Andreas Hämmerle has been promoted to chief financial officer of Kapsch TrafficCom (KTC), with effect from 1 July. He’s currently executive vice-president for finance at the logistics solutions provider for sustainable mobility,...
Summer might officially have arrived recently, when the season's first wild Alaska Copper river salmon came in to Seattle WA from Cordova AK. For the second year in a row, however, Alaska Air Cargo staff handled the iconic fish...
The German logistics services provider B+S GmbH Logistik und Dienstleistungen has moved into a 20,500 sqm logistics facility in greater Bremen. The logistician already took over a centre in the Bremen freight village developed by...
Agracel, which provides industrial development services to rural communities, has launched a new affiliate in the USA, Agracel Rail Holdings, to develop short-line and regional railroad services in North America. Agracel...
Frog jumping competitions take place at various places in the USA.
The port of Hamburg witnessed an upswing in seaborne cargo throughput in Q1/2021, above its forecast. A steep increase in March, especially, led to higher volumes in total (+0.4% to 32,1 million t) compared to the same period...
Christa Stienen has been appointed chief human resource officer at Hellmann Worldwide Logistics with effect from 1 August. She will succeed Claudio Gerring, who died in December 2020 after nineteen years in the HR unit. Stienen...
These days, many a port is busy making plans for 2025 or 2050. Merce Conesà, president of the port of Barcelona, gave Christian Doepgen her take thereon.
The shipyards are busy again. According to Clarksons, the order book for container ships is also on the rise. Since 2010, when 30% of the global order book were container vessels, their share of the operating fleet worldwide saw...
The Slovenian Port of Koper has opened a petrol station for the supply of working machines and vehicles in the port, a new gate for trucks, and a new multi-storey garage for cars. The new gate for trucks is already the third...
The first unit in a new generation of HMM ships has docked at DP World’s container terminal at Southampton. The HMM “Nuri” is the first of eight 16,000 teu class mega-ships to sail the Asia and North Europe trade lanes. This...
Utilising Saudia Airlines B777-300 passenger planes with 140 t payload capacity per flight, Saudia Cargo kicked off its "preighter" flights to Copenhagen. Chief cargo officer Teddy Zebitz, who is from Denmark:...
Canadian National Railway (CN) and Kansas City Southern (KSU) have entered into a definitive USD 33.6 billion merger agreement to create the premier railway. The agreement was unanimously approved by both companies’ boards of...
Antoine Pretin joins global supply chain operator Geodis as its new vice president engineering group, where one of this responsibilities will be to accelerate the automation of Geodis’ services. Pretin started his career in...
A new partnership in the Americas: Heinemann Americas (HAI), the Florida-based affiliate of the international duty-free company Gebrüder Heinemann, and Bolloré Logistics have extended their ongoing cooperation to the new world....
Russian Railways Logistics (RZDL) recently transported new vehicles of Russian manufacturer GAZ from Russia to Central Asia by rail. The nine buses and five cars were conveyed on universal platforms over more than 4,700 km...
GATX Rail Europe, headquartered in Vienna, Austria, the European branch of an USA-based leasing company for rail vehicles, has appointed Jörg Nowaczyk as new CCO, effective 1 July 2021. He will report directly to current CEO...
Funds managed by affiliates of Apollo Global Management and Merx Aviation, a global aircraft leasing, management and finance company, have completed a sale and leaseback transaction with Air France which comprises two B777F....
In Germany, promoting the shift of cargo from road haulage to other modes of transport, including inland waterways, continues to be an important political issue. In central Germany, favourable water levels recently ensured a...
The Hamburg-based Hoyer Group, which operates worldwide for the chemical, petroleum, gas and foodstuffs industries, has reported stable figures for 2020. Turnover declined by 1% to EUR 1.12 billion (2019: EUR 1.18 billion)....
