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01.07.2021

Panattoni builds for Amazon

Project developer Panattoni is developing a logistics real estate for Amazon in Salzgitter, Germany. At the distribution centre, incoming parcels from the retailer’s European logistics network will be sorted and picked up by...

01.07.2021

UK network expands fleet

Pall-Ex in UK is adding more urban delivery vehicles to its fleet to increase its share in the market. In total, the company has taken delivery of eight new vehicles in the last months as part of the first wave of a new...

01.07.2021

"Curiosity of the Day"

There are still 13 almost complete skeletons left of the dodo bird, which became extinct at the end of the 17th century. Twelve of them are in museums.

01.07.2021

Cologne logistics group stable

The logistics group Häfen und Güterverkehr Köln (HGK) reports that its annual results for 2020 remained on the same level as in 2019 (EUR 10.3 million). Sales amounted to EUR 71.2 million, compared to EUR 75.4 million in the...

30.06.2021

Making an old line new

More than ten years ago Turkey, Iran and Pakistan initiated a joint project for a seamless container train linking the three countries. The undertaking was shelved in the interim. Now there’s life in the old lines yet, as the...

30.06.2021

20 candles for rolling highway

Rolling highway (rola) trains set off on the Freiburg (Germany) – Novara (Italy) route for the first time on 11 July 2001. As a pioneering user of the 4-m Simplon intermodal corridor, Swiss Rola operator RAlpin has since then...

30.06.2021

Qatar Airways Cargo: more Webcargo options

Starting today, 30 June 2021, Qatar Airways Cargo is introducing Webcargo by Freightos in Europe (excluding Armenia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Russia, Slovakia and Slovenia). Forwarders will be able to conduct eBookings with access...

30.06.2021

SAL changes CEO

Air cargo handler Saudi Logistics Services (SAL), which operates at all of Saudi Arabia’s airports, has appointed Eng. Hesham bin Abdulla Alhussayen as CEO, replacing Omar Hariri, who will move to Saudi Ports Authority as CEO,...

30.06.2021

Carbon neutral air cargo

It is an encounter of the third kind: IAG Cargo, the cargo division of International Airlines Group, and freight forwarder Kuehne + Nagel have completed a chain of 16 charter flights from Stuttgart to Atlanta - the first ones to...

30.06.2021

Ore export railway opened

The African SMB-Winning Consortium, Africa, which specialises in bauxite production, has inaugurated a new 125 km railway line in Guinea. Connecting important storage towns between Boké to Boffa with the river port of...

30.06.2021

New player in Ukrainian waters

Hamburg-based carrier Hapag-Lloyd is opening a new office in Ukraine. Bordering on the northern shores of the Black Sea and the Sea of Azov, the country is the second largest in Europe and lies between the European Union and...

30.06.2021

Kenya Airways returns to Milan

After an absence of over 30 years, Kenya Airways returns to Milan today, 30 June 2021. Until 30 September, the East African airline will offer two flights a week between its Nairobi hub and MXP. They will be operated with B787-8,...

30.06.2021

New tenant in the north

Germany-based online furniture retailer riess-ambiente.de is relocating its headquarters and warehousing. With the gradual move into the Logistik Park Hamburg Nord (Kaltenkirchen/Nützen), which is part of the Panattoni portfolio,...

30.06.2021

Marketing expert for southwest France

Synergy, the rail operator of the Hutchison Ports group Hutchison Logistics, recently appointed marketing expert Alberto Jiménez to its commercial department, in keeping with its commitment to promote integral logistics services...

30.06.2021

Jumbo swap bodies save time

Germany-based freight forwarder Würfel is investing in jumbo swap bodies that feature a transfer plate for loading cargo into other swap bodies. This means that both jumbo swap bodies of a vehicle can be loaded or unloaded at the...

30.06.2021

Jaxport hits the jackpot in May

In May, Jacksonville Port in Florida (USA), aka Jaxport, set a new record for monthly container volumes. Box movements increased by 37% over the same month in 2020, to more than 128,900 teu in May 2021. Previously the record,...

30.06.2021

Big Twin freighter gains further interest

Gecas will exercise three options to firm orders with Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) to convert an additional three of the lessor’s B777-300ER passenger planes to freighters. This brings Gecas' total commitment since the...

30.06.2021

"Curiosity of the Day"

Originally, Nutella was created as a substitute product, because cocoa was very expensive in Italy after the Second World War, while hazelnuts were comparatively cheap.

30.06.2021

Russian shunting locomotive delivered

The Lyudinovo Diesel Locomotive Plant (part of Sinara Group) recently produced and dispatched a TEM9 shunting diesel locomotive to the Priargunsky Industrial Mining and Chemical Association (part of the Russian Atomic Energy...

30.06.2021

Rotterdam Short Sea Terminals’ new CEO

Netherlands-based hub for short sea shipping Rotterdam Short Sea Terminals has appointed Arno Storm as its new CEO, effective 15 August 2021. Founded in 1997, strategically located, Rotterdam Short Sea Terminals operates in...