16.12.2020

Two more joint ventures in Africa

In Africa, new joint ventures in Egypt and Ethiopia have been concluded involving a major European player. In Egypt, IBA Freight Services, headquartered in Cairo close to the city’s international airport, has sold a majority...
16.12.2020

"Curiosity of the Day"

Of the 781,000 babies that were born in Germany in 2019, around 29,000 were multiples. Therefore, every 27th new born baby was a multiple.

16.12.2020

The hour of truth

On 1 December 2020, US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officers in Louisville halted four shipments, all from the same shipper in Hong Kong and headed to Salt Lake City, UT, that each contained 320 counterfeit Rolex watches....
16.12.2020

Banking on e-commerce

Elliott Rodgers has been elected to the board of directors of Levi Strauss & Co. He has more than a decade of experience in the retail industry. Stephen C. Neal, chair of the board: "Rodgers has deep knowledge of...
16.12.2020

Share sale raises almost USD 100 million

For the first time since 2013, the Manila-headquartered International Container Terminal Services, Inc. (ICTSI) has raised money by the equity offering of shares. The group achieved an output of PHP 4.7 billion (USD 97 million)...
16.12.2020

Grangemouth enhances rail facility

The Scottish port of Grangemouth is extending its railfreight offering to cement its position as the key strategic freight and export/import hub for Scotland. The GBP 3 million (EUR 3.3 million) investment will significantly...
16.12.2020

Medical contract for British player

Current Health, a provider of wearable healthcare devices and machine learning, aims to improve the delivery of patient care, deterioration prediction and research initiatives. To this end, the company has contracted Seko...
16.12.2020

Paycargo augments senior management team

Online freight payment platform Paycargo has appointed two new vice presidents to its senior management team. Marta E. Ramirez, who brings over 25 years of experience in the logistics industry, including roles at American...
15.12.2020

From northern Italy to Sweden in 48 hours

Kombiverkehr intends to increase the range of combined transport services on the important north-south corridor between Scandinavia, Finland, the Baltic states and Italy by launching an additional block train product....
15.12.2020

Canaryfly opts for full-freighter

The Spanish airline Canaryfly is expanding its fleet, which was only made up of passenger aircraft until now. Today, 15 December 2020, the company put its first full-freighter into operation.The unit, converted from an ATR...
15.12.2020

K Line welcomes newbuild

K Line has taken delivery of the “Cape Ace” 100,000-dwt bulker which was completed by Namura Shipbuilding, Imari Shipyard & Works. The vessel, compliant with the common structural rules for bulk carrier (CSR-BC), has wide...
15.12.2020

Belgian carrier continues steel transports

Lineas has extended its partnership with NLMK Europe. The Belgian railfreight operator will continue to drive the majority of train services for the global steel company's Belgian and French operations for the coming years. The...
15.12.2020

Sea-Intelligence expands management team

Sea-Intelligence, a Copenhagen-based provider of analysis in the container shipping industry, has appointed Bjorn Vang Jensen (photo), Jochen Gutschmidt, and David Macleod as vice presidents of the newly created advisory services...
15.12.2020

Transporting more Christmas

The Cwmbran (Southeast wales)-based logistics company Bridgetime Transport's services for its customer, Festive Productions, are in full swing. In the third year of their partnership, the Pall-Ex and Fortec shareholder member...
15.12.2020

Trucking lobbyists elect CCO

American Trucking Associations (ATA) has hired Mario Grande as the organisation’s chief commercial officer. He will oversee membership sales and operations, product development and marketing for the association, as well as sales...
15.12.2020

North American partners for air freight

AELF Flightservice, a privately held commercial aircraft leasing company with offices in Chicago, Miami, and Dublin, has partnered with Montreal-based Avianor for the conversion of its passenger A330-200s to auxiliary cargo...
15.12.2020

'Shift2030' campaigns for railfreight

A new initiative has been founded to support Europe’s railfreight sector. The aim of ‘Shift2030’ is to bring together all players involved in efforts to increase the modal shift of cargo from the roads to the railways and thus...
15.12.2020

Brexit on the other side of the channel

Normandy’s channel ports - Le Havre for Haropa and Caen-Ouistreham, Cherbourg and Dieppe for Ports of Normandy - have joined forces to help supply chain actors to be as ready as they can be for Brexit when it comes into force on...
15.12.2020

Vaccine distribution takes off in USA

In cooperation, Fedex and UPS have started the roll-out of Pfizer’s vaccines against Covid-19 in the United States. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recently gave its green light for the drug’s emergency public use. The...
15.12.2020

High hopes in Colombia's coffee triangle

It is not only because of the altitude that you require strong staying power and a head for heights when planning a new airport in the Eje Cafetero, a region situated at an altitude of 1,200 to 2,000 m above sea level between...
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