In December 2019, the Canada Infrastructure Bank announced that it would invest CAD 300 million in financing the port of Montreal’s project to build a new container terminal in Contrecoeur. This optimism seems to be well...
Transmashholding (TMH) has launched its new Class 3TE25K2M 3-section mainline freight diesel locomotives with the delivering of the first batch of twelve new locomotives to the Russian locomotive depot in Komsomolsk-on-Amur....
Xantrex vice president and general manager Richard Gaudet is now president of Marine Power at Mission Critical Electronics, Xantrex’s parent company. Gaudet, who joined Xantrex in 1997 worked in a variety of roles before becoming...
Davies Turner is now offering consultancy services on the authorised economic operator programme following a surge in enquiries from existing and potential clients. Davies Turner chairman Philip Stephenson says: “As we’ve...
American Airlines reports Q4/2019 net income up 27.5% to USD 414 million, with total operating revenues up 3.4% to USD 11.3 billion. For 2019, net income rose by 19.4% to USD 1.6 billion, with revenues up 2.8% to USD 45.7...
Transplace, a Dallas (USA)-based provider of transportation technology and services, has appointed Greg Sebolt as its new executive vice president of strategic capacity services, the company’s over-the -road truck brokerage...
The Monaco-based ship manager firm Marfin Management will use bunker trace to track marine fuel, using synthetic DNA markers at specific points of the supply chain, and record each transaction in a block chain-based solution....
The new Boeing 777X took to the skies on 25 January 2020, entering the next phase of its test programme. Based on the B777 and with proven technologies from the B787 Dreamliner, the B777X took off at Paine Field in Everett (PAE)...
Move Intermodal, Belgium, has added 100 Kaessbohrer coil swap body vehicles to its fleet. The light coil swap body K. SWAU CC with a length of 13.7 m was designed and produced by Kässborer in corporation with its customer Move...
Two players in the courier, express and parcel services and logistics sector have formed a strategic partnership. Dirk Rahn (owner of Rahn Consulting) and Wolfgang Beecken (managing partner of first mile) will pool their market...
The age of many types of fish can be determined by examining their scales, which have growth rings similar to those in trees.
Presque tous en Suisse Romande connaissent PESA, cette société de Lausanne-Chavornay qui compte développer ses prestations de service dans l’expédition, le dédouanement et l’entreposage. Son directeur, Thierry Dornier, s’est...
German freight operator DB Cargo is ordering the first 50 locomotives from Toshiba and plans to lease another 50 locomotives. Preparations for assembling the locomotives start in 2021 at DB Cargo's maintenance depot in Rostock,...
Fedex Express is planning a series of investments in its Paris-Charles de Gaulle hub and various French cities to the tune of EUR 30 million in total, as it announced at the Choose France summit last week. Fedex will invest...
Wabash National Corporation, a producer of engineered solutions for the transportation, logistics and distribution industries, has appointed Mike Pettit senior vice president and CFO. As CFO, Pettit will be responsible for...
At the recent annual state of the port address executive director Mario Cordero was delighted to announce that 2019 had been the port of Long Beach's second-busiest year on record with a throughput of more than 7.6 million teu....
Western Sydney Airport CEO Graham Millett (centre) has signed with an additional two freight industry players to collaborate on the design of its freight precinct, adding to the ten freight industry partners already signed...
Russia’s Rail Cargo Logistics has started to ferry containers from Nanjing, the capital of Jiangsu Province in eastern China, through Mongolia to the Vorsino terminal in the Kaluga region in Russia. The first test train with 44...
Seko Logistics and Air & Ground World Transport (AG World) have signed a strategic partnership to create new cross-border growth opportunities for shippers doing business between Asia and the United States as global trade...
Magaya, a provider of logistics and supply chain software, has appointed Gary Nemmers, an accomplished senior software executive, to its board of directors. Nemmers brings extensive experience working with private...
