17.01.2019

“Curiosity of the Day”

A farmer in Colorado beheaded a cockerel in September 1945. That did not kill the bird and it continued to run round jauntily - something that is not uncommon. However, the chicken managed to live for another 18 months. An...
17.01.2019

DSV goes shopping in Basel

Panalpina, a Basel (Switzerland)-based logistics corporation, could lose its independence. The group’s board of directors has received an unsolicited, non-binding takeover proposal from DSV. The Danish company is offering CHF...
17.01.2019

Bangladesh Railway ordering big locomotive batch

Bangladesh Railway is purchasing 40 new broad gauge locomotives from the US manufacturer Progress Rail. The two companies have signed an agreement covering the deal. The rail service provider has 94 broad gauge locomotives,...
16.01.2019

Golden logistics for all that glitters

The Austrian luxury goods firm Swarovski runs around 3,000 shops worldwide. Before its crystal figurines and jewellery reach clients, however, they have to pass through a logistics centre in Triesen (Liechtenstein).
16.01.2019

Pressing on with trans-Asian railway network

The UN Economic and Social Commission for Asia (UNESCAP) and the Intergovernmental Organisation for International Carriage by Rail (OTIF) have signed a MoU connected to their common wish to develop rail transport in Asia,...
16.01.2019

Turkish Cargo joins Animal Transportation Association

Turkish Cargo has become a member of the Animal Transportation Association (ATA), one of the international organisations which aims to transport live animals under safe and ideal conditions. Members of the non-profit ATA...
16.01.2019

Taking next blockchain technology step

The pilot blockchain project that the carrier Zim ran over the last year is now entering its next phase. The blockchain technology-based paperless bills-of-lading platform has been tested for trade activities on multiple shipping...
16.01.2019

ALC appoints Kirk Coningham as CEO

The Australian Logistics Council (ALC) has appointed Kirk Coningham as its new permanent CEO. He commences his responsibilities at the ALC Secretariat in Canberra. Coningham was the national executive director of the Urban...
16.01.2019

US railway provides solid help to industry

Norfolk Southern (NS) generated more than 60,000 carloads of new rail traffic in 2018 that helped 90 industries locate or expand business operations along the company’s rail lines in the USA. The 72 new and 18 expanded...
16.01.2019

The latest from Zürcher Kies und Transport

The family-owned company, Zürcher Kies und Transport, is a prominent player in Switzerland’s heavylift and special transport industry. Although the company became part of the Eberhard construction group at the beginning of...
16.01.2019

First Middle East carrier awarded Iata CEIV Pharma certification

Etihad Cargo has set a benchmark in the region by becoming the Middle East’s first carrier to be awarded Iata’s Centre of Excellence for Independent Validators (CEIV) certification in Pharmaceutical Logistics. Together with...
16.01.2019

More about scrubbers and sulphur

The Clean Shipping Alliance 2020 (CSA 2020), a group comprised of around 30 companies in the commercial shipping and cruise industries formed in late 2018, has contracted Maritime AMC (Mamcl) to provide secretariat services for...
16.01.2019

Mosolf expanding advisory board

The Mosolf Group is augmenting its advisory board with Detthold Aden, former CEO of BLG Logistics Group. Mosolf’s CEO Jörg Mosolf remarked: "With Aden, my company gains an outstanding managerial personality and an impulse...
16.01.2019

Denmark eases pocket wagon ban

The Danish Transport, Building and Housing Authority has allowed Luxembourg-based CFL and TX Logistik (Germany) to resume the use of pocket wagons to transport semi-trailers on the country’s rail network, with immediate effect....
16.01.2019

Agility opens new hub in Bahrain

Agility has opened a 28'500 sqm facility with 17,000 pallet slots in Hidd (Bahrain) to expand its warehousing, freight, transport and specialty capabilities and serve as a regional logistics and distribution hub. Costing USD...
16.01.2019

Emirates adds freighter destination in Latin America

From today (16 January 2019), Emirates Skycargo is serving the Colombian capital Bogota once per week with a B777F that offers an overall cargo capacity of over 100 t. Bogota becomes the carrier's sixth cargo destination in South...
16.01.2019

Clarkson paints sceptical picture of shipping in 2019

Research undertaken by London-headquartered Clarkson revealed that the growth rate of the demand for world maritime transport rose by 2.7% to 11.9 billion t in 2018, compared to 4.2% in 2017. The ton per mile (tpm) growth,...
16.01.2019

Rune Dybedal to chair NSOCC

North P&I Club’s Rune Dybedal has been appointed chairman of the North Sea Operators' Claims Conference (NSOCC). Dybedal, a Norwegian qualified attorney, has worked as an attorney and senior claims executive at North for 19...
16.01.2019

Port of Hamburg gets direct link to Singen terminal

Eurogate Intermodal (EGIM) has introduced a new direct rail connection between the port of Hamburg and the Singen terminal in Baden-Württemberg. The terminal is a road/rail cargo hub serving southern Germany with a focus on the...
16.01.2019

“Curiosity of the Day”

There are some 20 million songs on Spotify, but 4 million of them have not been streamed yet.
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