23.01.2019

Railrunner Europe slides into the doldrums

Railrunner Europe, a subsidiary of the US-based company Railrunner, is in financial difficulties. The bankruptcy court of Hamburg has already appointed a preliminary insolvency administrator.  The intermodal operator said...
23.01.2019

2018 good for port of Lubeck

Lübecker Hafen-Gesellschaft (LHG), operator of the port of Lubeck (Germany), was able to boost its 2018 throughput by 1.2% to around 22.1 million t. The container handling sector noted an almost 4% increase. Ro-ro traffic...
23.01.2019

Transatlantic partners moving to new LHR premises

Virgin Atlantic Cargo and Delta Cargo are to move into the new purpose-built Dnata City East at London Heathrow airport. Scheduled for H2/2019, the move supports the airlines’ growing cargo businesses, enhances their...
23.01.2019

Panalpina strengthens marketing and sales in Europe

Christian Stingl has joined Panalpina as regional head of marketing and sales for Europe. Stingl will be based in Frankfurt and report directly to the regional CEO Europe with a dotted line to the chief commercial officer....
23.01.2019

Fewer missing links in supply chain

Cargo-partner now offers its own purchase order management service. The Austrian logistics company says it will use it to ensure that customers’ deliveries arrive on time and complete - regardless of whatever transport service...
23.01.2019

Eddie Stobart to extend UK rail offering

Eddie Stobart Logistics (ESL) intends to launch a new rail service from the port of Tilbury to Daventry (both UK). The new offer will be the only rail operation from the port for inbound traffic – with a forecast capacity of 200...
23.01.2019

Belfast Container Terminal orders new RGTs

The Belfast Container Terminal (BCT) in Northern Ireland has ordered eight automated rubber-tyred gantry cranes (AutoRTGs) from Kalmar. Delivery is scheduled to commence at the end of 2019. BCT is owned by and located in...
23.01.2019

Stability in western Med

Marseille Airport handled 56700 t of freight in 2018, 1% more than in 2017. The increase demonstrated Marseille’s position as the leading regional airport for express freight at home in France and in the Western Mediterranean....
23.01.2019

Greencarrier sets up shop in Tianjin

Greencarrier Freight Services has strengthened its position in mainland China by opening up a new office in Tianjin. The new office, the seventh in the country, will be led by Helena Wang, who currently works as operations...
23.01.2019

“Curiosity of the Day”

Lobsters used to be regarded as "cockroaches of the seas". They were served to prison inmates.
23.01.2019

Panhard erects new logistics centre in Le Havre port

Logistics provider Panhard and Haropa, operator of the port of Le Havre (France), have signed a contract covering the construction of a new logistics centre in the port’s grounds. Building work on the 49,000 sqm platform will...
23.01.2019

New train between Zeebrugge and northern France

As from 12 February 2019, the Belgium port of Zeebrugge will have a rail connection to the Delta 3 multimodal platform in Dourges, in northern France.  From Dourges there are rail connections to destinations in southern...
22.01.2019

US class I railroad invests in Illinois and New Mexico

BNSF has two new certified industrial locations in Illinois and in New Mexico (both USA). The designated site in Illinois is the Galesburg logistics park with more than 121 ha of shovel-ready land for development and is zoned for...
22.01.2019

Port of Kiel notes slight decline in 2018

In 2018, the port of Kiel did not succeed in achieving the record result it noted in 2017 (7.4 million t, +14.3%), as last year's throughput fell by 3.5% to 7.15 million t. The German port’s core business is ferry traffic,...
22.01.2019

Belarusian Railway boosts digital freight transport

Belarusian Railway has launched a new mobile app powered by a mobile platform sub-system that operates as part of a computerised system for digital process flows in freight transport. All participants involved in railfreight...
22.01.2019

Cushman & Wakefield reinforces investment team

Cushman & Wakefield (C&W) has appointed Nicole Römer as head of retail investment in Germany. She also becomes an international partner of the company. Alexander Kropf, C&W’s head of capital markets Germany, said:...
22.01.2019

Panalpina's transatlantic service happy and Brexit-ready

Mexico-based Querétaro airport (QRO), which was added to the Panalpina charter network (see page 14 of ITJ 23-26/2018) last May, is performing very well. Matthias Frey, global head of the charter network: "We closed...
22.01.2019

International business of Flying Cargo acquired

After nearly 30 years of close cooperation in the provision of international express transport services to the Israeli market, Fedex Express and Flying Cargo Group (FCG) have reached a conditional agreement under which the US...
22.01.2019

CMA CGM unites Containerships and MacAndrews brands

CMA CGM is to consolidate its Containerships and MacAndrews brands under the single brand Containerships, as of 1 April 2019. The integration of the local agencies networks is part of the step. The carrier banks on both maritime...
22.01.2019

SBB Cargo to go it alone

The Swiss federal railway SBB spun off its railfreight division from the group and began managing it as an independent group company at the beginning of 2019. As an independent entity, SBB Cargo will be able to implement the...
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