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26.02.2019

Good January at Jaxport

The Florida-based Jacksonville Port Authority (Jaxport) had a good start into the year. CEO Eric Green announced that container movements had increased by 16% compared to the same month in 2017. Almost 122,000 teus were handled....

26.02.2019

New position for Michael Gehrken

The members of the Swiss association of driving instructors (SFV) have elected Michael Gehrken as their new president. He succeeds Pierre-André Tombez, who took over the mandate on an interim basis after the resignation of the...

26.02.2019

Acito Logistics wins new customer

Acito Logistics has won another customer from the automotive sector. The logistics company from Weil am Rhein (Germany), located close to the German-Swiss frontier, will be responsible for the customer’s warehouse logistics and...

26.02.2019

Three die on Atlas Air/Amazon B767 freighter crash

Atlas Air Worldwide has confirmed that the three people on board Atlas Air flight 3591 did not survive the accident on 23 February 2019, just before landing at George Bush intercontinental airport in Houston, Texas (USA). The...

26.02.2019

New port strategy of Djibouti continues

On 22 February 2018 the State of Djibouti prematurely terminated the Doraleh container terminal concession, which was granted in 2006 to Doraleh Container Terminal (DCT), a company mainly managed by DP World. While the legal...

26.02.2019

New mega trailers to transport car components

In Sweden, Dachser is organising the transport of replacement parts for Volvo Cars from Torslanda, a suburb of Gothenburg, to Dachser’s subsidiary in Gothenburg and from there to Volvo Cars’ warehouses in Germany. Dachser...

26.02.2019

Neel Jones Shah joins Tiaca board of directors

Neel Jones Shah, senior vice president and global head of airfreight at Flexport, has been appointed to the Tiaca board of directors. Shah, who previously served on the Tiaca board from 2011 to 2012, has almost 20 years of...

26.02.2019

Symbia acquires iD Commerce + Logistics

Symbia Logistics, a Colorado-based warehousing, logistics and e-commerce fulfilment company has recently acquired Chicago-based iD Commerce + Logistics (IDC), a leader in third-party logistics and e-commerce fulfilment. ...

26.02.2019

Saudia Cargo opens sales office in Dubai

Saudi Airlines’ cargo company has inaugurated a brand-new cargo sales office in the free zone of Dubai international airport (DXW). It has been operational since 27 January 2019. The opening of the new sales office...

26.02.2019

Merger of Hapag-Lloyd with UASC bears fruit

The Hamburg-based carrier Hapag-Lloyd achieved a more satisfactory result in 2018 than in previous years. On the basis of preliminary and unaudited figures, its Ebitda surged by almost 8% to EUR 1.14 billion (2017: EUR 1.05...

26.02.2019

New weekly train runs from China to Belarus

RZD Logistics organised the rail transport of Geely knock-down kits from China to the JV car manufacturer BelGee’s assembly factory in Belarus in about 14 days. The first four container trains set off in accordance with a...

26.02.2019

Tim Hoffmeister becomes CEO of Implico Group

Tim Hoffmeister has taken over the newly created position of CEO of Implico Group. He will manage the finance and controlling department and be responsible for administration and HR. Hoffmeister joined the software and...

26.02.2019

“Curiosity of the Day”

The open stone stairs in medieval castles always spiralled anticlockwise so that right-handed invaders would have their sword arm impeded by the wall, while defenders had full sweep.

26.02.2019

Kerry Logistics introduces IoT solution

Kerry Logistics is putting the internet of things (IoT) into practice in international shipments with the introduction of a smart sensor that enables total supply chain visibility and security measures. With this new product,...

26.02.2019

ABC - D(haka)

Dhaka (DAC) becomes the 14th destination in Airbridge Cargo’s Asian network. ABC will offer customers twice-weekly frequencies to the capital of Bangladesh to accommodate the country’s emerging export flows, which have seen...

25.02.2019

USA: Implementation of PTC system well on track

All necessary PTC system hardware was installed, radio spectrum acquired, employees trained, and testing initiated, by the end of 2018, according to the Federal Railroad Administration (FRA). Host railroads' operations are...

25.02.2019

Hybrid HGV for silent overnight deliveries in Stockholm

Scania’s newly-launched plug-in hybrid truck is now being deployed in silent night-time deliveries to McDonald’s restaurants in Stockholm (Sweden). Due to noise restrictions, downtown deliveries are normally not permitted in the...

25.02.2019

Scrubbers are the order of the day

Another contract for marine scrubbers underlines the ongoing transformation of the world's shipping fleets - and yet more business for supplier CR Ocean Engineering (Croe). A USA-based shipping company is now retrofitting...

25.02.2019

Krummen Kerzers - happy with Haribo

The canton Freiburg (Switzerland)-based service provider Krummen Kerzers is steadily growing in the food logistics sector. The company has been providing storage, picking and transport services for Haribo confectionary since the...

25.02.2019

Spark Global Logistics joins Cargo Connections

Cargo Connections has welcomed Spark Global Logistics (SGL) Belgium as a new member. The network knows the SGL name well as its sister company is a valued network member in Australia. Robert Mrencevski is the company director in...