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11.02.2021

DB Cargo UK in port of Southampton

Associated British Ports (ABP) has invested GBP 300,000 (EUR 342,000) in a new rail service at the port of Southampton. This is the first automotive service to operate in the Western Docks, as ABP expands its rail offer at...

11.02.2021

Chinese companies plan big takeover

SF (Shun Feng) Holding, which is listed on the Shenzen stock exchange, is offering to buy a 51.5% stake in Kerry Logistics Network, Hong Kong. The cash offer involves more than 931 million shares costing HKD 18.80 (USD 0.56) per...

11.02.2021

Double-digit growth for Hong Kong

In January 2021, cargo throughput at Hong Kong International Airport (HKIA) saw year-on-year growth of 14.1% to 409,000 t, while freighter movements surged 37.2% to 6,055 from 4,413 compared with the same month last year. Cargo...

11.02.2021

Strengthening Asia region team

Columbia Shipmanagement (CSM), a global ship manager and maritime service provider founded in Cyprus, has appointed Demetris Chrysostomou as managing director of its Asia region. As a part of CSM’s growth ambition, he will work...

11.02.2021

Alternative units for open seas

Given the limited space in a tight sea freight market from China to Europe, Geodis has launched a number of services with alternative units. The first, a 1,000 teu capacity vessel, is scheduled to arrive in Hamburg on 28...

11.02.2021

A vessel ahead of schedule

Yang Ming, a member of The Alliance, took delivery of another 11,000 teu new chartered vessel ‘YM Target’ this month. With the support from the ship owner, ‘YM Target’ has joined Yang Ming’s global fleet nearly three months ahead...

11.02.2021

Handling unit trains with 100+ railcars

The US Victoria county navigation district, owner and operator of the port of Victoria, has secured a USD 6 million grant through the economic development administration (EDA) for a proposed rail expansion project. This...

11.02.2021

Birth of Burundi Airlines

A new national carrier has been established in the Central African country, thirteen years after Air Burundi went out of business. Burundi Airlines is the result of the merger of its almost forgotten predecessor, which was...

11.02.2021

Swissport elects president and CEO

Swissport International AG has appointed Warwick Brady as president and CEO. He will succeed Christoph Mueller, who joined Swissport January 2021 as ad-interim CEO and who will become chairman of the board of directors when Brady...

11.02.2021

DSV benefits from 2020

If a company is pushing a share buyback programme, its war chest is full. That is the case of the Danish DSV, which has reported its annual results for 2020. Revenues for the full year amounted to almost DKK 116 billion (EUR...

11.02.2021

TIR as solution for Brexit customs woes

A special shipment of essential medical supplies from Poland has arrived in UK by truck, promoting the TIR system to firms that continue to struggle with Brexit paperwork, delays and a shortage of customs brokers and transit...

11.02.2021

Death of Latam Argentina

Eight months after suspending its flight operations, Latam Argentina has now officially ceased to exist. Flights between twelve destinations in Argentina as well as four international connections (Miami, São Paulo, Santiago de...

11.02.2021

"Curiosity of the Day"

The former 43th US President George W. Bush (2001-2009) signs the pictures he paints as a hobby with “43“.

11.02.2021

New equipment for Antwerp

Antwerp Container Terminal (ACOT), a member of the SEA-invest Group, has placed an order for two Liebherr ship-to-shore container cranes. The cranes are identical to one already delivered in 2020. SEA-invest is active in 25...

11.02.2021

Data converter for customs handling

There is a growing need among companies for solutions to integrate existing excel or CSV data into customs applications in order to better visualise customs processes and avoid double entries. In response to this market...

11.02.2021

Changes at Aspa

Beth Ann Frisher will join the Alabama State Port Authority (Aspa) senior management team as new chief commercial officer, effective 18 February 2021. Bringing commercial maritime experience at the senior level in both the...

10.02.2021

Japan–UK by ship and rail in just 42 days

Russian Railways (RZD) and Maersk have launched the first transit container train with cargo from Japan on the Trans-Siberian route. Maersk recently dispatched the first container train loaded with Japanese freight from the...

10.02.2021

AN-124 carries Thai Dornier aircraft

Ruag MRO International is comprehensively modernising Dornier 228 aircraft for the Royal Thai Navy, which uses them to monitor the exclusive economic zone called the "200-mile zone" of the Gulf of Thailand....

10.02.2021

Italian shuttle service launched

Shipping and logistics group CMA CGM has introduced the Piacenza Rail Shuttle. The new rail service connects the Italian port of Genoa with the Piacenza logistics hub and is operated in cooperation with the Italian intermodal...

10.02.2021

Three new associate partners

Three cold packaging specialists - Cold Chain Technologies, headquartered in Holliston (MA), Sonoco ThermoSafe, headquartered in Arlington Heights (IL), and Tower Cold Chain Solutions, from Theale (UK) - are joining Pharma.Aero...