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11.01.2023

Nicole – an uninvited guest

Optimism prevailed at Tiaca ACF 2022, despite dark clouds in the air cargo skies. Tiaca once again held its Air Cargo Forum recently – four years after the last edition of the world air cargo association’s ACF in Toronto (see...

09.01.2023

Banking on East Africa

New service linking India, UAE, Kenya, Tanzania. Three shipping lines have one eye clearly focused on expected growth of 8% for East African economies. They are set to cooperate on a joint service that will connect India and the...

07.01.2023

An Italian takes the helm

Zeno D’Agostino new president of the top European ports organisation in Brussels. Verona, Naples, Trieste – and now Brussels. Former Espo vice-president Zeno D’Agostino was unanimously elected president of the pan-European ports...

05.01.2023

Parcels and ULDs for its birthday

ITA Airways Cargo chooses its first digital distribution channel. Just over a year ago, on 15 October 2021, ITA Airways took over the mantle of Italian flag carrier from Alitalia. The pandemic of the time didn’t exactly make it...

01.01.2023

A difficult and protracted re-birth

Back on the open sea – a Fratelli Cosulich ship no longer blockaded in Ukrainian port of Mariupol. Nine months can be rather a long time in shipping. That was the time it took the shipping line Vulcania, a subsidiary of the...

01.01.2023

Observe the trend – then act

In conversation with Manuel Scortegagna of Scortrans. People are at the heart of the logistics provider Scortrans, established in Vicenza in 1989, as its managing director made clear in a conversation with ITJ editor Andreas Haug.

30.12.2022

Anniversary specials

Special containers from Innofreight set to roll in western Switzerland too. The year 2022 was marked by the 20th anniversary at the Austrian company Innofreight. Managing director Peter Wanek-Pusset provided the ITJ with a...

28.12.2022

Not many roads lead to Moscow

Transport services to countries subject to sanctions – the example of Russia. Finding routes that no one else has found is the pride of the forwarder. Managing director and owner Gabriela Schuster reported on the latest...

26.12.2022

A transporter of solutions

30 years of Sonatrans. Mohssine Bensouda is convinced that Sonatrans, the company he founded in Casablanca, has a special role to play. In these uncertain times he’s concerned in the short term with consolidating what has been...

23.12.2022

A big eye and boxes

The Rivergate system identifies containers on inland vessels. Digitalisation has reached new levels in inland shipping too. Duisport has teamed up with its technology partners to equip cranes with cameras that work together to...

21.12.2022

Master plan through to 2053

Turkey at the turning point of orientation towards the global economy and logistics? ‘Driving by sight’ is well-known as the policy of many Western states and companies. The confidence and optimism of many Turkish players sets...

19.12.2022

Forging heavylift transport solutions

Interested parties made bids for the new Goldhofer FT series at Bauma 2022. The manufacturers of transport solutions for heavy road haulage have to anticipate any demands the markets might come up with. Thus the Goldhofer group...

17.12.2022

An Atlantic alliance

A B747F and an AN-124-100M help an AOG to a high in the Azores. To prevent outage costs from going through the roof in the event of an ‘aircraft on ground’ (AOG), spare parts are generally urgently required. The recent deployment...

15.12.2022

Bringing it all together for a project

The market for crane selection and use remains complex – MyCrane will continue to simplify matters. All-rounders who know all about heavylift cranes have to know the industry, the customers and the technology well. Piet...

14.12.2022

Tarros’ Egyptian partner in fruitful exchanges

Tarros Med Egypt was interactive and busy with fruitful meetings during the seventh edition of the ‘Food Africa’ exhibition in Cairo last week. The official partner in Egypt of the Italian shipping line Tarros even had an...

14.12.2022

18 airports connected by domestic RFS

Singapore Airlines has extended its cargo partnership with Worldwide Flight Services (WFS) in the UK with a new contract for domestic road feeder services (RFS) connecting regional offline airports. WFS has provided cargo...

14.12.2022

New intermodal connection for Europe's largest inland port

Contargo is introducing a new Duisburg–Wilhelmshaven shuttle in Germany in January. The intermodal link will initially offer one round trip a week. An increase to two round trips a week is planned for the second quarter. The...

14.12.2022

To Aurora Borealis with Austrian Airlines

On 17 December, Austrian Airlines is starting a new direct service between Vienna and Tromsø, northern Norway. Avinor, the Oslo-based company that runs 44 state-owned airports, considers this to be “yet another strengthening of...

14.12.2022

IMRF selects Caroline Jupe

The International Maritime Rescue Federation (IMRF) has appointed Caroline Jupe as its new chief executive officer with effect from 1 February 2023. She’ll replace Theresa Crossley, who is retiring next year following a...

14.12.2022

FCS now powered by renewable energy

Frankfurt Cargo Services’ (FCS) operations in Germany are now 100% powered by renewable energy, in line with the ‘Our Sustainable Flight Path’ programme of its parent company Worldwide Flight Services (WFS). The switch to...