16.01.2019

Taking next blockchain technology step

The pilot blockchain project that the carrier Zim ran over the last year is now entering its next phase. The blockchain technology-based paperless bills-of-lading platform has been tested for trade activities on multiple shipping...
16.01.2019

ALC appoints Kirk Coningham as CEO

The Australian Logistics Council (ALC) has appointed Kirk Coningham as its new permanent CEO. He commences his responsibilities at the ALC Secretariat in Canberra. Coningham was the national executive director of the Urban...
16.01.2019

US railway provides solid help to industry

Norfolk Southern (NS) generated more than 60,000 carloads of new rail traffic in 2018 that helped 90 industries locate or expand business operations along the company’s rail lines in the USA. The 72 new and 18 expanded...
16.01.2019

The latest from Zürcher Kies und Transport

The family-owned company, Zürcher Kies und Transport, is a prominent player in Switzerland’s heavylift and special transport industry. Although the company became part of the Eberhard construction group at the beginning of...
16.01.2019

First Middle East carrier awarded Iata CEIV Pharma certification

Etihad Cargo has set a benchmark in the region by becoming the Middle East’s first carrier to be awarded Iata’s Centre of Excellence for Independent Validators (CEIV) certification in Pharmaceutical Logistics. Together with...
16.01.2019

More about scrubbers and sulphur

The Clean Shipping Alliance 2020 (CSA 2020), a group comprised of around 30 companies in the commercial shipping and cruise industries formed in late 2018, has contracted Maritime AMC (Mamcl) to provide secretariat services for...
16.01.2019

Mosolf expanding advisory board

The Mosolf Group is augmenting its advisory board with Detthold Aden, former CEO of BLG Logistics Group. Mosolf’s CEO Jörg Mosolf remarked: "With Aden, my company gains an outstanding managerial personality and an impulse...
16.01.2019

Denmark eases pocket wagon ban

The Danish Transport, Building and Housing Authority has allowed Luxembourg-based CFL and TX Logistik (Germany) to resume the use of pocket wagons to transport semi-trailers on the country’s rail network, with immediate effect....
16.01.2019

Agility opens new hub in Bahrain

Agility has opened a 28'500 sqm facility with 17,000 pallet slots in Hidd (Bahrain) to expand its warehousing, freight, transport and specialty capabilities and serve as a regional logistics and distribution hub. Costing USD...
16.01.2019

Emirates adds freighter destination in Latin America

From today (16 January 2019), Emirates Skycargo is serving the Colombian capital Bogota once per week with a B777F that offers an overall cargo capacity of over 100 t. Bogota becomes the carrier's sixth cargo destination in South...
16.01.2019

Clarkson paints sceptical picture of shipping in 2019

Research undertaken by London-headquartered Clarkson revealed that the growth rate of the demand for world maritime transport rose by 2.7% to 11.9 billion t in 2018, compared to 4.2% in 2017. The ton per mile (tpm) growth,...
16.01.2019

Rune Dybedal to chair NSOCC

North P&I Club’s Rune Dybedal has been appointed chairman of the North Sea Operators' Claims Conference (NSOCC). Dybedal, a Norwegian qualified attorney, has worked as an attorney and senior claims executive at North for 19...
16.01.2019

Port of Hamburg gets direct link to Singen terminal

Eurogate Intermodal (EGIM) has introduced a new direct rail connection between the port of Hamburg and the Singen terminal in Baden-Württemberg. The terminal is a road/rail cargo hub serving southern Germany with a focus on the...
16.01.2019

“Curiosity of the Day”

There are some 20 million songs on Spotify, but 4 million of them have not been streamed yet.
16.01.2019

Eiltrans to augment Night Star Express network

The joint venture Night Star Express Hellmann & Honold is to buy the overnight express business of the German company Eiltrans Nachtverteilerservice. Norbert Rödel, the owner of Eiltrans, is retiring after the sale. Night...
15.01.2019

ITF against cartels

The International Transport Forum has published a report in which it presents its arguments against extending the EU’s cartel law exemption for shipping alliances.
15.01.2019

Grain and metals drive up rail transport volumes

On Russian Railways’ owned network, 1.29 billion t of freight were transported in 2018, 2.2% more than in 2017. Grain volumes rose sharply by 22.6% to 27.1 million t, ferrous metal jumped by 7% to 78.1 million t, and iron and...
15.01.2019

Slower growth in China’s railway market

Although China’s railway technology market will remain at a high level over the next five years, it will only grow by 0.6% per annum. Following high, heavily subsidised investments in new rail vehicles in 2018 and 2020, the OEM...
15.01.2019

John Pearson joins DHL corporate board

The new CEO of DHL Express, John Pearson, is expecting continued positive developments for the global express market and the company, thanks to booming cross-border e-commerce and digitalisation. A board member since 1...
15.01.2019

Triest's 300th anniversary to spread over 2019

Trieste was granted free port status by the German Emperor Charles VI on 18 March 1719. In the following three centuries, the Italian port played a fundamental role in trade relations between the Old World and the Orient. The...
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