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19.08.2022

Jaxport promotes James Bennett

Jaxport has promoted infrastructure development leader James Bennett, P.E., to the role of chief operating officer (COO). Bennett is a licensed professional engineer with more than three decades of transportation industry...

19.08.2022

Logistik Schmitt tests 40 t battery-powered truck

A new e-truck trial has started in Germany: Mercedes-Benz Trucks has launched a new phase of practical tests for the eActros at Logistik Schmitt in the northern part of the Black Forest. The battery electric eActros has now...

18.08.2022

More and longer trains every week

Rail services are becoming more and more important in the Spanish Port of Valencia. In H1/2022, 2,168 trains left or arrived at the port, carrying a total of 41,208 wagons, 8% more than in in H1/2021. The average length...

18.08.2022

Flying young birds in the South Pacific

Air New Zealand has given a helping wing to six young tūturuatu (Shore plover), relocating them from Hawke's Bay to their new home on Motutapu Island. The species is endemic to New Zealand and one of the world's rarest...

18.08.2022

Six more A321F for Qantas

Qantas Freight is increasing its domestic fleet with six Airbus A321 aircraft to meet growing e-commerce demand from its customers. Since the onset of Covid-19, the national carrier’s freight division has seen a step change in...

18.08.2022

A bed of roses?

Southampton-based Meachers Global Logistics has inked a three-year contract with Millbrook Beds. The new agreement, which dates back to 8 July 2022, sees Meachers move from supporting Millbrook Beds with the UK distribution of...

18.08.2022

150 trucks for long distance haulage

Hegelmann has placed an order for 150 Iveco S-WAY LNG and ten Iveco S-WAY CNG tractor units. The group already operates 20 LNG-powered Iveco trucks. The 150 trucks ordered will extend the green fleet for Hegelmann’s long distance...

18.08.2022

Hamburg attracts more containers

Better than expected: container throughput in Port of Hamburg showed a positive trend in H1/2022. 4.4 million teu were handled, about 1% more than in H1/2021. In the first six months of 2022, 117 ultra large container ships...

18.08.2022

Spencer Stuart picks Britt Bergen

With immediate effect, the international executive search and leadership consultancy Spencer Stuart has named Britt Bergen to strengthen its consulting services in the process manufacturing and supply chain sector. The...

18.08.2022

MSC adds service to West Africa

Swiss carrier MSC launched a new service to Guinea Bissau in West Africa. Every two weeks, the service will carry imports and exports to and from the destination via MSC's transhipment hub Las Palmas in the Canary...

18.08.2022

US contract logistics player turns French

French major player Geodis has acquired 100% of the shares of the US-American "Need It Now Delivers" from the private equity fund Palm Beach Capital and further stakeholders. The contract logistics company, founded...

18.08.2022

From helicopters to full freighters

The Russian Helix Airlines, which has been operating charter flights only with helicopters since 1994, has acquired four Ilyushin Il-76s and wants to expand internationally with the new aircraft. "We are preparing to...

18.08.2022

15 times larger in one fell swoop

Patriot Rail has entered into an agreement to acquire Denver-based Pioneer Lines, a railroad holding company that operates 15 short line railroads across 12 US states, from BRX Transportation Holdings. The acquisition,...

18.08.2022

Combi Lift takes Jens Siedentopf on board

Bremen-based project forwarder Combi Lift, a subsidiary of the Harren & Partner Group, has gained reinforcements. Jens Siedentopf, previously head of breakbulk and projects at the Dutch shipping company Samskip, joined Combi...

18.08.2022

Newest Cargo iQ software for Cathay Pacific

Cathay Pacific Cargo in Hong Kong has implemented Cargo iQ’s newest freight planning and monitoring milestones, Freight into Warehouse control (FIW) and Freight out of Warehouse control (FOW), to enhance the visibility of the...

18.08.2022

"Curiosity of the Day"

Scientists suspect that humans have a sixth and seventh sense of taste for fatty and metallic things.

18.08.2022

100% Peru

Hellmann Worldwide Logistics now holds all the shares in the Peruvian joint venture Hellmann Worldwide Logistics S.A.C, after Carlos Augusto Dammert, president of the board, decided to sell his stake of 50%. The company will now...

18.08.2022

Moving forward to zero-emission drive

Dachser is planning to put two hydrogen fuel-cell (FCEV) trucks into service in Germany in 2023. The forwarder will put a 27 t Hyundai Xcient truck on the road in Magdeburg and Berlin and a 19 t Enginius Bluepower in Hamburg....

18.08.2022

EFL Global celebrates 40th anniversary

Hanif Yusoof founded Expolanka Freight as a five-man team in a 27.9 sqm office in 1982. Commonly referred to as “Expo,” the Sri Lanka-based company aligned itself with global providers by offering flexible solutions with a...

18.08.2022

ZIM: best half-year results so far

The shipping group ZIM has published its consolidated results for Q2/2022. Volumes carried went down by 7% year-on-year to 856,000 teu (Q2/2021: 921,000 teu). H1/2020 saw 1.72 million teu handled compared to 1.74 million in...