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17.04.2023

Claus Wagner re-elected chairman of Vacad

Germany’s association of air cargo handlers Vacad has confirmed its current three-member board following board elections. The managing director of Frankfurt Cargo Services FCS, in office since April 2021, will continue to jointly...

17.04.2023

Weekly flights from Bogota to Dallas Fort Worth

Qatar Airways Cargo has introduced direct freighter service from Bogotá, capital of Colombia to Dallas Fort Worth in Texas. The once weekly Boeing 777 freighter departs from Bogota on Mondays and flies to Dallas Fort Worth...

17.04.2023

"Curiosity of the Day"

On Earth, one child is born every 4.3 seconds.

17.04.2023

Uniexpress selects pioneer software

UK-based international freight forwarding company Uniexpress has become the largest customer of the innovative technology platform Forward Solutions. The Forward Vision software allows freight management companies to closely...

17.04.2023

Two new vehicles to gear up for festival season

Krone Trailers UK has helped Southern Van Lines to gear up for a busy year as the sector continues to bounce back after covid. The theatre and music tour specialist provides transport and logistics for some of the biggest names...

14.04.2023

Switzerland to support CT terminal in Italy

Switzerland aims to further strengthen the railways as an alternative for transporting goods through the Alps. The Federal Office of Transport (FOT) is therefore participating in the construction of a large transhipment terminal...

14.04.2023

Closer to big cargo charter markets

Air Charter Service (ACS) has opened a new office in the centre of Mexico City, the aircraft charter specialist's 12th operation in the Americas and 30th in total. Richard Thompson (left), president ACS Americas: "This...

14.04.2023

Heiko Krebs joins Kombiverkehr

Kombiverkehr’s administrative board has named Heiko Krebs, an authorised officer of the company’s operations department, as a second managing director. He assumed his new role on 13 April 2023. This appointment also entails a...

14.04.2023

Cambodia orders its first mobile harbour crane

Sihanoukville Autonomous Port (PAS), the operator of Cambodia's sole deep-water port, which is owned and run by the government, has ordered two Generation 6 Konecranes Gottwald mobile harbour cranes. Cambodia’s first-ever mobile...

14.04.2023

Drone deliveries for Royal Mail

In Q2/2023, Skyports Drone Services will launch the Orkney I-Port operation, a fully electric drone logistics project created in partnership with Royal Mail, Orkney Islands Council Harbour Authority and Loganair. The project...

14.04.2023

RCG: new train to link Budapest with Rijeka

Quick connections to the northern Adriatic: ÖBB Rail Cargo Group (RCG) is expanding its Transnet with a new transport solution between Hungary and the northern Adriatic. The port of Rijeka (Croatia) is an important transhipment...

14.04.2023

CBP records 400% increase in marijuana seizures

US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officers in Indianapolis seized 525 parcels containing marijuana between 1 October 2022 and 31 March 2023. This time last year during the same timeframe officers only saw 105 packages...

14.04.2023

More than 6 million teu in Mumbai

Jawaharlal Nehru Port Authority (JNPA) registered its highest ever throughput of 6.05 million teu in 2022-23. India’s largest container port located in Mumbai had crossed 6 million teu on 30 March 2023. During the corresponding...

14.04.2023

ID Logistics picks Martin Whitcombe

Contract logistics provider ID Logistics has appointed Martin Whitcombe as global director of e-commerce, FMCG and fashion market development. With over thirty years of professional experience, Whitcombe will bring his...

14.04.2023

Swiss hyperloop team wins innovation prize

At the 2023 "Not-A-Boring Competition" in Bastrop, Texas, at the beginning of April, the "Swissloop Tunnelling" team from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) in Zurich was awarded the top prize for...

14.04.2023

Enhancing inland coverage of Nigeria

In addition to the current intermodal network serving its locations in Nigeria, CMA CGM is now introducing a new land transport project through the Nigerian port of Lekki. Scheduled to open at Lekki in May 2023, this new...

14.04.2023

Aercap to lease BCFs to PT Rusky Aero Indonesia

Aercap Holdings has signed lease agreements for two 737-800BCF (Boeing converted freighters) with newly launched cargo airline PT Rusky Aero Indonesia, operating as Raindo United Services. Attending the announcement ceremony...

14.04.2023

EV Cargo hires Jason Lin

Global freight forwarding, supply chain and technology company EV Cargo has appointed Jason Lin as vice president – commercial, Greater China. Lin started his career with Maersk Line in Hong Kong and in Canada, where he...

14.04.2023

"Curiosity of the Day"

According to his private secretary, the Italian writer Gabriele D'Annunzio (1863-1936) owned at least 70 coats.

14.04.2023

Free logistics space near Wilhelmshaven

The Jade Weser Port Freight Village (GVZ) in direct vicinity to the Eurogate Container Terminal in Wilhelmshaven in northern Germany, offers 1,500,000 sqm of high-quality business locations for logistics properties. The plots...