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14.08.2019

GAC appoints new vice president for Americas Region

GAC group president Bengt Ekstrand has announced the appointment of Pontus Fredriksson as group vice president – Americas, following the retirement of Bob Bandos, who held the position since March 2018. Bandos was part of the...

14.08.2019

Dachser to build hub in northern Germany

The logistics services provider Dachser intends to build a new subsidiary in Neumünster between Hamburg and Kiel in Germany. The facility will contain a cargo handling terminal for industrial goods and foodstuffs. About EUR 17.4...

14.08.2019

Pamyra expands into Switzerland

For some time now, shippers have been able to use the www.pamyra.de website to compare and book logistics services in most countries of the European Union. Now the platform is expanding its offer into Switzerland. Shippers can...

14.08.2019

HMM joins up two of its services in the APAC region

South Korea’s Hyundai Merchant Marine has linked its Transpacific PS2 service to its China-India Express (CIX). This way, fourteen instead of fifteen ships of between 6,000 teu and 8,500 teu will call weekly at the following...

14.08.2019

Turning point on the east-west axis

The Xi'an International Port Area and Swiss intermodal operator Hupac have launched their cooperation aimed at boosting railfreight services between Italy and China. Recently, the first Milan-Xi’an train left the terminal Busto...

14.08.2019

United Cargo paves way for new online portal

United Cargo has joined forces with WebCargo by Freightos, which has been helping forwarders to automate rate management and back-office operations since 2008, to design and implement a new online portal to provide customers...

14.08.2019

“Curiosity of the Day”

British soldier Robert Campbell was captured by the Germans in France in August 1914 during World War I. Two years later in the prisoner-of-war camp he received the news that his mother was suffering from cancer. He then wrote to...

14.08.2019

Bremen restores the river Billerbeck to its natural state

As a compensatory measure, the port operator bremenports in Germany is currently attempting to return the middle and upper courses of the Billerbeck, a river near the port, to their natural state. The company has also drawn...

14.08.2019

Gebrüder Weiss opens office in Uzbekistan

The Austrian transport and logistics company Gebrüder Weiss is strengthening its position along the new Silk Road. The company recently opened a representative office in the Uzbek capital of Tashkent. “With this move we...

14.08.2019

Final result of the public exchange of Panalpina shares

On 13 May 2019, DSV published a public exchange offer for all publicly held registered shares of Panalpina. Yesterday, 13 August 2019, DSV released the definitive notice of the final result of the offer. Up to the expiration...

14.08.2019

Reducing Tyrol's truck traffic by 1,300 vehicles per day

Great efforts are being made to extend the rolling motorway (RoMo) in Austria in order to reduce congestion on Tyrol’s road networks. As of 1 January 2020, there will be one train per day on the Regensburg (Germany) – Trento...

13.08.2019

Two new special trucks to salvage vehicles

Road Help sees itself as a straightforward “towing service”. Two new special vehicles from Renault Trucks have been added to the company’s 50 vehicle fleet. One of them is a D WIDE 380 P4x2 LOW. With its particularly low...

13.08.2019

Caribbean Airlines Cargo teams up with Alaska Airlines

Cool and hot: Before concluding an interline agreement with Air Canada (see upcoming ITJ 31-35/2019, p. 13), Caribbean Airlines Cargo has entered into an interline agreement with Alaska Airlines, adding further 16 destinations...

13.08.2019

New entity for exchange of port information

The Port of Rotterdam launched its new company Portxchange Products (“Portxchange”) recently. This entity will offer the Pronto platform and application to ports on a worldwide scale over the next few years. First strategic...

13.08.2019

Bruce A. Fenimore and Sara Mayes to receive CII awards

Bruce A. Fenimore, CEO of Columbia Group, will receive the 2019 Connie Award presented by the containerisation & intermodal institute (CII) on 9 December 2019. The industry-wide event to honour Fenimore will be held at the...

13.08.2019

Eastern Europe prefers electric locomotives

Despite climate commitments and decarbonisation strategies, the European market for electric locomotives is showing rather mixed results. Significant growth can only be expected in the east, while demand in Western Europe will...

13.08.2019

BLG handles logistics for fischerwerke

With immediate effect, BLG Logistics has taken charge of all logistic services for articles from the fischer-System-Tec-product portfolio and the fischer standard fixings range as a strategic partner of the Fischer group. ...

13.08.2019

K Line's new design for an LNG carrier

The Japan-based Kawasaki Kisen Kaisha (K Line) and Namura Shipbuilding have signed an AIP (approval in principle) for the concept design of an LNG-fuelled ore carrier from DNV. According to the classification company, this...

13.08.2019

Lothar Thoma replaces Heinz Senger-Weiss

Heinz Senger-Weiss has announced his withdrawal from the operative management of Gebrüder Weiss. The managing director air & sea will leave the transport and logistics company for personal reasons on 31 December 2019."We...

13.08.2019

Heaviest jumbo train completes successful trial run

A Freightliner 3,690-horsepower Class 70 locomotive recently hauled a train with a cargo of aggregate between Merehead in Somerset and Acton in London, UK. Weighing 4,624 t, this is the heaviest ‘jumbo’ train currently running in...