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10.02.2023

Cargo-Partner values sustainability

Cargo-Partner is reducing paper consumption in its global network. It has already digitised and by revamped a range of business processes. In air freight, Cargo-Partner began the ongoing transition to e-AWBs in 2015 and increased...

10.02.2023

Everts Air Cargo contracts AEI

Aeronautical Engineers, Inc. (AEI) has signed a contract to provide Fairbanks (Alaska)-based Everts Air Cargo with an MD88SF freighter conversion. The aircraft will commence modification in March 2023. Modification touch labour...

10.02.2023

A good start but a long way to go

Swiss transport associations have generally welcomed the plans for the further development of inland freight transport that the Swiss Federal Council has now submitted for consultation. However, they add that the proposal is just...

10.02.2023

Swire launches PWX

A new service has been introduced in the Asia-Pacific trade lanes. Swire Shipping, the former China Navigation Company, has launched the Pacific Weekly Express (PWX) service. It calls ports on a seven-day frequency in Papua New...

10.02.2023

Tianjin maintains speed

The Port of Tianjin has drawn a positive balance for 2022. The Chinese port, which also services Beijing, passed the threshold of 21 million teu last year, an upswing of 6.9% compared to the median of the last five years and 3.9%...

10.02.2023

Another investment for Air Canada Cargo

Last week, Air Canada Cargo unveiled a renewed customer reception area at its London Heathrow facility, marking one of the latest investments in improving its services to customers around the globe. The reception area is the...

10.02.2023

"Curiosity of the Day"

The last mammoths lived on Wrangel Island in the Arctic Ocean and became extinct around 1700 BC. In Egypt, the pyramids of Giza were being built at this time.

10.02.2023

Procureship appoints Carsten Schmidt

Procureship, a provider of a global e-procurement platform for marine buyers and suppliers, has appointed Carsten Schmidt as vice-president of sales to lead the company’s ambitious expansion in Northern Europe, the Americas and...

10.02.2023

Spot rates fall first time since Q1/2020

The road freight rates Benchmark index for Europe shows that spot rates fell by 2.4 index points in Q4/2022 vs Q3. This represents the first fall in the spot index since Q1/2020, but spot rates still remain up 18.1 points on...

10.02.2023

More e-vehicles in Swiss transport

E-mobility is the order of the day. In the fleet of DPD Switzerland, headquartered in Buchs near Zurich, 130 of 750 vans are currently fully electric. The courier service recently put ten more Renault Trucks E-Tech Masters into...

10.02.2023

Rockford: a boost for air cargo business

Chicago Rockford airport (RFD), one of the fastest growing cargo airports in USA, has announced that Menzies Aviation will expand its cargo operations to RFD. The company, which provides aviation services at airports in 58...

09.02.2023

Living multimodality

Direction of P&O Ferrymasters under fresh leadership. Timm Niebergall, relatively new in his job as CEO in Rotterdam, considers P&O Ferrymasters’ pan-European approach to be a key promise for the future. He’s convinced that...

09.02.2023

TX Logistik expands intermodal services

As of 22 February 2023, TX Logistik, an affiliate of FS Italiane (Italy’s state railways), will raise the number of weekly round trips on the route between Rostock (Germany) and Verona (Italy) from four to six. TX Logistik had...

09.02.2023

Only two weeks left to express interest

Uzsama, Uzbekistan's State Assets Management Agency, and Uzbekistan Airways have appointed the British aviation services group ACC Aviation on an exclusive basis for the remarketing and disposal of various aircraft. Founded...

09.02.2023

Brussels Airport: cargo team still growing

Geert Aerts (left), director cargo & logistics was promoted to chief cargo & real estate officer, effective 1 October 2022. The company also appointed Dimitri Bettoni (middle) as head of cargo, product & network...

09.02.2023

DP World wins bid in India

DP World has won a major concession at Deendayal port in Gujarat, on the western coast of India. The key purpose of the project is the construction, development, and operation of a container terminal at Tuna-Tekra within the...

09.02.2023

New hub in Saxony-Anhalt

DHL 2-Mann-Handling has opened a new logistics site in Landsberg (Saxony-Anhalt, Germany) to create additional capacities for large and bulky goods such as furniture from major business customers based in the region and in...

09.02.2023

Conforama on the move in Poland

French home furnishings retailer Conforama has found a new 51,000 sqm location for the distribution of its products from Eastern Europe. The shipper has partnered with Geodis for both consolidation and distribution services...

09.02.2023

Senior appointments at Dronamics

Dronamics, a cargo drone airline founded in 2014, has announced two senior appointments as the company prepares for the commercialisation of its same day delivery services later this year, following the completion of its test...

09.02.2023

Darpa: two teams for Liberty Lifter programme

Two teams - General Atomics working with Maritime Applied Physics Corporation and Aurora Flight Sciences working with Gibbs & Cox and Recon Craft - will develop designs for Darpa’s Liberty Lifter seaplane wing-in-ground...