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07.02.2022

New PCS in Indonesia

Indian provider Kale Logistics Solutions has rolled out Indonesia's port community system (PCS) in the Port of Rembang. The port, located in the country’s central Java province, uses the system to fast track, streamline and...

07.02.2022

Swedish double strike in the south

Founded in Gothenburg in 2003, Swedish freight forwarder NTEX recently acquired the transport and forwarding company Scanroad in Belgium and shares in the Italian freight company ITX Cargo. It is a further step on a path already...

07.02.2022

Second career for former Scandlines CEO

Søren Poulsgaard Jensen joins the advisory board of Ehrenberg Sørensen Kommunikation, an international communications agency. Due to his many years of experience as CEO of Scandlines, Poulsgaard Jensen is one of the most...

07.02.2022

Complementing the ‘pipeline in the sky’

H2 Clipper has been awarded US Patent 11,236,864 on a new technology that solves the ‘last-mile’ problem of hydrogen distribution, while assuring hydrogen purity. The patent for a ‘pipe-within-a-pipe’ technology covers the...

07.02.2022

"Curiosity of the Day"

According to the National Association of Pizzeria Operators, the American pizza industry bakes the equivalent of 400,000 sqm of pizza per day - an area almost as large as the entire Vatican City.

07.02.2022

Sea Lead to call at Australian ports

Sea Lead Shipping will start operations within the CA2 service from March 2022. Founded in 2017 and headquartered in Singapore, the shipping company will deploy a vessel within the CA2 consortium also run by TS Lines. The CA2...

07.02.2022

Better rail access for Wilhelmshaven

Around EUR 13.6 billion is to be invested in Germany’s rail infrastructure in 2022. This is roughly EUR 900 million more than in 2021 and the highest sum ever made available in a single year. The money will be used for 175...

07.02.2022

GDP and WDA for NX Spain

Two certificates at the same time: Nippon Express de España has obtained the wholesale distributor authorisation (WDA) and good distribution practice (GDP) certification from the Catalan department of health. Effective 24...

07.02.2022

Growing in style

Miami International Airport (MIA) handled 2.7 m t of freight in 2021, shattering its previous record of 2.3 m t in 2020 by 17%, for its second consecutive year of growth. International freight grew by 17% to 2.2 m t, domestic...

04.02.2022

Investors gearing up

Logistics properties just as interesting as digital start-ups.

04.02.2022

Hupac increases train frequency

The Swiss Intermodal Operator is expanding its shuttle services between Germany and Italy: as of 7 February 2022, the company will be offering three round trips per week on its Duisburg – Proderonone line. With the extension,...

04.02.2022

80 biodiesel trucks join fleet in Bolzano

For Gruber Logistics in South Tyrol (Italy), sustainability and environmental conservation have been an integral part of its corporate philosophy for decades. The haulier invested in an additional new Scania R 450 4x2...

04.02.2022

Alexander Granderath to chair supervisory board

The supervisory board of VTG Aktiengesellschaft, a European wagon hire and rail logistics company, has elected Alexander Granderath as its new chairman. He succeeds Jost A. Massenberg, who served on VTG’s supervisory board for...

04.02.2022

Digital service provider starts CO2 cooperation

As from February 2022, the users of "startracking", an airport-to-airport tracking solution provided by the Italian company Cargo Start, can benefit from special conditions to access a Swiss solution for the certified...

04.02.2022

Freight rates: price hike expected to continue

The European road freight rate benchmark for Q4/2021 shows that prices ended 2021 at historic highs in Europe. The index stood at 108.3, 1.1 points higher than in Q3/2021 and 3.2 points higher than in Q4/2020. Q4/2021 is the 6th...

04.02.2022

Developing Angola's logistics sector

Port and terminal operator DP World and the government of Angola have inked a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to develop the country’s trade and logistics sector. The Dubai-headquartered DP World player started operations...

04.02.2022

ZIM reshuffles Latin American services

ZIM is rerouting three services in Latin America. In detail, the liner is introducing a new Venezuela feeder (VEX) and upgrading two existing lines, the Central America Express (LAF) and West Coast Central America (WCA) services....

04.02.2022

Royal Brunei Airlines extends GSA partnership

ECS Group has secured a two-year contract extension with Royal Brunei Airlines and will represent the airline’s cargo division at a variety of online and offline destinations across nine territories: S.E Asia, Australia, China,...

04.02.2022

Ermewa welcomes Vincent Metz

Ermewa has appointed Vincent Metz as its new chief technical officer (CTO), effective 1 February 2022. The Dutch national will lead the company's newly combined central technical team. Metz brings a broad range of experience...

04.02.2022

Gothenburg: rail traffic at all-time high

The upward trend in rail traffic at the Swedish Port of Gothenburg looks set to continue, with a new record for rail-borne freight passing through the port last year. Some 458,000 teu were handled in 2021. This throughput is...