbm class) LNG bunkering vessel in Singapore. Demand for LNG as...

Europa expands hub in preparation for Brexit

Three years after its inauguration, Europa Worldwide Group, a major supplier of logistics services, has invested GBP 2 million in a reconfiguration programme at its hub in Dartford (United Kingdom). The upgrade was part of a...

Forthcoming amendment to K+N board

Jürgen Fitschen and Hans Lerch, who have served on the board of directors of Kuehne + Nagel International (K+N) for eleven and 14 years respectively, will step down at the company’s annual general meeting on 7 May 2019, and not...

Improved access to port of Abidjan

The expanded and deepened Vridi Canal (Ivory Coast) was recently inaugurated. The waterway connects the port of Abidjan and the Atlantic via the Ebrié Lagoon. The China Harbor Engineering Company required three years to...

Australian steel for inland rail network

Construction work on the 1,700 km long inland rail freight line between Melbourne and Brisbane (both Australia), is making progress. Some 14,000 t of Australian steel have been delivered to the site for the Parkes to Narromine...

Andreas Behnke to head Swissport Basel

Swissport has appointed Andreas Behnke as CEO and station manager at Basel’s trinational Euroairport. In his new role, he will be responsible for all the company’s activities in the airport ground services, air cargo handling,...

BUD Cargo City gains another lessee

The Austrian logistics services provider cargo-partner will lease facilities at BUD Cargo City, the forwarding hub at Budapest airport, which will open at the end of 2019. The hub will comprise 7,500 sqm of storage space as...

Hermes Logistics Technologies augments teams

Hermes Logistics Technologies (HLT) is continuing to expand its teams in India and the UK as its flagship cargo management system, Hermes 5 (H5), is adopted by cargo ground handlers, airlines and airports across the globe....

Trade war still makes no impact on world trade

The flash estimate for the container throughput index published by the German research body Rheinisch-Westfälisches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung (RWI - Leibniz) and the Institute of Shipping Economics and Logistics (ISL)...

US president backs Boeing's footprint in Vietnam

On the fringe of the summit between US president Donald Trump and the North Korean leader Kim Jong-un in Hanoi, two privately-held Vietnamese airlines have signed big airplane orders with Boeing. Vietjet has purchased 100...