02.10.2023

Rail link to relieve Greater Cairo Area corridor

Egypt has approved a USD 400 million loan deal with the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD) for the Cairo-Alexandria trade logistics development project which will create a railway bypass along the...
02.10.2023

Daimler Truck parts from Saxony-Anhalt to the world

Mercedes-Benz Trucks officially celebrated the start of the construction of its new logistics hub, the "Daimler Truck Global Parts Centre", with the laying of the foundation stone last week. The company plans to put...
02.10.2023

Shippers face 29% inflation in 2023

According to Sea Intelligence, cost inflation in the shipping industry in 2023 remains high at 29% compared to pre-pandemic levels. Hapag-Lloyd's financial data serves as a market proxy for this assessment. Cost inflation...
02.10.2023

Saudia Cargo appoints managing director

Loay Mashabi will be joining Saudia Cargo as managing director on 8 October 2023. Formerly deputy minister for logistics services at the ministry for transport, Mashabi has an extensive background in the logistics sector. He...
02.10.2023

Turkish Cargo joins "Koalition" for Yani

Turkish Cargo has safely transported a koala from Hong Kong to the UK. Born in Australia and introduced to Ocean Park in 2015, Yani was left alone after the other koalas she lived with at the park passed away. Since she could...
02.10.2023

Operail Repairs certified

The Consumer Protection and Technical Regulatory Authority has decided to issue an extended ECM (entity in charge of maintenance) certificate to Operail Repairs. The Estonian rail company is now a certified European maintenance...
02.10.2023

A throughput to celebrate

Contecon Guayaquil (CGSA), an International Container Terminal Services, Inc. (ICTSI) subsidiary in Ecuador, is celebrating a throughput of 135 million t of cargo during its 16 years of operation at the Port of Guayaquil. This...
02.10.2023

Fraport extends CEO contract

On 15 September 2023, Fraport’s supervisory board extended Stefan Schulte’s mandate as CEO of Fraport for another three years. Schulte’s contract will therefore continue from 1 September 2024 to 31 August 2027. Schulte, a...
02.10.2023

A tandem for SAF

Swiss WorldCargo has announced an agreement with World Courier, a global specialty logistics provider and a part of Cencora (formerly Amerisource Bergen), which will support the use of sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) within the...
02.10.2023

Expanding healthcare and time-critical services

UPS has entered into an agreement to acquire MNX Global Logistics, a global time-critical logistics provider headquartered in Long Beach, CA. The transaction is expected to close by the end of the year, subject to customary...
02.10.2023

ANA to open new cargo building in October 2024

Narita International Airport Corporation ("NAA") announced plans to construct Cargo Building No. 8 to address the current dispersed cargo facilities at Narita Airport. ANA will lease Cargo Building No. 8 from NAA and...
02.10.2023

Shipnext receives grant for supply chain AI

Shipnext, an online cargo platform, has secured a substantial, multi-year grant from Flanders Innovation & Entrepreneurship (Vlaio) to advance the use of predictive analytics and AI in the supply chain. Shipnext will...
02.10.2023

Movianto: a big investment in anaesthetics

With an investment of several million euros, the pharmaceutical and healthcare logistics service provider Movianto in Neunkirchen, Saarland (Southwest Germany), has tripled its capacity for the storage and handling of narcotics...
02.10.2023

"Curiosity of the Day"

In May 1975, the Japanese mountaineer Junko Tabei (1939-2016) was the first woman to reach Mount Everest.

02.10.2023

Finnlines promotes Suvi Niemivuo

Suvi Niemivuo has been appointed as head of the company’s legal, insurance and claims department, effective 1 October 2023. She will also join the executive committee and report to Tom Pippingsköld, president and CEO of...
02.10.2023

Maersk responds to calls for greener haulage

In Brazil, Maersk has conducted two pilots with heavy-duty electric tractor units designed for the transport of containers (FCL). The two-week pilots were carried out with two different EV truck manufacturers on a 100 km span in...
02.10.2023

China driving EV business in South Africa

Electric vehicle (EV) manufacturer Shanghai Automotive Industrial Corporation (Saic) and a South African dealer has formed Maxus Electric Vehicles to sell Chinese-made commercial EVs to offer urban logistics fleets access to EVs....
29.09.2023

“5,000 active airfreight containers”

How a US forwarder came up trumps at Basel’s EuroAirport. AIT Worldwide has now left its pioneering phase behind it. After its launch by a trio at the EuroAirport in Basel in September 2021 the airfreight enterprise has now grown...
29.09.2023

Trimodal hub for the Seine axis on track

Haropa Port in France is setting up a terminal in Bruyères-sur-Oise, 40 km from Paris to strengthen rail, road and river services on the River Seine axis. Medlog, the logistics arm of MSC, won the call for the project and...
29.09.2023

Exploring automated solutions at BCN

The global ground handling agent Worldwide Flight Services (WFS) has commenced a proof-of-concept trial using autonomous guided vehicles (AGVs) in its cargo terminal at Barcelona airport (BCN), Spain. The tests of the Linde...
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