13.03.2020

New 52-foot container carriers added

Short, weight-optimised 52-foot container carriers, known as SGMNS, have just been added to Kombiverkehr's existing fleet of wagons. Thus the fleet now comprises 362 proprietary wagons with a total capacity for more than 500...
13.03.2020

Europe's biggest cargo gateway feels sick in February

This is no surprise: In February 2020, Frankfurt airport, Europe's biggest air cargo hub, witnessed cargo throughput (airfreight + airmail) shrinking by 8% to 148,500 t. The impact of the coronavirus, particularly towards the...
13.03.2020

New project cargo director for Bati Group

The Turkish company Bati Group has appointed Erman Atik as its new project director and head of breakbulk & project cargo forwarding. Atik has over 20 years of professional experience in the fields of breakbulk and...
13.03.2020

Hellmann: contract logistics for Jakks Pacific

Hellmann Worldwide Logistics will manage all contract logistics for the US toy manufacturer Jakks Pacific. As part of the cooperation, Hellmann will handle around 360,000 cartons per year in its warehouse in Rotterdam in the...
13.03.2020

Airport on Shetland's main island to close

Scatsta airport (SCS), the historic airfield on Mainland, the main island of Shetland, will shut down at the end of June. The airport was originally developed by the Royal Air Force 80 years ago. It was awakened in 1978 from...
13.03.2020

Wilhelmshaven reaches Top 20

In the rankings of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Güterverkehrszentren (DGG), which are published once every five years, the Güterverkehrszentrum (GVZ) of the Jade Weser Port Wilhelmshaven has reached the Top 20 of Europe's...
13.03.2020

Scotland promotes shift from road to rail

The Scottish government has allocated GBP 1.49 million (EUR 1.7 million) to the sustainable building materials group Tarmac in a freight facilities grant. The fund, which is open to companies looking to move freight by the more...
13.03.2020

Gecas appoints two new heads

Gecas, a commercial aircraft financing and leasing company, has appointed Jonty Nel as Gecas’ EVP commercial – International and John Bordeaux as new chief investment officer. Both will take up their role from April 2020. Nel...
13.03.2020

Profits down for Swiss Post

Swiss Post posted a disappointing result in 2019, generating a group profit of CHF 255 million, CHF 149 million down from 2018. At CHF 450 million, operating profit (ebit) was CHF 55 million or 11% lower than in the previous year...
13.03.2020

"Curiosity of the Day"

There are about 1,500 active volcanoes on the surface of the earth with perhaps 100,000 more under the sea.
12.03.2020

US railroad heads for a more sustainable future

Union Pacific (UP) intends to set science-based targets to determine a time-plan and strategy for the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions. A letter of commitment was submitted to the science based targets initiative (SBTi),...
12.03.2020

CLA and coronavirus (don't) affect ABC

AirBridgeCargo Airlines, the scheduled carrier of Russia's Volga-Dnepr Group, is about to terminate lease agreements for five out of its 21 B747Fs. Talks are being held with Gecas and Sberbank Leasing. In other news, the...
12.03.2020

China - Thailand in five days

In China, the Qinghai international intermodal train with railway containers carried by Hong-Kong-based SITC successfully sailed from Chongqing railway central station to Thailand within five days. According to the logistics...
12.03.2020

Etihad Cargo launches mobile tracking app

Etihad Cargo, the cargo and logistics arm of Etihad Aviation Group, has expanded its digital portfolio by launching the first version of its mobile application, offering customers the ability to gain real time access to...
12.03.2020

ONE enhances TPV service

The Singapore-headquartered Ocean Network Express (ONE) will introduce a new call to Batangas on its Thailand Philippines Vietnam (TPV) service starting from April 2020. The TPV service currently connects Laem Chabang and Cai Mep...
12.03.2020

Logistics centre for tyre retailer

The Engler Group and Garbe Industrial Real Estate are building a new logistics property in Ensisheim, Alsace, France on a 185,000 sqm site. The project comprises two halls, of which one has already been leased to Delticom, an...
12.03.2020

L.I.T. adds three executives to its board

The L.I.T. group has chosen three more board members. Effective immediately, the following executives will reinforce the company's top management: Simeon Breuer, managing director L.I.T. freight forwarding, Ingo Schreiber,...
12.03.2020

Seven charter flights to South Sudan

Kintetsu World Express (KWE), in partnership with Chapman Freeborn, recently completed a series of seven A300F charter flights from Dubai (DWC) to Juba, the capital of South Sudan, uplifting over 230 t of aid and relief...
12.03.2020

Low-emission trucks to transport textiles

For delivering its goods to a large fashion customer, German fashion logistics company Meyer & Meyer now deploys a 12 t vehicle and two long trucks which the also German-based manufacturer Orten Electric-Trucks has converted...
12.03.2020

Iraq volumes push ACT's throughput

The Aqaba Container Terminal (ACT) on the Red Sea saw a volume growth of 3.4% for the period of August to December 2019 compared to the previous year. The first two months of 2020 confirmed the trend with a growth in import...
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