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12.03.2020

Forgeries and fake ID in air cargo shipments

US customs and border protection (CBP) officers in Louisville, KY, where UPS is operating its global hub, have made no less than 400 seizures of counterfeit identification in the past six months, including 28 fake birth...

12.03.2020

Imperial opens next multi-user warehouse

Imperial has opened its latest multi-user warehouse, located in Werne, Germany. The new facility provides an under-cover storage area of 22,000 sqm with racking for over 21,000 pallets and 11,000 parts bins already installed, and...

12.03.2020

"Curiosity of the Day"

In 1964, William Shakespeare was the first non-royal person to be commemorated on a British postage stamp.

11.03.2020

Africa’s logistics requirements

Africa is developing rapidly in many a field – but in several countries the transport and logistics industry still lags behind. A report released by the Africa CEO Forum has named the main challenges facing the continent for its...

11.03.2020

Swiss railfreight company remains in the black

SBB Cargo achieved a result of CHF 3.0 million in 2019, and - thanks to exceptional singular effects – remains in the black. SBB Cargo International posted a result of CHF 5.5 million, lower than expected, which was particularly...

11.03.2020

DB Cargo launches new digital platform

DB Cargo has launched link2rail, a new central digital platform. Effective immediately, the portal offers services such as order processes, empty wagons management, track & trace and invoice data. "link2rail is the...

11.03.2020

Tiaca to use Clive's market analyses

Tiaca will deliver the very latest market and route analyses to its members after signing an intelligence sharing agreement with Clive Data Services, creators of the new "dynamic load factor" analyses. A MoU supports...

11.03.2020

Rhenus strengthens presence in the Americas

Rhenus Logistics has recently opened its first regional headquarters for the Americas in Miami. The logistics company, which currently has a strong presence in Europe, Asia and Africa, established its footprint in the Americas to...

11.03.2020

New managing director for Jettainer Americas

Shailendar Kothari is the new managing director of Jettainer Americas. The Jettainer subsidiary is based in Delaware and includes branches in Dallas, Chicago, Miami, New York and Los Angeles. In his new role, Kothari is...

11.03.2020

Special transport to Southern Italy

The activities of the industry - including project logistics - continue in Italy. The shipping company Grimaldi Group has been entrusted with the transportation from Spain to Italy of new wagons that will enhance the Naples metro...

11.03.2020

South Florida air cargo project takes new step

Airglades International Airport has broken ground on a new US customs and border protection facility that will replace the airport’s current general aviation terminal. The USD2.1 million, 4,000-square-foot (371 sqm) facility is...

11.03.2020

IRU forecasts alarming jump in driver shortage in Europe

The commercial freight driver shortage on the European continent will rise from 23% in 2019 to 36% in 2020. Poland and Romania are two of the most heavily impacted European countries, according to the latest report of the...

11.03.2020

New guide for maritime cyber security

The non-profit group Digital Container Shipping Association (DCSA), a neutral body established to further digitalisation of container shipping through technology standards, recently published the DCSA cyber security...

11.03.2020

Ceva Logistics opens own offices in Bangladesh

As part of its strategic expansion in the emerging Southeast Asian markets, Ceva Logistics has officially opened its own offices in Dhaka and Chittagong, Bangladesh. Ceva has been operational in Bangladesh for 17 years through a...

11.03.2020

MOL appoints new head for Mozambique and South Africa

MOL has appointed Mitsuru Fukushima as chief country representative for Mozambique and South Africa under the umbrella of the chief executive representatives for Europe and Africa, effective 1 April 2020. Based in the...

11.03.2020

ICS calls not to forget about IMO 2020

Maybe in the second line due to coronavirus precautions, port state control authorities nevertheless have been enforcing the IMO’s Sulphur 2020 since the beginning of March, making it an offence for ships to carry fuel that...

11.03.2020

Air Charter Service opens next office in USA

Believing that there is a large market for its cargo aircraft charter services in Chicago, Air Charter Service has opened a new office in the "Windy City", its tenth in the Americas. The highly experienced Caitlin...

11.03.2020

Imperial plans to invest in logistics startups

Imperial Logistics has partnered with venture capital firm Newtown Partners to launch a corporate venture capital (CVC) fund focused on investing in disruptive startups in the logistics industry, with an initial investment of USD...

11.03.2020

Innovative rail ferry for Lake Victoria

Students in the shipbuilding and marine technology master programme at the Bremen University of Applied Sciences have won the design competition of the worldwide ferry safety association (WFSA) with a prize money of USD 5,000....

11.03.2020

Kevin Ducksbury to lead the Air Charter Association

Kevin Ducksbury of Emerge Aviation has been chosen as the new chairman of the Air Charter Association, succeeding Nick Weston of Weston Aviation. Ducksbury is the first appointed chairman since the association’s rebrand in 2019...