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02.02.2021

Alliance for e-truck leasing

Truck rental and consultancy company Fraikin Deutschland, winner of the “European transport award for sustainability 2020, and e-mobility specialist Quantron want to speed ahead with long-term lease services in 2021. The aim...

02.02.2021

Ipsen's integration completed

As of 1 February, Gebrüder Weiss adds Poland and Malaysia to the countries where the company operates under its own brand: the country organisations and the 126 employees taken over from Ipsen Logistics in late 2020 are now fully...

01.02.2021

Further routes from China to Finland

Nurminen Logistics’ Chinese container train traffic volumes tripled during 2020. To meet the increased demand, the company will open three new train routes from China to Finland with a Suzhou, Ningbo and Jinan line. On 19...

01.02.2021

If you're going to San Francisco...

The addition of Seattle from today, 1 February 2021 (followed by a fifth weekly flight to São Paulo four days later), Dallas and San Francisco (2 March) will take Emirates’ North American network to ten destinations following the...

01.02.2021

Quietly and sustainably on track

Metrans has fitted its entire 3,000-container wagon fleet with what are known as “whispering” (composite) brakes. This means that the carrier has already implemented the ban on noisy freight trains in Germany. Metrans wagons...

01.02.2021

New managing director at Bolloré Nigeria

Bolloré Transport & Logistics Nigeria has appointed Folashade Akanni-Shelle as new managing director, taking over from Jean-Baptiste Rambaud, who is pursuing his career in the group’s Middle East region. Akanni-Shelle...

01.02.2021

Combitras joins Gruber Logistics

Gruber Logistics - repre has acquired provider Combitras, thus adding two new branches to its network in central Italy. Combitras is a historically grown company with over 30 years of experience in part loads and integrated...

01.02.2021

Slight setback in ports worldwide

In December 2020, the flash estimate for its container throughput index published by the German research body Rheinisch-Westfälisches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung (RWI - Leibniz) and the Institute of Shipping Economics and...

01.02.2021

Jaxport berths enhanced

The Jacksonville Port Authority in Florida (USA) has completed another phase of a USD 104 million public-private quay enhancement project in the SSA Jacksonville Container Terminal (SSA JCT) on Blount Island, adding more than 210...

01.02.2021

More than 100 new vehicles ordered

Typically short routes and as a result frequent starts and stops: waste disposal companies demand extreme robustness from trucks. And adherence to schedules and constant availability – the demands on the recycling and waste...

01.02.2021

155 PAX aircraft temporarily converted in 2020

Further to British aviation analyst Cirium, 155 aircraft had most if not all of their passenger seats removed last year in order to transport cargo in the cabin. Increased demand for PPE manufactured in Asia required fast...

01.02.2021

A future for young people?

Europa Worldwide Group, a specialist road, air & sea and warehouse operator, aims to support young people by developing its own career programme. The RAPID career development programme for school-leavers has been re-launched...

01.02.2021

HSF changes hands

Danish DFDS has acquired the cold chain logistics company HSF Logistics Group, which provides temperature-controlled services for food producers. The group operates four brands, with HSF Logistics being a major player in the...

01.02.2021

VP promotions at Bolt Express

Bolt Express, headquartered in Toledo (Ohio), has promoted three new members to its senior management team. Jorge Cazares, who has 20 years of experience in expedite transportation, has been promoted to vice president,...

01.02.2021

Rotterdam: Innovation boosts railway

The C.RO Ports terminal in the Botlek in Rotterdam will be the first terminal to add ‘VEGA-VTG plates’ to its portfolio. These platforms can be used for transporting non-craneable trailers by rail. The trailer is driven onto the...

01.02.2021

Reception in Miami

Global Crossing Airlines Group, operating as "GlobalX", has taken delivery of its first A320 aircraft, marking the beginning of the new airline which has also big cargo plans. Chairman and CEO Ed Wegel: "We are...

01.02.2021

"Curiosity of the Day"

In 1914, it took 93 minutes to build a Ford Model T on the assembly line.

01.02.2021

Jan de Rijk augments fleet

Dutch company Jan de Rijk Logistics, with headquarters in Roosendaal, is enhancing its fleet. Daniel Uijtdewillegen, its director for international transport, recently received the keys of the first batch of new trucks from Johan...

01.02.2021

Port of Brussels shows resilience

While waterway transport is under pressure because of the economic slowdown caused by pandemic, overall traffic in the port of Brussels moved sideways in 2020 (+0.3%). The port handled 4.95 million t of cargo for Brussels in 2020...

29.01.2021

The industry remained lively

The contradictory news of 2020 included hiring freezes and people frequently changing jobs. Moritz Blaser, a specialist in human resource services, explained the background of this and other paradoxes to Christian Doepgen.