17.03.2020

Port of Dunkirk stresses multimodality

More multimodal transports in Dunkirk: In total, the share of alternative modes to road in 2019 amounted to 65% of land-based traffic to and from the French port. Inland shipping increased by 200,000 t, driven by the...
17.03.2020

Palletways cooperates with Ziegler France

As from the end of March 2020, Palletways will cooperate with Ziegler France, one of the country’s prominent logistics services providers. The international logistics specialists runs a comprehensive network of more than 60...
17.03.2020

Cincinnati CBP Agriculture bars prohibited fruit

US customs and border protection agriculture specialists in Cincinnati have confiscated 1,927 kg of fresh strophanthus fruit since early February. The fresh fruit arrived in multiple shipments from Laos and was destined to...
17.03.2020

New giants on the horizon

OOCL is maintaining its contracts with shipyards Nantong Cosco KHI Ship Engineering (NACKS) and Dalian Cosco KHI Ship Engineering (DACKS) for five newbuilt container vessels. Each unit at a cost of USD 155.68 million will have a...
17.03.2020

Riia Sillave becomes CEO of HHLA TK Estonia

The container and multipurpose terminal HHLA TK Estonia, a subsidiary of Hamburg Hafen und Logistik, has appointed Riia Sillave as CEO. She succeeds Vladimir Popov, who is leaving the group. Born in Estonia, Sillave gained a...
17.03.2020

Dutch forwarder delivers with zero emissions

DAF Trucks has started field testing the CF Hybrid to gain experience in daily use. The Dutch transport operator Peter Appel is now using two of these innovative trucks to supply supermarkets in the heart of the Netherlands....
17.03.2020

Delays in fashion logistics

The rapid spread of the coronavirus is already having an impact on the German fashion industry. Setlog, a company that specialises in supply chain management software, has calculated that deliveries of goods from Asia are delayed...
17.03.2020

Exploring São Paulo's potential

Intermodal São Paulo, which was scheduled to be held from today, 17 to 19 March, has been cancelled at short notice and been put off to probably the second half of July. According to the latest Agility Emerging Market...
17.03.2020

UPS Board appoints Carol Tomé as CEO

The UPS board of directors has named Carol Tomé as UPS CEO from 1 June 2020. David Abney, the current chairman and CEO, will remain in his role until 1 June, when he'll become executive chairman of the board. He'll retire from...
17.03.2020

Chinese ebb in the port of Long Beach

A tandem torpedo hit the Californian port of Long Beach at the beginning of the year. The total number of boxes handled in January and February declined 7.1% compared to the same period in 2018. Lingering effects from the United...
17.03.2020

DHL Supply Chain and Locus Robotics expand partnership

In the USA, DHL Supply Chain and Locus Robotics, a provider in autonomous mobile robots (AMR) for fulfilment warehouses, have extended their partnership to include ten new, nationwide deployments of the Locus AMR solution in...
17.03.2020

"Curiosity of the Day"

While wild salmon are naturally pink due to the large amount of shrimp in their diet, farm-raised salmon eat differently. In order to achieve that pleasing pink colour, salmon farmers add carotenoids (plant pigments) to the fish...
16.03.2020

China believes in Wilhelmshaven

China Logistics first expansion into Europe will take it to the JadeWeserPort in the German state of Lower Saxony. The ambitions of the state-owned company are almost as great as the hopes of the port operator.
16.03.2020

Singapore Airlines renews, expands and innovates

Singapore Airlines (SIA) Cargo has been re-certified under Iata’s CEIV Pharma programme since January 2020. Since 2017, when SIA was the first airline in Asia Pacific to be awarded the pharmaceutical product handling...
16.03.2020

Block train for zinc-lead concentrate launched

Transcontainer has assembled and dispatched the first block train with zinc-lead concentrate to China. The train from the Noyon-Tologoy ore deposit in Zabaikalskiy Krai consists of 62 40-foot containers. The Russian carrier will...
16.03.2020

Sweden goes paperless with e-CMR

Sweden has confirmed its commitment to move towards fully paperless freight by acceding to the e-CMR protocol, the International Road Union (IRU) reported. In place since 2011, the digital version of the United Nations convention...
16.03.2020

New structure for BVL's board

The German logistics association (Bundesvereinigung Logistik, BVL) has announced changes at the helm. The chairman of the board Robert Blackburn will not stand for re-election at the coming AGM. As his reasons he gives increased...
16.03.2020

PSI Logistics forms partnership with agiplan

The software provider PSI Logistics and the consulting and planning company agiplan are forming a partnership to combine their strengths and competencies. They seek to optimise production and networks with the aim of providing...
16.03.2020

Protective masks flying into Italy... from China

As part of the efforts to combat Covid-19, a first relief flight with nine pallets of medical equipment landed on Rome's airport FCO at the end of last week. The recipient was the Italian Red Cross that immediately forwarded the...
16.03.2020

Maritime volume contraction like in 2009?

The Copenhagen (Denmark)-based maritime consultancy Sea-Intelligence predicts a Corona-caused decline of shippers' demand similar to the aftermath of the global financial crises in 2008 and 2009: "This implies a potential...
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