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...
13.05.2019

Azerbaijan and Russia join forces on Eurasian route

Russian Railways and Azerbaijan Railways have signed a memorandum of cooperation to develop a comprehensive cooperation in the railway sector. In particular, the partners will implement joint activities that will contribute...
13.05.2019

Hawaiian Airlines renews digitisation partnership

Hawaiian Airlines has renewed its five-year contract with SmartKargo, continuing the cloud-delivered real-time management of the carrier’s air cargo business using the end-to-end software as a service (SaaS) solution. Since...
13.05.2019

TRL CEO Rob Wallis steps down

After six years as CEO of TRL, the UK’s Transport Research Laboratory, and also CEO of its parent company, the Transport Research Foundation (TRF), Rob Wallis has informed the TRF Board of his wish to step down. Accordingly,...
13.05.2019

PSA and SATS set up sea-air connectivity in Singapore

The port operator PSA International and the ground handling provider SATS have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to provide cargo owners and logistics service providers with seamless connectivity for greater supply chain...
13.05.2019

Intermodal leads the way in HHLA's Q1/2019

Hamburger Hafen und Logistik (HHLA) reported satisfactory results in the first three months of the year. Improvements in container transport and property management led to a revenue of EUR 347.6 million (+10.3%). The...
13.05.2019

Football and logistics

The football club Borussia Dortmund (BVB) and the RAG-Stiftung, which oversees economic restructuring after the closing down of the coal mining industry, are now both part of startport. The subsidiary of Duisport, which runs the...
13.05.2019

Turkey: Railport to handle 105,000 teu in first phase

Industrial companies in Turkey are getting a new competitive mode of transport for long distances with the construction of the country’s first privately-run inland cargo terminal, or railport. The new project is being...
13.05.2019

Raben snaps up majority shareholding in Sittam

Netherlands-based Raben Group is increasing its stake in Sittam from 20% to 51% in July 2019. Through the share purchase the Dutch company will become the Italy-based forwarder general cargo transport provider’s majority...
13.05.2019

Result significantly up in the first quarter

The German shipping line Hapag-Lloyd closed Q1/2019 with a significantly higher operating profit, as earnings before interest and taxes (ebit) increased to EUR 214 million (compared to EUR 51 million in Q1/2018). The group’s net...
13.05.2019

China Airlines to introduce new freighter model

China Airlines (Taiwan) and Boeing (USA) have signed a memorandum of understanding for three firm and three option aircraft orders for B777 freighters. Before 2016, China Airlines introduced a total of ten B777-300ER...
13.05.2019

Paycargo picks Lionel van der Walt as CEO USA

Paycargo, which operates a patented online payment system in the global freight industry providing overnight settlement of invoices between shippers and carriers, has appointed Lionel van der Walt, a veteran of the air cargo...
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