28.01.2020

Gothenburg celebrates all-time record for railfreight

Container freight from the whole of Sweden is being increasingly channelled to the port of Gothenburg by rail. In total, 456,000 teu were transported through the Swedish port by this mode of transport in 2019. This represents...
28.01.2020

Rock-it Cargos named freight forwarder of the year

Rock-it Cargo, a provider of logistics services to live event shippers, has been honoured with the 2019 Parnelli freight forwarder of the year award. Rock-it non-executive chairman and outgoing CEO David Charles Bernstein was at...
28.01.2020

Logistics for luxury boats

DHL Supply Chain has signed a new five-year contract to provide logistics services to Sunseeker International, the Poole (UK)-based luxury yacht manufacturer, at a ceremony at the Düsseldorf Boat show. Working in close...
28.01.2020

An interesting year for the port of Montreal

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...
28.01.2020

New locomotives to increase capacity by 20%

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....
28.01.2020

Mission Critical Electronics: changes at the top

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...
28.01.2020

Davies Turner launches AEO consultancy services

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...
28.01.2020

Performance down, but solid yields for American

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...
28.01.2020

Transplace appoints new head

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...
28.01.2020

Marfin opts for fuel check solution

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....
28.01.2020

Boeing completes first B777X flight

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)...
28.01.2020

Light swap body improves carriage of heavy coils

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...
28.01.2020

Rahn Consulting and first mile join forces

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...
28.01.2020

“Curiosity of the Day”

The age of many types of fish can be determined by examining their scales, which have growth rings similar to those in trees.

27.01.2020

“Deeply rooted“

There aren’t many people in the Suisse Romande who do not know PESA. The Lausanne Chavornay-based company is set to expand its forwarding, customs clearance and warehousing services. Christian Doepgen spoke to director Thierry...
27.01.2020

Acquisition of eco-friendly shunting locomotives on track

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,...
27.01.2020

Fedex Express announces major investments in France

 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...
27.01.2020

Wabash restructures its management team

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...
27.01.2020

The port of Long Beach looks ahead

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....
27.01.2020

Western Sydney Airport signs with Dnata and Toll

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...
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