03.06.2021

High freight rates inflate prices

Copenhagen-based maritime consultancy Sea-Intelligence recently analysed the impact of the elevated freight rates on importers for a variety of consumer goods, especially on the Asia to US West Coast and North Europe trade lanes....
03.06.2021

New director for pharma competence centre

Global logistics provider Agility has appointed Theresa Deeken as director of its pharma competence centre (PCC) in Switzerland. She brings more than twelve years’ experience in the logistics and freight forwarding industry with...
03.06.2021

More logistics at Llubljana's airport

Cargo-partner is expanding its warehouse capacities in Brnik near Slovenia's Ljubljana Airport. Now that the warehouse opened in 2019 has reached its full capacity, this expansion, which was originally planned between 2024 and...
03.06.2021

Fourth CLG aircraft at Leipzig airport

Cargologic Germany (CLG), a German cargo airline based at Leipzig/Halle Airport (LEJ), received its fourth aircraft last week. The B737-400F, which was transferred from Canada, has been checked by the German federal aviation...
03.06.2021

Dutch hauliers purchase fuel cell trucks

CV supplier Hyzon Motors has entered into definitive purchase agreements with Duurzaam Transport (subsidiary of Jan Bakker), and H2 Transport (a subsidiary of Millenaar & van Schaik) to supply a total of up to 20 hydrogen...
03.06.2021

Kolter takes leadership in Emden

Christoph Kolter officially took over the helm at Emden’s port office, Germany on 1 June 2021. He succeeds Frank Herbig, who retires after having served the ports in Lower Saxony for 29 years. Until autumn 2020, Kolter was deputy...
03.06.2021

Cargo Sous Terrain rolls on

The Council of States, the second chamber of the Swiss Parliament, has unanimously approved the federal underground freight transport act, which gives the Cargo sous terrain (CST) underground transport system the legal basis to...
03.06.2021

"Curiosity of the Day"

In the lottery, 1, 9 and 19 are the most frequently chosen numbers, because many people pick their year of birth.
03.06.2021

Symphony Group with a new site

A new 101,500 sqm production warehouse is to be developed by GMI Construction in UK. The building is for the Symphony Group, a British manufacturer of fitted kitchens and bedroom and bathroom furniture. The facility is coming up...
03.06.2021

Italian islands get closer to mainland

Naples-based Grimaldi Group has launched a new Naples-Cagliari-Palermo ro-pax after winning the relative tender of the Italian ministry of sustainable infrastructures and mobility for long-distance land-based services of...
03.06.2021

Aapa strengthens government relations

The American Association of Port Authorities (Aapa) has announced the promotion of Aapa government relations staffer, Derek Miller (photo), who already joined in September 2020, to the position of government relations manager,...
03.06.2021

MSC block trains: full speed ahead

MSC reports that its recently-launched Asia-to-Europe ocean and rail solution has been well received by its customers (see ITJ Daily from 24 April 2021). Introduced in mid-May, the first shipment of MSC containers was moved via ...
02.06.2021

Creating local services

Many a medium-sized forwarder suffered a substantial decline in 2020. Dachser ­Switzerland, however, managed to keep its sales figure at last year’s level. It believes in ­opportunities in the Suisse Romande – also on account of...
02.06.2021

A new entity with big ambitions

Since yesterday, 1 June 2021, the ports of Le Havre, Rouen and Paris, which have already been united under the Haropa banner since 2012, have additionally formed the ‘major Seine axis river and sea port authority’. During a sunny...
02.06.2021

Ettamogah rail hub handles 1,800 m trains

A rail siding in the Ettamogah rail hub near Albury in NSW (Australia) has been upgraded for around AUD 12.2 million (EUR 7.7 million), providing significantly increased efficiency for freight and passenger rail services. The new...
02.06.2021

Asia-Pacific airlines stagnated in April

Preliminary figures released by the Association of Asia Pacific Airlines (AAPA) have shown that passenger demand remains depressed, whilst cargo demand grew. Renewed border restrictions and lockdowns in many Asian economies...
02.06.2021

A silver lining for reliability at sea?

According to Sea-Intelligence, a maritime intelligence provider from Copenhagen (Denmark), the increase in global schedule reliability in March 2021 didn’t last. Reliability levelled out, with carriers recording a 1 percentage...
02.06.2021

New terminal promotes shift

A new container terminal is coming up in the inland port of Osnabrück (Germany) and going online in October. The operating company Container Terminal Osnabrück (CTO) will see the operational involvement of the logisticians and...
02.06.2021

Online Systemlogistik promotes managers

Online Systemlogistik (OSL), a German cargo group, redistributed its managerial tasks in Paderborn (Germany) on 1 June. Verena Käuper and Mike Wüllner, assistants to the management team, were both given full power of attorney....
02.06.2021

Gebrüder Weiss enhances Bulgarian position

Rhenus has decided to quit the road haulage business in Bulgaria and hand its activities over to the Gebrüder Weiss logistics group (GW), which has been active in Bulgaria since 1993. The acquisition includes facilities in Sofia,...
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