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15.02.2022

A new facility near Dresden

France-headquartered logistics group Geodis is planning a multi-user logistics facility in Coswig near Dresden, Germany. The new hub is scheduled to be ready for occupancy in October of this year. The building, developed by...

14.02.2022

Combined option via Bangkok

A road-air solution linking Vietnam and Europe.

14.02.2022

Next step for Eurasian land bridge

Container services on the China-Western Europe route are flourishing, and a new connection from Wuhan to Germany has come on stream. Commissioned by Bahnoperator and Trans Container, and in cooperation with Ust-Luga Container...

14.02.2022

Anchorage breaks record but seeks new director

Ted Stevens Anchorage International Airport (ANC) handled approximately 3.6 million t of air cargo in 2021, breaking its record for cargo volume by 14%, or just over 400,000 t. The previous record was set in 2020. Jim...

14.02.2022

Ceva adds more land-based services

Ceva has launched numerous cross-border services connecting European, Middle Eastern and Asian markets, including a block train linking Vietnam and Europe via China. The logistics provider also handles container consolidation and...

14.02.2022

A flood of faked driver's licences

US Customs and Border Protection Officers (CBPOs) working at the port of Memphis have been seizing counterfeit driver’s licences daily. While in the past faked driver's licenses were usually acquired for the illegal purchase...

14.02.2022

Buss Group appoints Eva Griewel as CFO

The Buss Group has appointed Eva Griewel as an additional managing director with effect from 1 January 2022. She succeeds Jan Brockmöller as the new chief financial officer (CFO). Griewel will lead the Buss Group together with...

14.02.2022

Big investment in railfreight in Poland

LTG Cargo in Poland is planning its largest investments in the country to date. The funds will be used to diversify the activities as envisaged in the company’s strategy: expansion to Western Europe, development of new and...

14.02.2022

New location on Mexican border

International transport and logistics service provider Gebrüder Weiss has opened a branch in the Texan border town of El Paso, which is to become a hub for full load transports between Mexico and USA. With this expansion, the...

14.02.2022

Swiss Port of Basel on its way back

2021 saw a comeback of cargo flows in the Port of Switzerland, the operator of the Swiss inland ports on the River Rhine in Basel. The port authority’s three hubs handled 5.41 million t of goods in 2021, 5.5% more than the...

14.02.2022

Fresh blood for Briese

BBC Chartering, an affiliate of the Briese Group from Leer (Germany), is enlarging its fleet. The new ‘BBC Ukraine’, an F-500 type multipurpose and heavylift vessel co-owned by Briese Schiffahrt and Swiss investors was...

14.02.2022

Kenya Airways cuts the net

After years of flying monkeys to USA for animal testing, Kenya Airways has decided to end the lucrative business at the end of February, following an appeal by animal rights group Peta. The decision was triggered by a truck...

14.02.2022

Fedro promotes Valentina Kumpusch

Valentina Kumpusch will become the deputy director of Switzerland’s Federal Roads Office (Fedro) and head of the road infrastructure west division at the beginning of August 2022. In this position, she will be in charge of...

14.02.2022

60 trains full of letters and parcels every day

SBB Cargo and Swiss Post are extending their long-standing partnership by a further four years from 2023 to 2026. A framework agreement to this effect was signed recently. By the end of 2026, SBB Cargo will be transporting 60...

14.02.2022

Koerber takes over from Siemens

The international technology group Koerber has inked an agreement to acquire Siemens Logistics’ global mail and parcel business. With around 1,200 employees, this Siemens segment generates an annual revenue of about EUR 500...

14.02.2022

“Curiosity of the Day”

Five years ago today, on Valentine’s Day 2017, Burger King restaurants in Israel sold bags with ‘adult meals’. Besides two beers, two burgers and two portions of fries, they also contained sex toys.

14.02.2022

US cargo airlines continue to hire workers

The number of employees in the USA’s airline industry (passenger and cargo airlines combined) rose to 728,150 in December 2021, 20,049 (2.83%) more than in November 2021 and 21,340 (2.85%) fewer than in December 2019. This figure...

14.02.2022

JAS picks Giancarlo Rosselli

As it continues to expand in the pharma & healthcare sector, JAS has appointed Giancarlo Rosselli to lead the company’s sales efforts in the Americas for this vertical. Rosselli will be based out of the JAS Americas HQ in...

14.02.2022

First transport under unified CIM/SMGS rules

Note Trans Container has launched its first international multimodal service shipping cargo from China to Germany under a unified CIM/SMGS consignment note. The test shipment was performed recently. As part of the second...

14.02.2022

Maritime trade back to pre-pandemic levels

In 2021, international maritime trade recovered to pre-pandemic levels and reached 12 billion t transported, corresponding to approximately 1,5 t per inhabitant of the earth. According to the latest weekly report by analyst...