As part of its strategy to invest in the strongest airlines around the world, Qatar Airways completed an on-market purchase of certain A and H shares of China Southern Airlines on 28 December 2018. This investment results in...
The port of Bremen’s railway is to get a new modular IT system that will optimize train and wagon movement planning and scheduling. From autumn 2020, users will be able to use a customer portal to obtain information about...
The logistics group Redspher, which is owned by the on-demand transport provider Flash Europe International, generated a turnover of around EUR 300 million in 2018, thereby achieving the sales target it planned for 2020. The...
The board of commissioners of the port of New Orleans selected a new executive committee in late December 2018. Arnold B. Baker was elected chairman, Tara C. Hernandez as vice-chair and Darryl D. Berger as secretary-treasurer....
Rhenus Logistics has purchased 100% of the equity share capital of Italy-based Cesped and its related companies. Guido Restelli, MD of Rhenus Logistics in Italy and future member of Cesped’s management board, remarked: “This move...
After the sharp pick-up in airfreight growth during the inventory restocking period in 2017, air cargo traffic growth moderated in 2018. That coincided with the softening demand drivers impacted by trade tension and declining...
The container throughput index published by the German research body Rheinisch-Westfälisches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung (RWI - Leibniz) and the Institute of Shipping Economics and Logistics (ISL) came in at 133.7 points in...
Determined to prove his theory that yellow fever was transmitted by mosquito bites, the US medical pioneer Jesse Lazear allowed himself to be bitten by infected insects. His idea was correct – but it caused his death soon after...
As a part of its international expansion, the Hamburg-based service provider, Fr. Meyer’s Sohn (FMS), recently opened a new office in Santiago de Chile. The office is headed by Jose Antonio Robledo. The vertical focus will be on...
Only few days before Christmas and one year after Latam Cargo and Boeing signed a contract for the conversion of three B767-300ER (extended range) passenger aircraft to B767-300BCF (Boeing converted freighters), the Latin...
Bergé and Gefco have closed a joint venture deal to create a major finished-vehicle logistics provider in Spain. The JV - Bergé Gefco - will offer more than 3 million sqm of space for storing up to 120,000 vehicles, along with a...
The port authorities of Montreal and Trois-Rivières in Quebec province (Canada), recently ratified the first-ever cooperation agreement to improve and enhance their respective port services. Focused on sharing information...
The integrated shipping, logistics and marine services provider GAC is opening a warehouse and open yard in the Khalifa Industrial Zone Abu Dhabi (Kizad), the Middle East’s largest industrial zone and a subsidiary of Abu Dhabi...
Automobile manufacturer Rolls-Royce only uses leather from bulls for the seats of its vehicles, as cow hides could have stretch marks from pregnancies.
Just months before Brexit, Dubai-based Emirates Skycargo announced that it carried close to 10,000 t of Irish exports from Dublin in 2018. Each of the twice daily B777 flights between Dublin and Dubai offer up to 25 t of cargo...
The fashion retailer Zalando has contracted Kuehne + Nagel (K + N) to provide and manage an inbound distribution centre in Halle an der Saale (Germany). The 35,000 sqm facility will go into operation in autumn this year. As...
Netherlands-based Universal Africa Lines (UAL) is expanding into the Caribbean. Given the recent developments in the oil and gas industry in Trinidad, Guyana and Suriname, the company is witnessing an increased demand for direct...
The Novatrans subsidiary Greenmodal Transport and the port of Dunkirk are jointly launching a new multimodal offering. From this month, shuttle trains will haul maritime containers between the port on the North Sea coast of...
