04.06.2021

"Curiosity of the Day"

Biologically, fungi are more closely related to animals than to plants.

04.06.2021

Nairobi number 1 of African cargo airports

In its "Air Transport Report 2020", the African Airlines Association (Afraa) also highlighted the evolution of the cargo business. The lockdowns and travel bans affected belly cargo volumes, which also declined because...
04.06.2021

Nordic barge service now in operation

Sweden’s first container barge shuttle service on inland waterways between Stockholm Norvik Port and the Port of Västerås set sail in June. The services are operated by German shipping company Deymann. On this EU class inland...
03.06.2021

Fifth Gulf state introduces TIR

Transport is becoming more efficient in the Middle East, now that the TIR system is going live in Qatar. TIR will help speed up supply chains in Qatar, which is set to host a series of major international events in the coming...
03.06.2021

China Southern Air Cargo expects OL

Guangzhou-based China Southern Air Cargo is set to be granted an operator's licence (OL) by the Civil Aviation Administration of China (CAAC) almost six months after it applied. The regulator said it had now completed its...
03.06.2021

Long trains in operation

In UK, DP World’s two deep-water ports at Southampton and London Gateway have become the first in the country capable of handling Freightliner’s new 775 m intermodal container trains. The longest in use on the national rail...
03.06.2021

Contargo wins tender in Weil

Contargo, founded in 2004, has been awarded the contract for handling operations at the container terminal of the Rhine port of Weil am Rhein (Rheinhafengesellschaft Weil am Rhein), near Basel (Switzerland) at the end of a...
03.06.2021

High freight rates inflate prices

Copenhagen-based maritime consultancy Sea-Intelligence recently analysed the impact of the elevated freight rates on importers for a variety of consumer goods, especially on the Asia to US West Coast and North Europe trade lanes....
03.06.2021

New director for pharma competence centre

Global logistics provider Agility has appointed Theresa Deeken as director of its pharma competence centre (PCC) in Switzerland. She brings more than twelve years’ experience in the logistics and freight forwarding industry with...
03.06.2021

More logistics at Llubljana's airport

Cargo-partner is expanding its warehouse capacities in Brnik near Slovenia's Ljubljana Airport. Now that the warehouse opened in 2019 has reached its full capacity, this expansion, which was originally planned between 2024 and...
03.06.2021

Fourth CLG aircraft at Leipzig airport

Cargologic Germany (CLG), a German cargo airline based at Leipzig/Halle Airport (LEJ), received its fourth aircraft last week. The B737-400F, which was transferred from Canada, has been checked by the German federal aviation...
03.06.2021

Dutch hauliers purchase fuel cell trucks

CV supplier Hyzon Motors has entered into definitive purchase agreements with Duurzaam Transport (subsidiary of Jan Bakker), and H2 Transport (a subsidiary of Millenaar & van Schaik) to supply a total of up to 20 hydrogen...
03.06.2021

Kolter takes leadership in Emden

Christoph Kolter officially took over the helm at Emden’s port office, Germany on 1 June 2021. He succeeds Frank Herbig, who retires after having served the ports in Lower Saxony for 29 years. Until autumn 2020, Kolter was deputy...
03.06.2021

Cargo Sous Terrain rolls on

The Council of States, the second chamber of the Swiss Parliament, has unanimously approved the federal underground freight transport act, which gives the Cargo sous terrain (CST) underground transport system the legal basis to...
03.06.2021

"Curiosity of the Day"

In the lottery, 1, 9 and 19 are the most frequently chosen numbers, because many people pick their year of birth.
03.06.2021

Symphony Group with a new site

A new 101,500 sqm production warehouse is to be developed by GMI Construction in UK. The building is for the Symphony Group, a British manufacturer of fitted kitchens and bedroom and bathroom furniture. The facility is coming up...
03.06.2021

Italian islands get closer to mainland

Naples-based Grimaldi Group has launched a new Naples-Cagliari-Palermo ro-pax after winning the relative tender of the Italian ministry of sustainable infrastructures and mobility for long-distance land-based services of...
03.06.2021

Aapa strengthens government relations

The American Association of Port Authorities (Aapa) has announced the promotion of Aapa government relations staffer, Derek Miller (photo), who already joined in September 2020, to the position of government relations manager,...
03.06.2021

MSC block trains: full speed ahead

MSC reports that its recently-launched Asia-to-Europe ocean and rail solution has been well received by its customers (see ITJ Daily from 24 April 2021). Introduced in mid-May, the first shipment of MSC containers was moved via ...
02.06.2021

Creating local services

Many a medium-sized forwarder suffered a substantial decline in 2020. Dachser ­Switzerland, however, managed to keep its sales figure at last year’s level. It believes in ­opportunities in the Suisse Romande – also on account of...
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