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01.09.2021

Mail on passenger seats already 60 years ago

The fact that letters and parcels are regularly placed on aircraft passenger seats is not a novelty caused by the corona crisis. Sixty years ago today, on the night of 1 to 2 September 1961, Lufthansa launched its overnight...

01.09.2021

Green fleet keeps growing

Hoyer is gradually adding more and more LGN tractor units and CNG trucks to its fleet. The latest addition was a CNG truck in the middle of August to be used for short distance transports in the greater Hamburg area. The...

01.09.2021

"Curiosity of the Day"

Falling raindrops have the shape of a ball or a hamburger, not a drop.

01.09.2021

Funding for new terminal at Trois-Rivières

In the Canadian Port of Trois-Rivières, the Terminal 21 construction project has taken the next step with the confirmation of public funding of CAD 22.5 million from the Ministère des Transports du Québec under the Advantage St....

01.09.2021

Leinauer joins Haeco Group

Klaus-Peter Leinauer has joined Haeco Group as VP of group commercial for Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA). Based in Germany and reporting to the group’s Hong Kong-based CCO, he will oversee the aviation product and service...

01.09.2021

Tapa Emea now self-sustainable

The Transported Asset Protection Association (Tapa) Emea bids farewell to its admin partner, LBA International Consultancy, after 13 years of service. Since LBA’s executive chairman Laurence Brown stepped down from his role...

31.08.2021

Timber exports shifted from road to rail

A new rail shuttle has just been launched to transport Swedish timber products from Malungsfors in Dalarna via the Port of Gothenburg (both in Sweden) to Asia. The driving force behind the newly established rail shuttle is the...

31.08.2021

Rail hub for Novorossiysk

Maersk has opened its first Russian inland container depot (ICD) in Novorossiysk. The hub adds needed storage/cross-dock capacity to relieve strained supply chains. Novorossiysk is the largest port on the Black Sea and one of...

31.08.2021

Pre-contract for new cargo centre at NUE

Airport managing director Michael Hupe has just inked the preliminary contract for a third cargo centre at Nuremberg Airport (NUE) with Soheyl Rahmani, managing director of CHI NUE Cargo Handling, as the future anchor tenant....

31.08.2021

Swiss Brewery buys electric vehicles

Renault Trucks and Feldschlösschen, a Swiss brewery belonging to the Carlsberg Group, have made a tangible commitment to carbon neutral mobility: the truck manufacturer has handed over the keys to 20 electric vehicles....

31.08.2021

Cargo Ai’s advisory board grows

David Lara will join Cargo Ai’s advisory board, effective 1 September 2021, after having served as SVP global airfreight procurement & capacity management at Ceva Logistics for 20 years. Cargo Ai was launched by founder...

31.08.2021

Gradual recovery in Hamburg

Throughput in the Port of Hamburg picked up in H1/2021: at 63.5 million t, it grew by 3.8% compared to the same period last year, but is still 8.5% below the level of H1/2019 (69.4 million t). Container handling in H1/2021...

31.08.2021

Kerry Logistics in wonderland

In its interim results for the first six months of 2021, Hong Kong-based Kerry Logistics reports group revenues of HKD 36.7 billion (USD 4.71 billion), a surge of 68% compared to the HKD 21.9 billion in H1/2020 (USD 2.81...

31.08.2021

Buss HGK Logistics augments management

David Penschek joined the management team of Buss HGK Logistics on 1 August 2021, replacing Wolfgang Nowak, who will concentrate on driving the expansion of the HKG Group’s short sea business in future. Penschek will retain...

31.08.2021

SIA Cargo adopts Envirotainer's "Releye"

Singapore Airlines (SIA) has approved Envirotainer's temperature-controlled "Releye" RLP container for use on board its freighter and passenger aircraft. These containers, which are powered by rechargeable batteries...

31.08.2021

Californian haulier receives e-trucks

Battery-electric CV specialist Peterbilt Motors has delivered ten Model 579EVs to Shippers Transport Express for immediate use as part of its drayage operations at the Port of Oakland, USA. Five additional Model 579EVs are...

31.08.2021

Port of Brussels' comeback

The inland Port of Brussels has recovered quickly since the lifting of almost all sanitary restrictions. Freight traffic in the first half of the year rose by 11% to 3.65 million t of goods compared to the first six months of...

31.08.2021

India: major logistics player on the rise

In India, CEP giant Delhivery has acquired Bengaluru-based Spoton Logistics. It is said that the company is enlarging its footprint in order launch an initial public offering (IPO) in due course. Although financial terms were not...

31.08.2021

"Curiosity of the Day"

Ladybirds taste bitter.

31.08.2021

Arranging UK aid flights to Haiti

Air Charter Service (ACS) chartered a Boeing B787-9 to transport 20 t of humanitarian aid donated by the British government for those affected by the devastating earthquake in Haiti. The charter, operated by IAG cargo, flew from...