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02.12.2020

More transparency in gas transports with Swiss IT

As part of a modernisation programme, Tyczka Gase is equipping its entire fleet with IoT technology from Nexxiot. By the end of 2021, all compressed gas tank cars will be upgraded with a Globehopper module from the Swiss...

02.12.2020

Mondadori Group chooses logistics partner

The Milan-(Italy) headquartered Mondadori Group has contracted Ceva Logistics, an affiliate of CMA CGM, for another five years. The new contract of Italy's leading book and magazine publisher includes the transfer of the...

02.12.2020

Changes at Renault Trucks (Switzerland)

Daniela Schifferle (left), the head of the department marketing and communication of Renault Trucks (Switzerland) SA, has retired. She has been succeeded by French national Léa Orenga. Schifferle worked for 35 years in the...

02.12.2020

"Curiosity of the Day"

Even dinosaurs suffered from cancer.

02.12.2020

Swiss back in Santiago picking cherries from Chile

On 20 November 2020, a Swiss B777-300ER flight took off from Santiago de Chile. The last time Swiss flew to the Chilean capital was in 2008. In addition, the new flight was also special because of the cargo onboard: cherries. The...

02.12.2020

Garden City Terminal on the rise

The Port of Savannah’s Garden City Terminal has marked year-over-year increases for five consecutive months, and 34 out of the past 36 months. Recently, the port moved 363,000 teu in November, a 5.4% increase over the same...

02.12.2020

Siberian pellets now to be carried by rail

Russian intermodal operator Trans Container and Global Ports Group have launched a joint project to expedite the delivery of fuel pellets regularly every two weeks from Siberia to Europe via St Petersburg, Russia. The combination...

02.12.2020

Rolls-Royce moves in

In UK, the GMI Construction Group has completed its new national headquarters for RM Resources at Harrier Park in Hucknall, Nottingham. The contract to build the new 60,000 sqm building was awarded to GMI by urban...

02.12.2020

Delta reshuffles sales and cargo leadership

Rob Walpole has been appointed new vice president of Delta Cargo and Shawn Cole joins the global sales team as vice president global sales, a newly created position. Effective 1 December 2020, Cole succeeds Bob Somers, senior...

01.12.2020

Good connections

MVG Dinh Vu, a joint venture between MOL (67.5%) and Vietnamese partners, has started operations in a new warehouse in Haiphong for chemical and other hazardous goods. The Japanese enterprise is banking on the site’s proximity to...

01.12.2020

Asia-Pacific regional manager for Geodis

Eric Herman has joined supply chain operator Geodis, to strengthen its contract logistics activities in the Asia-Pacific region. He has 25 years of logistics experience in network and facility design, strategy and...

01.12.2020

Medway starts LNG transport

Lisbon-based freight operator Medway invested in 14 specific tank containers for the transport of liquefied natural gas (LNG) for the Portuguese energy provider GALP. The purchase follows an agreement between the two companies...

01.12.2020

All the best, Mr Hoyer!

The entrepreneur Thomas R.J. Hoyer is celebrating his 70th birthday today, 1 December. The current chairman of the advisory board of the Hamburg-based Hoyer Group, established by his father, Walter Hoyer, in 1946, has worked in...

01.12.2020

Combined cool facilities at Riyadh airport

The cargo ground handler and logistics provider Saudi Arabian Logistics Company (SAL) opened new dedicated cool facilities at the Cargo Village in Riyadh, specialising in perishables and all types of pharmaceuticals, including...

01.12.2020

No progress for climate protection in freight traffic

Germany is making but little progress in its efforts to take more cargo off the roads and improve climate protection. According to figures calculated by the German transport association Allianz pro Schiene, railfreight‘s...

01.12.2020

A successful 2020 for Xpediator

UK-based Xpediator, founded in 1988, has issued a trading update for the current year ending 31 December 2020. Trading has been strong and the group expects to report adjusted profit before tax of at least GBP 6.0 million (EUR...

01.12.2020

World trade still in turmoil

According to the report issued by the general customs administration of the People's Republic of China, Iran's trade with China during the first nine months of last year amounted to USD 18.17 billion. In contrast, total trade...

01.12.2020

Spanish ports in 2020 so far

Until and including October, Spain’s state-owned ports handled a total of 420.3 million t of merchandise, about 9.8% less than in the same period of the previous year. The volume of containers in international transit...

01.12.2020

Hellmann develops air cargo tracking tool

The global full-service provider Hellmann Worldwide Logistics is launching "SmartAir!", a new tool for the real-time tracking of air freight shipments. Together with the Bonn-based start-up BlueBox Systems, Hellmann...

01.12.2020

President of IG AirCargo Switzerland retiring

After ten years as the president of IG AirCargo Switzerland, Peter Somaglia is leaving the post. He retired from the airfreight business five years ago and said that he “has now lost daily contact with the industry and its...