21.01.2019

2018 - favourable for Spanish ports

Spanish ports generally performed well in 2018, although full year figures have not been published as yet. According to the data published by Puertos de Estado, a total of 502.5 million t were moved in the first eleven months of...
21.01.2019

Freightliner lands large bulk haulage contract

Freightliner Heavy Haul, part of the US company Genesee & Wyoming, recently started to haul aggregate from quarries in northern Somerset to terminals in London and southeast England. Last year, Freightliner and Mendips...
21.01.2019

Imperial Logistics strengthens Swiss office

Sandro Knecht has been recruited for Imperial Logistics International’s newly-created post of chief commercial officer. Based at the company’s new offices in Zurich, and reporting to recently-appointed CEO Hakan Bicil, Knecht...
21.01.2019

“Curiosity of the Day”

If a zebra is crossed with a horse, one gets a zebroid.
21.01.2019

Unicarriers delivers forklift fleet to Nex Logistics

The logistics service provider Nex Logistics, a subsidiary of Japan-based Nippon Express, has ordered a forklift fleet from Unicarriers for its warehouse in Bedburg/Erft (Germany). A total of 37 new vehicles now ensure a smooth...
18.01.2019

Dare to think big

The joint venture was first called the Oman International Container Terminal; it was founded twelve years ago by Hutchison Ports, the government of the Sultanate of Oman, Steinweg from the Netherlands and Omani investors. Now its...
18.01.2019

Biggest rise in Poland, biggest drop in Germany

In 2017, railfreight transport in the European Union rose to 416 billion tonne-kilometres (tkm), 13 billion tkm more than in 2016, or a 3.2% year-on-year increase, according to the latest statistics. In 2017, railfreight...
18.01.2019

Drewry with less confidence in ULCVs

“We believe that the industry’s supply-demand balance will benefit from a reduced appetite for ultra large container vessels (ULCVs), said Simon Heaney, senior manager, container research at the London-based maritime consultancy...
18.01.2019

GTA Dnata with North American first in Toronto

GTA Dnata, the joint venture company of the Dubai-based ground handling services provider Dnata in Canada, has been certified by Iata's Center of Excellence for Independent Validators in Pharmaceutical Logistics (CEIV Pharma) for...
18.01.2019

Sisa moves to new premises

Sisa, a provider of IT solutions for electronic customs clearance, has moved its office for Switzerland’s German-speaking region from Reinach to Aesch in canton Baselland. The relocation creates suitable conditions for the Swiss...
18.01.2019

Heavylift transport through Czechia

Transporting a 170 t heavy crane is no easy task. However, Nosreti, a subsidiary of Universal Transport, recently completed this feat in Czechia. The haulage task began at the crane’s manufacturing plant in Brno and ended at a...
18.01.2019

Norfolk Southern to expand US terminal capacity

Kalmar, part of Cargotec, has signed a deal to supply the US railway company Norfolk Southern with four Kalmar Smart Power rubber-tyred gantry cranes (RTGs) equipped with a suite of process automation solutions. Delivery should...
18.01.2019

Four new B777Fs for Lufthansa Cargo and Aerologic

Lufthansa Cargo will take delivery of a fourth new freighter in autumn 2019. The B777F will be leased from Boeing and operated by Aerologic at Leipzig/Halle airport (Germany). This will take the fleet of Aerologic, a joint...
18.01.2019

Ocean Alliance on course up to 2027

The CMA CGM Group, Cosco Shipping, Evergreen and OOCL have signed a contract to continue their cooperation until 2027. In addition, the partners will introduce, inter alia, the "Ocean Alliance Day 3 product" for Asia...
18.01.2019

New ops manager for new logistics centre

Volker Weidemann has been recruited as operations manager of Hermes Fulfilment’s 76,000 sqm logistics centre that is currently being built in Ansbach (Germany). In his new role, he will be responsible for warehouse logistics for...
18.01.2019

Arnold Group enlarges business field

The Arnold Group, based in in Rimpar, between Frankfurt and Nuremberg (Germany), has added a new division – Arnold Logistics – to its existing heavylift business field (Arnold Schwerlast) and forwarding sector (Arnold Spedition)....
18.01.2019

Improving rail access to northeast corridor in USA

In the USA, Quonset Development Corporation has received a USD 3 million federal grant for the Quonset freight rail enhancements and expansion project, designed to increase freight train capacity at the Quonset Business Park and...
18.01.2019

Pegasus starts working with TCM provider

Turkey-based Pegasus Airlines has signed a total cargo management (TCM) service agreement with World Cargo Solutions DMCC. From 1 January 2019, the Dusseldorf (Germany)-based GSSA began exclusively marketing the full cargo...
18.01.2019

From Bilbao into the Caribbean

After some complicated manoeuvres, a fully erected crane was loaded onto a ship at the port of Bilbao (Spain). The equipment is bound for a container terminal in Guadeloupe in the Caribbean Sea. The twelve hour loading operation...
18.01.2019

UPS creates position President Supply Chain Solutions

Philippe Gilbert is joining UPS as president, supply chain solutions this month (January). He will also become a member of the company’s management committee, the company’s senior most leadership group. Gilbert will be based at...
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