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14.05.2019

New board member for Spedlogswiss Northwest Switzerland

At its annual general meeting in Basel (Switzerland), the Northwest Switzerland chapter of the logistics association Spedlogswiss re-elected Thomas Knopf, CEO of Ultra-Brag president of the board. Vice president Thomas Herzog,...

14.05.2019

More equipment for the port of Maputo

Maputo, the capital and major port of Mozambique (East Africa), was the site where Liebherr recently handed over two Liebherr mobile harbour cranes type LHM 550 to MPDC for bulk handling operations. The port city on the...

14.05.2019

Antonov and Bolloré bring aid to Mozambique

Antonov Airlines has flown aid and personnel from Chalons Vatry (France) to Beira (Mozambique) to assist with humanitarian efforts in the region in the aftermath of cyclone Idai. In addition to a 65-t payload of malaria...

14.05.2019

Prologis and L’Oréal open carbon-neutral hub

Prologis and L’Oréal have opened their new carbon-neutral logistics facility in Muggensturm, south of Karlsruhe (Germany). The real estate covers an area of more than 100,000 sqm and is therefore L’Oréal’s largest distribution...

14.05.2019

Iaph re-elects Santiago Garcia-Milà as president

Santiago Garcia-Milà, deputy general manager for strategy and commercial of the port of Barcelona, has been re-elected president of the international association of ports and harbours (Iaph) for the third consecutive term, at the...

14.05.2019

Extended breakdown service for trucks and trailers

Eurowag has entrusted Europe Net with its European breakdown service. In future, Eurowag customers can call for immediate assistance in 38 European countries and 24 languages via a free international hotline and pay for services...

14.05.2019

Port of Cork: recognition for fundraising efforts

The port of Cork (Ireland) and its partners were ‘highly commended’ at the recent Seatrade Awards in the ‘deal of the year’ category in recognition of their work in securing the funding for the development of the new CCT in...

14.05.2019

Alitalia Cargo to lift up CSafe RAP

CSafe Global, a leading provider of active and passive temperature-controlled packaging solutions for pharmaceutical products, has announced that Alitalia has approved the recently launched CSafe RAP for lift. This container from...

14.05.2019

Panalpina's AGM approves all board proposals

At the annual general meeting (AGM) of Panalpina World Transport, 62.24% of the share capital was represented. All proposals of the board of directors were approved by a clear majority, and Thomas E. Kern was elected as chairman...

14.05.2019

Esla appoints new director business development

The European Service Logistics Association (Esla) has appointed Dirk Bongartz as director business development. Dirk Bongartz will develop Esla’s future strategy in the European markets and strengthen the market penetration and...

14.05.2019

New container train to link Cologne and Hamburg

In Germany, CTS Container Terminal and IGS Intermodal Container Logistics have launched a new container train connection between Cologne and the ports of Hamburg and Bremerhaven. With the new shuttle train, the port of...

14.05.2019

London remains the hot spot for arbitration

Research of the maritime-focused law firm HFW has underpinned the impression that London (UK) continues to dominate the market for maritime arbitration - despite suggestions that Brexit would see activity shift to emerging...

14.05.2019

Fercam takes over Maimex' operations in Asia

The logistics services provider Fercam from South Tyrol (Italy) has taken over the airfreight and seafreight operations of Maimex, a company based in Pioltello near Milan.With this acquisition, Fercam intends to expand its...

14.05.2019

Italy:100 new locomotives and 714 freight wagons

The Italian state-owned transport group, FS Italiana, intends to expand its infrastructure, rolling stocks and services by investing EUR 58 billion over the next four years, according to the group’s new 2019-2023 industrial plan....

14.05.2019

Dachser USA launches automotive competence centre

Continuing its commitment to developing automotive sector logistics solutions, Dachser USA recently inaugurated the automotive competence centre in Atlanta, which provides dedicated customer service teams that are trained to...

14.05.2019

“Curiosity of the Day”

Sea otters hold hands when they sleep so that they don't drift apart. This is a method mostly used by a mother and her pup to prevent them from separating. Other than holding hands, they may also wrap themselves in kelp to make...

14.05.2019

Making France's air transport sector more competitive

A strategic government agenda to improve competitiveness in France’s air transport sector could generate an additional 500,000 jobs and nearly EUR 60 billion in extra GDP for the nation’s economy by 2037. These conclusions were...

13.05.2019

Containers push up revenues

In 2018 Marsa Maroc, the Casablanca-based leading Moroccan port operator, managed to increase its revenues to MAD 2.7 billion (approximately EUR 250 million). The corporation said that this was due substantially to growing...

13.05.2019

Power supply for freight wagons

There are now smart solutions for transporting pharmaceuticals and foodstuffs by rail. One such is the rCE Powerpack which VTG will use in future. Equipping container wagons with power gives VTG clients the possibility to...

13.05.2019

Southeast Asian expansion of APL's JTV service

The CMA CGM affiliate APL has announced that the Japan Thailand Vietnam (JTV) service is extending its port rotation to the Philippines and within South China. The service will now be calling at three additional ports in Manila...