In 2018 Rhenus Alpina, the Swiss arm of the Rhenus Group, saw its revenues rise by around 10% to CHF 346 million (2017: CHF 314 million). As a whole the market environment remained demanding throughout the year, but despite all...
Big Lift Shipping is to operate the four heavy transport vessels of the new cooperation it inked with Chung Yang Shipping. The combination of two pairs of sisterships – the "Bi Lift Barentsz" and "Big Lift...
At the 467th meeting of the association, Nick Weston, CEO of Weston Aviation, was appointed chairman of Baca – the air charter association. Weston succeeds Richard Mumford, who has held the role since 2016. Weston assumed his new...
Austrian Federal Railways (OeBB) has ordered 61 Vectron MS locomotives from Siemens. With this order, the railway is calling a further option from the framework contract for the delivery of up to 200 Vectron locomotives that was...
Germany’s President Frank-Walter Steinmeier has become the patron of “Airlift 70 - the return of the candy bombers”, an event that commemorates the allied airlift to West Berlin. From 10 to 17 June 2019, many original...
Dematic is automating the warehouse of IVF Hartmann, a provider of medical consumables located in Neuhausen am Rheinfall (Switzerland). The intralogistics specialist is equipping IVF Hartmann’s new 400 sqm building with a...
AAR, an independent provider of aviation and defence aftermarket solutions headquartered near Chicago (IL), has been awarded a USD 10.8 million order from the US Air Force (USAF) for the production of 463L cargo pallets. The...
Saudi Airlines Cargo Company has appointed Per Hojland executive director, cargo operations worldwide. Hojland, a Danish national, took up his new position in Jeddah in March. He joins Saudia Cargo after having spent the past...
The Transmec Group has expanded its intermodal services by launching a new route. The first train to Lodz (Poland) departed from Oradea (Romania) on 20 March, in cooperation with P&O Ferrymasters. The shuttle initially...
A Kindle e-book reader that stores books is heavier than an empty device. However, the weight difference is only about 0.000,000,000,000,000,001 grams and cannot be measured.
The German company Picavi wants to serve North American markets in a more efficient manner. Given this aim, the provider of pick-by-vision solutions for picking activities in intralogistics has founded a subsidiary named Picavi...
People have been aware of the negotiations since 2018: now, the consortium around the port operator PSA International has inked the acquisition of Poland's largest port container terminal for a total of EUR 1.1 billion. The...
The port of Trieste on Italy’s Adriatic coast is celebrating its 300th anniversary this year. The Austrian rail company ÖBB and the port have taken the opportunity to sign two declarations of intent to promote railfreight...
The breakbulk and project heavy lift carrier AAL has shipped 22 petrochemical plant modules from the Wilson Heavy Industry Company in Nantong (China), to the ethylene glycol II expansion project (EGEP) in Point Comfort TX (USA)...
Time Matters, Lufthansa Cargo's expert in high performance and special speed logistics, has extended its network for same-day transports by adding another station in western France. In addition to Nantes, some 60 direct...
VIIA, which belongs to the SNCF group, has launched a new service for truck transport on the French railway network. With immediate effect, a ro-la train will serve the multimodal port of Aproport at Mâcon, north of Lyon, on the...
Panattoni Europe is constructing an around 7,000 sqm building containing a hall, offices and staff rooms for the service provider Dachser. The new facility is a mere 4 km away from Dachser’s existing Maas-Rhine logistics centre...
Walter Prosetti has been appointed global chartering director of the Trans Global Projects Group (TGP) with immediate effect. Prosetti has more than three decades of international chartering experience. Before joining TGP, he...
World Animal Protection recently claimed that "Turkish Airlines transported African grey parrots between Kinshasa and Kuwait via Istanbul, with more than 60 birds found dead on arrival". A month ago in Johannesburg, the...
Norway-based DNV has announced that all DNV GL classed vessels are now able to utilise remote surveys for certain inspections. This dispenses with the need for a DNV GL inspector to board a vessel. Instead, documentation,...
