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26.04.2022

Rotterdam also feeling the impact

It has been a difficult start of the year for Rotterdam, too. 113.6 million t of freight passed through the port in Q1/2022, 1.5% less than the 115.2 million t in Q1/2021. While the throughput of mineral oil products and iron ore...

26.04.2022

"Air taxi" for freight

Endecots Taxi Aéreo, which has been operating feeder flights in Ecuador for over 30 years, is planning to expand into the cargo business. An application for an operating licence was recently submitted to the national authorities....

26.04.2022

Shani Ben-David first woman to be elected captain

ZIM president & CEO, Eli Glickman officially appointed Shani Ben-David to the position of captain in a traditional ceremony held at the company's headquarters in Haifa. Ben-David is the first woman to reach the highest...

26.04.2022

More LNG for Yang Ming

Taiwan-based shipping company Yang Ming will equipped five new 15,000 teu container vessels with dual-fuel LNG power. In a press release, Yang Ming described LNG as a "mature low-carbon alternative" to regular fuel,...

26.04.2022

WFS lands four contracts in Spain

Worldwide Flight Services’ (WFS) has won new contracts for its full ground and cargo handling capabilities in Spain: the Hungarian cargo charter airline Fleet Air has commissioned WFS to provide cargo handling services in this...

26.04.2022

US short line rail road expands in Pennsylvania

Reading & Northern Railroad (R&N) has acquired a campus in Carbon County (Pennsylvania, USA) consisting of a complex of nine buildings and a number of heavy cranes systems that can lift equipment of varying weights. The...

26.04.2022

Bolloré opens warehouse in Abidjan

Bolloré Transport & Logistics Cote d’Ivoire is inaugurating a modern 9,000 sqm logistics base in the airport area of Abidjan, Ivory Coast to foster the import and export of goods by air. The new infrastructure will have...

26.04.2022

New TEX service to start next month

Hamburg-based carrier Hapag-Lloyd will launch the new regular service Turkey East Coast Express (TEX) in mid May 2022. The weekly service will call the three Turkish ports of Izmit, Aliaga and Mersin and connect them...

26.04.2022

Geodis strengthens its executive team in Germany

Geodis has appointed Johann Peter Reimer as its new air freight director and Björn Srocke as its new sales director in Germany. Reimer has 20 years of experience in logistics, both at home and abroad. After training as a...

26.04.2022

Natilus to build 3.8 t aircraft in San Diego

Natilus, a US company which produces the world’s first purposefully-designed and manufactured autonomous aircraft for air freight transport, is building new engineering and manufacturing facilities for its family of aircraft on...

26.04.2022

Coal transports reach a record high

Indian Railways (IR) has intensified its coal transports. During the year 2021-22, the state-owned railway augmented its coal shipments by a record 111 million t, thus loading a total of 653 million t of coal, 20.4 % more than...

26.04.2022

World trade in peril, says WTO

In mid- April, the WTO published its analysis on the implications of the war in Ukraine for global trade and development. The WTO secretariat's note, ‘The Crisis in Ukraine: Implications of the war for global trade and...

26.04.2022

"Curiosity of the Day"

95% of the happiness hormone serotonin is found in the gastrointestinal tract.

25.04.2022

Rolling in green

Madrileño city district of Villaverde becoming a last-mile hub.

25.04.2022

TXL augments intermodal transport services

TX Logistik (TXL) has introduced two round trips per week for the multimodal transport provider Samskip Multimodal in its train network between Duisburg in Germany and Katrineholm in Sweden. The train is around 700 m long, can...

25.04.2022

Elbe Flugzeugwerke picks Jordi Boto

Jordi Boto has been appointed CEO of Elbe Flugzeugwerke (EFW). He succeeds Andreas Sperl, who left the company after more than 15 years of growth. Boto’s previous position was COO, where he had been responsible for driving the...

25.04.2022

DP World moving up steadily

DP World saw its throughput rising in Q1/2022. The operator handled a total of 19.3 million teu worldwide, with gross container volumes increasing by 1.7% year-on-year on a reported basis and up 1.9% on a like-for-like basis....

25.04.2022

More roadside facilities for HGV drivers

HGV drivers in UK will benefit from GBP 20 million (EUR 23.9 million) to improve roadside facilities. The funding will go specifically towards improving security, showers and eating facilities as well as exploring plans to...

25.04.2022

New air/road service from China to Mexico

3PL Dimerco has launched a new product for customers shipping automotive components from Southern China to a common manufacturer in Mexico. The company said in a press release that fifteen manufacturers of the metal stamping and...

25.04.2022

Leaving Basel after almost ten years

AFG Aviation Ireland has sold a B747-8JA (serial number 40065) to Boeing. The wholly owned subsidiary of Aircraft Finance Germany ferried the aircraft on 15 April 2022 from Basel, Switzerland to Marana, Arizona, where it will...