06.05.2021

Smart mobility to improve traffic efficiency

Together with the Hong Kong applied science and technology research institute and telecommunications provider HKT, Scania has joined a trial to use 5G vehicle communications system on a 14 km public road in the city. It is one of...
06.05.2021

A ship management takeover

Columbia Shipmanagement (CSM) and Seatrans have set up a joint venture, called Stödig Ship Management. CSM said that the strategic partnership with the Norwegian shipowner and operator, which specialises in services for chemical...
06.05.2021

Togo's new road transport association

The International Road Union (IRU) continues its efforts to formalise and professionalise Togo's road transport industry. With the backing of the World Bank, it has been supporting an in-depth reform of road transport in Togo,...
06.05.2021

Takeover in Switzerland

Germany-based Noerpel Group is acquiring the Swiss company Logistik 2000. With the new location in Diepoldsau directly on the Austrian border, the buyer is thus gaining its second branch in Switzerland. Founded in 1999,...
06.05.2021

UPS relocates

UPS opened new parcel and distribution centre in Bülach near Zurich at the end of March this year. It replaces the company's previous centre in Rümlang, which had been operating for 25 years. The new hub is located not far from...
06.05.2021

"Curiosity of the Day"

Platypuses are born with teeth and lose them when they grow up.

06.05.2021

Galoni becomes Thordon Bearings' CEO

Anna Galoni has been named as the new CEO of bearing and seal specialist Thordon Bearings, a Canadian Thomson-Gordon Group company. She succeeds Terry McGowan, who has retired after almost 14 years in the CEO role. Galoni...
06.05.2021

Port of Douala gearing up for growth

Cameroon’s Régie du Terminal à Conteneurs (RTC) has ordered two Konecranes Gottwald harbour cranes. RTC expects the volume of cargo passing through the port of Douala to continue to rise, which is why it needs extra capacity in...
06.05.2021

Eight pallets of relief supplies to Aral Sea

Uzbekistan Airways and Boeing recently delivered eight pallets of humanitarian relief supplies donated by Project CURE to the Aral Sea region of the Central Asian country on board the airline’s newest B787-8 Dreamliner. The...
05.05.2021

Optimisation à la française

The French market isn’t virgin terrain for 4flow, an international software firm and consultancy that also offers 4PL services. In an interview conducted digitally Julian Schulcz and Antoine Clogne told Christian Doepgen about...
05.05.2021

Barking to receive new customs facility

DB Cargo UK has successfully bid for funding to create a new ‘customs approval area’ at its intermodal terminal at Barking in London. Work will begin shortly to build a new inland border control facility at the site to speed up...
05.05.2021

Less cargo theft in Mexico

Intelligence company Sensitech recently published its annual cargo theft report for Mexico in 2020. In total, cargo theft in 2020 decreased by 9% in comparison to 2019, but its risk level remains severe. On a regional basis, the...
05.05.2021

Air cargo demand: all time high in March

Yesterday, 4 May 2021, on the first day of this year's (virtual) Air Cargo Europe conference, Iata released March 2021 data for global air cargo markets showing that air cargo demand continued to outperform pre-Covid levels...
05.05.2021

Gefco 's air & sea wins in 2020

It is the pandemic paradox again. In 2020, Gefco experienced a 19.7% fall in revenues due to disruptions in customers’ businesses around the world, but maintained a 3.7% ebit margin, (4.3% in 2019). In total, Gefco's revenues in...
05.05.2021

One-stop-shop directly on site

VTG is restructuring its position in the Turkish market and bringing all business activities of VTG Rail Europe, VTG Rail Logistics and VTG Tanktainer under one roof at the group's subsidiary VTG Nakliyat. Sinemis Özden,...
05.05.2021

Thurner joins board

Tegernsee (Germany)-headquartered Loxxess , a specialist for industrial and trade logistics, has appointed Christina Thurner as equal member of the board, joining her brother Claus-Peter Amberger. Thurner will retain her...
05.05.2021

Fuelled by growing air cargo volumes

Samskip has established a dedicated air freight business, adding significant new options to a service portfolio that already includes rail, road, shortsea and inland waterway links in Europe and global cargo logistics solutions....
05.05.2021

ONE takes great leap in 2020

In 2020, Singapore-headquartered Ocean Network Express (ONE) generated a turnover of USD 14.4 billion, which is a significant 21.3% above the level of FY/2019 (USD 11,9 billion). Profit saw a peak with USD 3.5 billion, a...
05.05.2021

Faradair appoints Tinseth and Anderson

Faradair has hired Randy Tinseth and Tony Anderson “to help steer the company through its next phase of growth.” Headquartered at the Imperial War Museum Duxford’s historic Cambridgeshire airfield, Faradair continues to develop...
05.05.2021

Caring for DHL Express' A330 engines

Rolls-Royce and DHL Express have signed a "total care" agreement for the Trent 700 engines that currently power the eight A330 freighter aircraft of the global logistics company. The agreement will also cover any Trent...
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