27.05.2020

"Curiosity of the Day"

Saint-Louis-du-Ha! Ha! near Québec in Canada is the world's only place name with two exclamation marks. Westward Ho! in England has only one. 

26.05.2020

Scratched but not badly wounded

The crisis triggered by reactions to the outbreak of Covid-19 has also had an impact on logisticians’ figures for Q1 – albeit not a too dramatic one. Whilst a degree of optimism prevails in North America, DSV’s Danish managers...
26.05.2020

186 containers full of protective equipment for Lombardy

The German logistics services provider DB Schenker will deliver 186 containers with medical protective equipment from China to hospitals in Lombardy in Italy, an area that is particularly affected by the Covid-19 pandemic....
26.05.2020

Digitalisation helps Hupac brave corona crisis

In 2019, the Hupac group was able to shift more than 1 million truck consignments to the railways and achieve a satisfactory financial result. During the corona crisis, the company keeps its network up and running thanks to...
26.05.2020

New location in Asia to open

The Austria-headquartered logistics company Gebrüder Weiss's (GW) next air & sea office is to open in the South Korean capital of Seoul on 1 June 2020. Despite the difficulties caused by the coronavirus crisis, this...
26.05.2020

New division for high tech logistics

Cargo-partner has set up a dedicated department for high tech logistics at its headquarters near Vienna Airport. The service portfolio includes precisely timed deliveries with the company's own vehicle fleet, assembly and...
26.05.2020

Port of Melbourne appoints new head

Port of Melbourne has hired Shaun Mooney as executive general manager, commercial, with oversight of property and business development, reporting to Brendan Bourke, CEO. Mooney joins Port of Melbourne following a stint at...
26.05.2020

New Pakistan carrier takes over first cargo aircraft

Rostrum Leasing Ireland has delivered its first B737-300BCF to Air Falcon, a regional airline headquartered in Lahore, Pakistan. Converted by Pemco, the aircraft was ferried earlier this month from Victorville, California, to...
26.05.2020

No breakbulk fair, but nevertheless big event in Bremen

Some weeks ago, it was announced that Breakbulk Europe, the world's largest fair specialising in heavy cargo logistics, will not open today, 26 May 2020 but has been postponed to 29 September - 1 October. Nevertheless, the...
26.05.2020

Trial trains en route between Europe and China

Russian multimodal operator RZD Logistics is expanding the options for the transit of sanctioned goods from Europe through Russia to China. To this end, the company is testing transport services along the northern route through...
26.05.2020

Imperial rises to the challenge

Imperial now supports chemicals manufacturer Schirm in the storage and distribution of urgent hand sanitiser supplies destined for local authorities and healthcare workers. The company successfully set up all operations within 24...
26.05.2020

Port of Casablanca shows resilience

Morocco's port of Casablanca has reported its throughput figures for April 2020, the first month under Covid-19 anti-pandemic conditions. Total traffic recorded at the end of the month was at almost 10.5 million t, a surge of 6%...
26.05.2020

Bahamas Maritime Authority chooses new deputy director

The Bahamas Maritime Authority (BMA) has appointed Captain Ghulam Hussain as deputy director (maritime affairs) with responsibility for Bahamas representation at IMO and intergovernmental meetings. Hussain joins the BMA having...
26.05.2020

Fostering e-bills of lading globally

The Digital Container Shipping Association (Dcsa), in which most of the major carriers seek to standardise their digital activities, has put forward that the current pandemic forges the need to digitise the bill of lading (B/L)...
26.05.2020

Speculative real estate in Essen and Verden

In Germany, Panattoni has begun the construction of two speculative projects to put on the rental market. In Verden (Lower Saxony), the company is building a new logistics real estate with two halls on an 118,000 sqm plot....
26.05.2020

VTG completes long-term refinancing

VTG Aktiengesellschaft has successfully completed the refinancing of the group’s capital structure, establishing a solid long-term basis for further investment in the business, said the German wagon hire company. The EUR 2.9...
26.05.2020

Charter solutions where infrastructures are lacking

"Because of Alaska's challenging landscape and lack of infrastructure, Alaskan companies commonly rely on air transportation," says Tom Stenglein, president of Arctic On-Demand, a new Alaska-specific air charter...
26.05.2020

Peter Spuhler again CEO of Stadler Rail

Due to differences of opinion regarding Stadler's future strategy and organisation, the board of directors and the group CEO Thomas Ahlburg have decided to terminate the employment by mutual agreement. Until a successor is found,...
26.05.2020

"Curiosity of the Day"

Pure water will not conduct electricity - only water containing impurities can do that.
25.05.2020

Records and lifesavers

Railway transport services from China to Europe are amongst the beneficiaries of the downturn. In April the firms Duisport, Imperial and RCG were involved in projects.
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