11.01.2022

Latest trucks distribute food across UK

Ten new Volvo FM 6x2 tractor units have been delivered into A.F. Blakemore & Son’s food distribution fleet, each meeting Transport for London’s three-star direct vision standard (DVS) rating. The 44 t FMs will work...
11.01.2022

Liscont taken over by Yilport

Terminal operator Eurogate has sold its shares in the Portuguese container terminal in Lisbon. The 16.34% will go to global port and terminal operator Yilport, which is domiciled in Turkey and now holds all shares in Liscont. The...
10.01.2022

No short-term injection of long-haul cargo services

Cathay Pacific Cargo will continue to implement very substantial reductions to its long-haul capacity in the first quarter of 2022, on account of the latest aircrew quarantine measures imposed by the government of the Hong Kong...
10.01.2022

Metrans expanding in the East

The German intermodal company Metrans, a subsidiary of HHLA, has taken over the firm CL Europort, and the logistics centre of the same name, in the Polish town of Małaszewicze. The centre is near the Belarusian border and is a...
10.01.2022

Bolloré receives billion-euro offer from MSC

In December the Bolloré Group received an offer from the Geneva-based MSC Group to acquire its entire African logistics operations. The offer was submitted on the basis of a valuation (net of minority interests) of EUR 5.7...
10.01.2022

Strong start to 2022 – but clouds on the horizon

The container throughput index published by the RWI Leibniz Institute for Economic Research and the Institute of Shipping Economics and Logistics (ISL) rose from 123.9 points (seasonally adjusted) to 125.3 points in November,...
10.01.2022

80 years ago – first commercial flight around the world

80 years ago, a Boeing 314 Clipper completed the first commercial flight around the world. When the flying boat set off from San Francisco CA (USA) on 2 December 1941 for a scheduled flight to Auckland (New Zealand), there was no...
10.01.2022

Horse-drawn carriages to cargo drones

DB Schenker is celebrating its 150th anniversary in 2022. On 1 July 1872 Gottfried Schenker founded DB Schenker in Vienna in Austria. His approach – combine individual shipments in collective consignments – was an absolute...
10.01.2022

Deputy directors for Swiss civil aviation and environment departments

Switzerland’s environment, transport, energy and communications ministry has appointed Martin Schmid Ding as the deputy director of its federal office of civil aviation (Foca), and Paul Steffen as the deputy director of its...
10.01.2022

LF Logistics sold for USD 3.2 billion

Just before Christmas Copenhagen-based A.P. Moller-Maersk announced the acquisition of LF Logistics, a Hong Kong-based contract logistics company that specialises in omni-channel fulfilment services in the Asia-Pacific region....
10.01.2022

Barge service for Latin American exports

A new barge feeder service between the port of La Plata, close to Buenos Aires, and the port of Santa Fe, in the northeast of the country introduced by ICTSI’s Argentinian business unit creates a new and direct link to Brazil and...
10.01.2022

First Saab 2000 cargo conversion under way

Täby Air Maintenance (TAM) is finalising a project to convert the high-speed turboprop Saab 2000 regional airliner into a cargo configuration. The conversion project is being spearheaded in close collaboration with launch...
10.01.2022

Three New Silk Route players join forces

Russian Railways Logistics (RZDL), Rail Cargo Hungaria and CER Cargo Holding have signed a letter of intent to establish a joint venture to strengthen transport routes between China and Europe by providing quality logistics...
10.01.2022

Changes on the Royal Vopak board

The supervisory board of Royal Vopak has nominated Michiel Gilsing to succeed Gerard Paulides as CFO and as a member of the executive board. Frits Eulderink, in turn, has been nominated for another term as COO and as a member of...
10.01.2022

Swiss Post keeps on expanding

The next coups have been completed. On 1 January Swiss Post acquired the company Stella Brandenberger Transport, based in Pratteln near Basel (Switzerland). The family business employs almost 80 people and specialises in domestic...
10.01.2022

Best’s next step in Barcelona

The port of Barcelona has approved the development of a new phase of the Best terminal, which belongs to Hutchison Ports. The port and terminal operator is set to invest around EUR 60 million in its facility on the Prat...
10.01.2022

Iata live-animal certification for Qatar Airways Cargo

Qatar Airways Cargo was recently certified according to ‘Iata CEIV Live Animal’ standards, following six months of process and product audits. Miguel Rodriguez Moreno, Qatar’s senior cargo manager for climate-control products,...
10.01.2022

“Curiosity of the Day”

The literal meaning of ‘omicron’ and ‘omega’, the 15th and 24th letters of the Greek alphabet, is ‘little O’ (o mikron) and ‘great O’ (ō mega).
10.01.2022

Five roundtrips a week between Venlo and Melzo

TX Logistik has started an intermodal connection between Venlo (Netherlands) and Melzo (Italy). The connection is operated as a company train for the Dutch logistic company Jan de Rijk Logistics. The operation offers five round...
10.01.2022

Volga-Dnepr specialists honoured

The XI International Forum held in St Petersburg (Russia) recently, entitled “Arctic: today and the future”, saw four Volga-Dnepr employees recognised for their contribution to developing the Arctic and Antarctic regions. Igor...
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