08.12.2021

More rail transports via Urumqi

Russian Railways Logistics (RZDL) wants to route more rail transports for Europe through the Chinese logistics platform in Urumqi in future. Only recently, the company handled two door-to-door transports to Hamburg and...
08.12.2021

New warehouse in Manchester

Triton Construction is currently building a new speculative manufacturing and distribution facility in Middleton, Manchester, for Patrick Properties. Stakehill 185 is to offer 17,000 sqm of warehouse space, over three floors. The...
08.12.2021

18 giraffes from South Africa to Brazil

Intradco Global and its parent company Chapman Freeborn have worked together on a charter flight to transport 18 giraffes from O.R. Tambo International Airport (JNB) to Río de Janeiro Galeão Airport (GIG). Averaging 4.3-5.7 m...
08.12.2021

Acciaierie d'Italia opts for huge portal cranes

Taranto-headquartered steel manufacturer Acciaierie d'Italia requires the strongest possible equipment to handle its bulky and heavy materials. The group recently inked a contract with Liebherr about four new LPS 800 portal...
08.12.2021

Changes in Unilever leadership executive

Chief legal officer & group secretary Ritva Sotamaa will retire from the company at the end of March 2022. She will be succeeded by Maria Varsellona, general counsel & company secretary for global technology company ABB....
08.12.2021

Branded loco for Klade Group

Austrian railfreight company Frachtbahn has leased a new locomotive from ELL Austria. It will handle timber transports for the Klade Group, primarily between Germany and Romania. The family-owned company moves about 1.5...
08.12.2021

"Curiosity of the Day"

In the prison on the island of Alcatraz, the inmates were allowed hot showers so that they would not get accustomed to cold water. It was feared that they might try to escape by swimming to the mainland. 

07.12.2021

Investing in overland transport in Spain

DB Schenker is taking over the entire share capital of Grupo Loserco, as well as of Transportes Santos Campos, two transport companies based in Andalusia and Valencia (Spain). The acquisitions include seven centres with more than...
07.12.2021

Win-win for German carrier and Swiss start-up

DB Cargo and Swiss start-up MFD Rail have formed a strategic partnership, signing a long-term lease agreement under which DB Cargo can lease up to 2,400 freight wagons of various types for intermodal railcars from the...
07.12.2021

North American purchase of rolling reefers

TFI International, which operates in the USA, Canada and Mexico, has acquired the trucking company D&D Sexton, based in Carthage MO (USA). D&D’s fleet of more than 120 tractors and 150 drivers specialising in refrigerated...
07.12.2021

Second Nature Brands names Mack Phillips

Second Nature Brands, a leading snacks company, has appointed Mack Phillips as its chief supply chain officer. In this role he’ll be in charge of all supply chain activities, including oversight of plant-level procurement,...
07.12.2021

Spanish ports on their way back

Spanish ports grouped in the ‘Puertos del Estado’ entity handled 442.2 million t of goods between January and October this year, 5.4% more than in the same period of 2020. The pre-pandemic level hasn’t yet been reached, however...
07.12.2021

Following the stars

Volga-Dnepr Airlines (VDA) organised delivery of what the oversized and superheavy project transport specialist called “the world's largest and most sophisticated commercial communications satellite.” It hauled the Inmarsat-6 F1...
07.12.2021

Inchcape opts for a digital logistics partner

Inchcape Shipping Services and Horizon Air Freight are taking the joint digital path. Customers of Inchcape’s last-mile spares logistics and door-to-deck delivery throughout the Americas can now use the Horizon World Track...
07.12.2021

ROM Cargo signs up Air One Aviation

ROM Cargo has appointed Air One Aviation as its exclusive global sales and services partner, after the company was awarded its air operator’s certificate by the Romanian civil aviation authority to begin international Boeing...
07.12.2021

Joachim Werner wins European safety award

Iveco engineer Joachim Werner has won this year’s European commercial vehicle safety award. Created in 1990, the prize is presented annually by the European Association for Accident Research and Analysis, the German vehicle...
07.12.2021

Special safety arrangements for street lamps

Gebrüder Weiss has transported 12,600 LED street lights and lamp posts to Mongolia on the New Silk Road rail route for the Zumtobel lighting group. The equipment is required for an infrastructure project commissioned by the...
07.12.2021

Two digital musketeers for Röhlig

The Bremen-based logistics company Röhlig, and the IT service provider G Beyond, have joined forces to found the companies Logineer and Cargonerds, to increase the portfolio of services for global air and sea freight forwarders....
07.12.2021

Sino-Finnish MoU for naval technology

The Finnish technology group Wärtsilä has inked an MoU with the China Classification Society and the Tianjin Port Group to co-develop China’s next-generation intelligent tugs, in line with CCS intelligent ship standards. The...
07.12.2021

Vertical take-off tests in Paris

The Pontoise airfield in the Île-de-France region around Paris will be home to a new test centre dedicated to sustainable urban air mobility. It was inaugurated by ‘Choose Paris Region’, the airport operator Groupe ADP and the...
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