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02.02.2021

Supporting air connections in remote Canada

The Covid-19 pandemic is having a significant impact on remote communities that depend on small air carriers for essential goods, services, and for access in and out of the community. The Canadian government is working with...

02.02.2021

More containers handled in Guadeloupe

The Grand Port Maritime de la Guadeloupe (GPMG) was not spared the effects of the global health crisis. Yet, although most indicators were down compared to 2019, container traffic recorded a growth of 6%. Between September...

02.02.2021

Internal shift at Continental

Continental has changed its management in the "specialty tyres" business unit: Wolfgang Thomale, head of the entire business unit which covers tyres for material handling, the agricultural, port and construction sectors...

02.02.2021

Cleaner air for Singapore

Filtration specialist Mann+Hummel and global recycling and environmental services company the Alba Group, have joined forces to launch a pilot project with the aim of significantly improving air quality standards in Singapore....

02.02.2021

Agility believes in Victoria

Kuwait-headquartered Agility will invest USD 35 million in Queen’s Gambit Growth Capital, a blank-check company that will target businesses offering sustainable solutions in a number of sectors, among them clean energy,...

02.02.2021

Sputnik V lands in La Paz

20,000 doses of the Sputnik V vaccine, “three times more than expected”, according to Bolivia’s president Luis Arce, arrived in the South American landlocked country last week. An aircraft of the state-owned airline Boliviana...

02.02.2021

Sealand: From Wilhelmshaven to Alexandria

Sealand, a Maersk company, has launched a new liner service. It connects Germany's only deep-water container port Wilhelmshaven with various destinations in the Eastern Mediterranean. From Wilhelmshaven, the vessels call at...

02.02.2021

Jiménez to drive XPO's growth in Iberia

XPO Logistics has appointed Luis Miguel Jiménez as senior business development director, supply chain logistics – Iberia. He will be responsible for driving the transport and logistics solutions provider's business growth in...

02.02.2021

"Curiosity of the Day"

Alcoholic beverages like wine or whisky may be artificially aged with ultrasound.

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...