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01.12.2023

Port of Rotterdam appoints regional German representative

Starting today, 1 December 2023, Ulrich Reuter represents the port of Rotterdam in the German federal state of North Rhine-Westphalia. He succeeded Wolfgang Hönemann, who held this position for five years and retired...

01.12.2023

US short line railroad changes hands

Omnitrax and West Virginia’s department of transportation have concluded a takeover of the South Branch Valley Railroad (SBVR), making the entity the 26th railroad in the Omnitrax network. SBVR has thus joined the economic...

01.12.2023

Cargo handling for new carrier at CGN

Maersk Air Freight has awarded a multi-year contract to Dnata in Germany. Dnata will handle around 6,000 t of cargo annually for the new air cargo player, which currently operates weekly flights between Cologne Bonn (CGN,...

01.12.2023

Energy shock easing, according to RWI / ISL

The RWI / ISL Container Throughput Index, a measure of global trade activity, decreased slightly in October to a seasonally-adjusted 125 points. This slight decline follows a period of recovery from the impacts of energy price...

01.12.2023

A new fulfilment hub in Hesse

From March Hermes Fulfilment will take over storage and dispatch of goods for the Otto Group from a new location in Hesse (Germany). Hermes Fulfilment launched its ‘F2X’ IT and logistics platform in spring 2023. The software...

01.12.2023

Niels Kröning takes the lead

Swissport Losch Munich will be managed by Niels Kröning from 1 January 2024. The 45-year-old lawyer has several years of management experience in aviation companies. Throughout his career he's acquired expertise in fields such as...

01.12.2023

Chinese cars travel multimodally to the Urals

The specialists from RZD Logistics (RZDL) handled a recent car transport on a special route by ship, rail and truck. A batch of 28 wagons was loaded into 40 ft containers and shipped by sea from Shanghai (China) to Vladivostok...

01.12.2023

Carriers face post-boom dip

In Q3/2023, major shipping lines experienced significant year-on-year revenue declines, with the least contraction being –51.8%. This downturn aligns with pre-pandemic levels when viewed against 2019 figures, however,...

01.12.2023

When medicine becomes dangerous

On 20 November the USA's Customs and Border Protection agency (CBP) inspected a shipment that had arrived from Hong Kong and was manifested as vaginal tightening gel. The shipment was found to contain commercial quantities of a...

01.12.2023

Peaking for a weather research station

One of the most modern weather stations in the world is being built atop the Zugspitze, 2962 m above sea level and Germany's highest mountain. A spectrometer and other sensitive equipment weighing 1.4 t were recently brought to...

01.12.2023

From Adidas to Tompkins Solutions

Tompkins Solutions, a supply chain consulting and material handling integration firm, has announced that Carmen Zinner has joined the company as an account executive. In this role Zinner will be in charge of...

01.12.2023

Professional qualities and personal characteristics

Pesbe in Germany supports hauliers and forwarders to recruit lorry drivers. The biggest problem in the logistics industry at the moment is how to find experienced and reliable drivers. The recruitment agency Pesbe has...

01.12.2023

Konecranes tech elevates Steveco

Steveco Oy, a Finnish stevedoring company, has initiated operations with the new sixth generation Konecranes Gottwald ESP.8 mobile harbour crane at its ro-ro terminal in HaminaKotka, southern Finland. This upgrade is part of...

01.12.2023

"Curiosity of the Day"

The refill of one ballpoint pen can draw a line up to 10 km long.

01.12.2023

New Oceania representative for DHL Aviation

From today, 1 December 2023, all DHL Aviation air cargo sales activities in Australia and New Zealand will be managed by the Wexco Group and by Wexco NZ, two long-established subsidiaries of the ECS Group. The four-year GSSA...

30.11.2023

How many keels laid down – and by whom?

An overview of new ships on order in South Korea. The euphoric years of 2021 and 2022 are over for shipowners, but their effects in the form of newbuildings are now only gradually reaching the market. An analysis of the order...

30.11.2023

Ro-la to remain in operation for the time being

The Swiss government has prepared a whole new bundle of measures strengthen railfreight transport through the Alps. For example, the performance-related heavy vehicle charge (HVC) is to be adjusted to inflation on 1 January 2025...

30.11.2023

Jens Schmeidler elected COO of HGK Logistics

HGK Logistics and Intermodal has announced the following changes in its management team: Jens Schmeidler will take over the role of chief operating officer (COO) from 1 February 2024, succeeding Andreas Grzib. The former chief...

30.11.2023

Melbourne Port's new face

Victoria International Container Terminal (Vict) in Melbourne is finalising its Phase 3A expansion, set for completion in December. This phase, part of an AUD 235 million (USD 156 million) project, enhances VICT's capacity by...

30.11.2023

Air freight not yet recovered, but buoyant

While the passenger business at Basel-Mulhouse Airport, which will celebrate its 75th anniversary next year, is recovering noticeably, freight volumes are likely to fall for the second year in a row, dropping to around 111,000 t...