06.05.2021

Pigs in airspace

As China has to import pigs due to losing half of its native population (i.e. approximately 30 % of the world's population) to African swine fever since 2018, 1,030 purebred breeding pigs flew approximately 11,000 km from London...
06.05.2021

American JAS invests in Hong Kong

JAS Worldwide, a global freight forwarding company headquartered in Atlanta, GA, and founded 1978 in Milan, Italy, has acquired Tigers Limited, a freight forwarding and supply chain management company based in Hong Kong. It...
06.05.2021

Pop-up terminal opens in California

US class I railways Union Pacific (UP) is opening a new intermodal terminal near the Ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach in an area that is central for the distribution of imports and industrial warehousing in Southern...
06.05.2021

Swiss Post secures M&A competence

Hannes Caj is changing fronts. After 13 years as a partner at Zetra International, a Swiss consulting firm for mergers & acquisitions, real estate transactions, restructuring and debt advisory, the Austrian-born Hannes Caj...
06.05.2021

Rhine ports steady the ship

The first quarter of this year went rather well for the Port of Switzerland, the operator of the Swiss inland ports on the River Rhine. The port authority’s three hubs handled 1.26 million t of goods in Q1/2021, 2.9% less...
06.05.2021

New CEO at Istanbul's ISG airport

Malaysia Airports has appointed Berk Albayrak as new CEO to pilot Istanbul Sabiha Gokcen International Airport (ISG), Turkey’s second largest airport. He succeeds Ersel Goral, who resigned effective 27 April 2021, after having...
06.05.2021

Securing dry ice supplies in the desert

Etihad Cargo, the cargo and logistics arm of the Abu Dhabi-based Etihad Aviation Group, has strengthened its ability to transport Covid-19 vaccines around the world after receiving UAE General Civil Aviation Authority (GCAA)...
06.05.2021

Made.com makes more in London

Made.com, a digital lifestyle brand in home furniture, plans to expand its facility at London Gateway’s Logistics Park. The company will more than double its available space by opening an additional 160,000 sqm warehouse. The...
06.05.2021

Smart mobility to improve traffic efficiency

Together with the Hong Kong applied science and technology research institute and telecommunications provider HKT, Scania has joined a trial to use 5G vehicle communications system on a 14 km public road in the city. It is one of...
06.05.2021

A ship management takeover

Columbia Shipmanagement (CSM) and Seatrans have set up a joint venture, called Stödig Ship Management. CSM said that the strategic partnership with the Norwegian shipowner and operator, which specialises in services for chemical...
06.05.2021

Togo's new road transport association

The International Road Union (IRU) continues its efforts to formalise and professionalise Togo's road transport industry. With the backing of the World Bank, it has been supporting an in-depth reform of road transport in Togo,...
06.05.2021

Takeover in Switzerland

Germany-based Noerpel Group is acquiring the Swiss company Logistik 2000. With the new location in Diepoldsau directly on the Austrian border, the buyer is thus gaining its second branch in Switzerland. Founded in 1999,...
06.05.2021

UPS relocates

UPS opened new parcel and distribution centre in Bülach near Zurich at the end of March this year. It replaces the company's previous centre in Rümlang, which had been operating for 25 years. The new hub is located not far from...
06.05.2021

"Curiosity of the Day"

Platypuses are born with teeth and lose them when they grow up.

06.05.2021

Galoni becomes Thordon Bearings' CEO

Anna Galoni has been named as the new CEO of bearing and seal specialist Thordon Bearings, a Canadian Thomson-Gordon Group company. She succeeds Terry McGowan, who has retired after almost 14 years in the CEO role. Galoni...
06.05.2021

Port of Douala gearing up for growth

Cameroon’s Régie du Terminal à Conteneurs (RTC) has ordered two Konecranes Gottwald harbour cranes. RTC expects the volume of cargo passing through the port of Douala to continue to rise, which is why it needs extra capacity in...
06.05.2021

Eight pallets of relief supplies to Aral Sea

Uzbekistan Airways and Boeing recently delivered eight pallets of humanitarian relief supplies donated by Project CURE to the Aral Sea region of the Central Asian country on board the airline’s newest B787-8 Dreamliner. The...
05.05.2021

Optimisation à la française

The French market isn’t virgin terrain for 4flow, an international software firm and consultancy that also offers 4PL services. In an interview conducted digitally Julian Schulcz and Antoine Clogne told Christian Doepgen about...
05.05.2021

Barking to receive new customs facility

DB Cargo UK has successfully bid for funding to create a new ‘customs approval area’ at its intermodal terminal at Barking in London. Work will begin shortly to build a new inland border control facility at the site to speed up...
05.05.2021

Less cargo theft in Mexico

Intelligence company Sensitech recently published its annual cargo theft report for Mexico in 2020. In total, cargo theft in 2020 decreased by 9% in comparison to 2019, but its risk level remains severe. On a regional basis, the...
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