04.03.2021

Global shipping practice launched

The Amrop Partnership, a leadership advisory and executive search consultancy, has launched a global shipping practice. Headed by Christian Reich and Peter Poulsen from Amrop’s Copenhagen office and Thomas Hofer from Amrop...
04.03.2021

Still committed to protecting wildlife

On 2 March 2021, San Francisco airport (SFO) welcomed the return of Emirates with the arrival of its first nonstop flight from Dubai in eleven months. The Middle Eastern airline started SFO operations in 2008 and made it its...
04.03.2021

Partnership on Finnish railways

Operail Finland has started cooperating with Oiltanking, an operator of tank terminals for oils, gases and chemicals, to transport liquid fuels on the Vainikkala-Kotka route in Finland. Oiltanking Finland’s terminals are located...
04.03.2021

100 years ago: flying mammoth falls

Exactly 100 years ago, on 4 March 1921, a remarkable aircraft first rose 20 m above Lake Maggiore in Ticino, Switzerland, only to crash shortly thereafter. With his Ca.60 Transaero, whose prototype was irretrievably lost...
04.03.2021

Customs clearance with 3T Logistics

Transport management technology specialist 3T Logistics and Technology Group has launched a new customs clearance service for UK’s exporters and importers. The fourth-party logistics (4PL) provider aims at minimising border...
04.03.2021

Iata regional VP, Africa & Middle East

Kamil Al-Awadhi assumed his new position as Iata's vice president for the region Africa & Middle East (AME) on 1 March 2021. Succeeding Muhammed Albakri, who has been appointed senior vice president for customer,...
04.03.2021

UK selects first eight freeports

In his annual budget announcement, British chancellor of the exchequer Rishi Sunak said that eight freeports will be established in England, with Teesside and the Solent amongst the winners. The first wave of freeports includes...
04.03.2021

Bottleneck for heavy traffic eliminated

The new bridge across Akhtuba River in the Astrakhan region in Russia is now open for traffic. The new bridge is one of the key links to increase goods throughput to the ports of the Azov-Black Sea basin. The opening of the...
04.03.2021

Solar power for Night Star Express

Night Star Express, an association of six medium-sized logistics service providers founded in 1993, is reducing its carbon footprint by introducing solar energy on its building in 's-Heerenberg, the Netherlands. To this end, 676...
04.03.2021

TSA "qualifies" dual-view air cargo scanner

The HI-SCAN 145180-2is pro of Smiths Detection, an American specialist for threat detection and security screening technologies, has been added to the “qualified” section of the transportation security administration’s (TSA)...
04.03.2021

More than 100,000 teu at Liège

The Autonomous Port of Liège, Belgium, witnessed a new mark in 2020 for the volumes of river container traffic. With 115,921 teu and an increase of 20% (+19,701 teu), the container terminals of the Port of Liège thus recorded...
04.03.2021

4,000 violations discovered

In Germany, the Federal Office for Goods Transport (BAG) and the Federal Association of Road Haulage, Logistics and Disposal (BGL) joined forces to combat unfair practices in road haulage such as illegal cabotage. The...
04.03.2021

"Curiosity of the Day"

The Cavendish banana variety, which dominates 95% of world trade, is sterile and can only be propagated by cloning. 
04.03.2021

Chep appoints Vicente Vallina

Chep, a provider of supply chain solutions, has named Vicente Vallina as director of retail and asset management in Spain, effective 1 March 2021. He reports directly to Vicente Mollá, Chep Spain's CEO and will design and...
03.03.2021

The last mile is the key

It’s not just CEP providers that are happily surfing the e-commerce wave. Classic forwarders also bank on this growing market, seeking to score in ­selected growing fields – as is the case with XPO Logistics after a difficult...
03.03.2021

Drones assist in vaccine logistics

Zipline is cooperating with UPS and the UPS Foundation to assist the government of Ghana in the delivery of Covid-19 vaccines across the West African country. Supported by the coordination of UPS Healthcare with vaccine...
03.03.2021

Hungarian coaches for Egypt

DHL is supporting Dunakeszi Járműjavító Kft to transport the largest order of rolling stock in the country's history. 676 passenger coaches will be delivered from the production site in Dunakeszi, Hungary, to Egypt within a...
03.03.2021

Americold's expansion pays off

For 2020, Atlanta-headquartered Americold reported revenues of USD 1.99 billion, an uptick of 11.4% in comparison to 2019. The company invested both in the extension of its network and in acquisitions, pouring USD 2.6 billion...
03.03.2021

Latam Group reveals big cargo plan(e)s

Latam Airlines Group announced a significant expansion of its cargo operations with the conversion of up to eight Boeing 767-300ER aircraft into Boeing Converted Freighters (BCF), representing a freighter capacity growth of up to...
03.03.2021

Central Asia: another step towards digitalisation

Two trucks carrying cotton bound for Turkey have crossed the border from Tajikistan to Uzbekistan, using the TIR-EPD electronic customs pre-declaration for the first time in Tajikistan. Transport operator Sharipov Tojiddin...
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