30.04.2020

New interim president for the Port of Santos

Brazil's ministry of infrastructure has replaced the president of the Santos Port Authority (SPA). The former president Casemiro Tércio Carvalho resigned last week. No reasons were disclosed. As interim president, Fernando...
30.04.2020

Kerry Logistics expands coffee business into Taiwan

Kerry Logistics has announced the expansion of its coffee trading business into Taiwan, as the sole distributor of Italian coffee group illycaffè's complete product range in Taiwan. Kerry Coffee was established in 2019 for...
30.04.2020

"Curiosity of the Day"

When AOL was giving away internet via CDs in the mail, spending some USD 300 million to manufacture and mail them during its peak in the 1990s, the early online giant was producing 50% of all the world's CDs.
29.04.2020

Recovery after the storm

This pandemic too, with its massive impact on northern Italy, will come to an end at some point. Maurizio Briglia is currently busy negotiating solutions with carriers, to prevent congestion in ports. The managing director of...
29.04.2020

Adopt mobility package 1 now!

Sixteen road haulage associations across Europe urgently call for the finalisation of the legislative procedure on the mobility package 1. After three years of legislative work, the package awaits final approval in the European...
29.04.2020

DB Schenker charters PVG shuttle service

After combining efforts through three flights carrying medical equipment from China to Iceland, Icelandair Group and DB Schenker have signed an agreement regarding 45 cargo flights between Shanghai PVG and Munich. Three...
29.04.2020

Austrian carrier expands railfreight services to China

The Rail Cargo Group (RCG), the railfreight arm of the Austrian ÖBB, is augmenting its rail transport offer to and from China as part of its TransFer service. The first of these new trains started in Jinan in eastern China...
29.04.2020

Global idle fleet crosses threshold of 3 million teu

The pandemic forces all carriers to idle segments of their operated tonnage, now amounting to 3 million teu, according to the latest figures of Alphaliner. The maritime intelligence provider said that this number surpasses the...
29.04.2020

Higher revenue despite corona pandemic

Notwithstanding the corona pandemic and the costs of the company's restructuring programme, the Swedish rail carrier Green Cargo was able to raise the operating result in Q1/2020 by SEK 14 million (EUR 1.3 million) to SEK -70...
29.04.2020

Sebastian Mikosz to join Iata

Sebastian Mikosz will join the international air transport association (Iata) as senior vice president for member and external relations, effective 1 June 2020. Most recently, Mikosz was group managing director and CEO of Kenya...
29.04.2020

Tiaca: "Africa must act - now!"

The international air cargo association has raised its concern on the air cargo sector in Africa, which has experienced a drop in capacity to Europe by 70% compared to 2019 according to Clive Data Services. Sanjeev Gadhia,...
29.04.2020

Successor appointed to lead DB Cargo UK

DB Cargo UK’s current CFO Andrea Rossi will become the company’s new CEO from 1 September 2020. DB Cargo AG, the railfreight company’s European parent company, announced its decision after concluding a lengthy process to appoint...
29.04.2020

Beneficiaries of the crisis?

The French association of overseas companies, Fedom (Fédération des Entreprises des Outre-Mer), is concerned about capacity bottlenecks between mainland France and the territories overseas. In a letter that was sent to the...
29.04.2020

Port of Switzerland's versatile Q1/2020

The Swiss Rhine ports posted a turnover of 1.2 million t in the first three months of this year, more than 20% lower than in the first quarter of 2019. Q1/2019 was particularly successful, owing to catch-up effects after a period...
29.04.2020

More green trucks for Globaltruck

In 2019, Russian FTL-trucking company Globaltruck’s revenue grew by 16.4% to RUB 9.5 billion (EUR 0.117 billion) compared to 2018. The group's net income in 2019 made up RUB 260.4 million (EUR 3.2 million), which is 60.4% less...
29.04.2020

Paycargo offers transactions in CAD

Paycargo has launched a dedicated CAD online freight payment platform in Canada. Payers now have the flexibility to pay in either Canadian or US dollars for the first time. The Canada launch, part of ongoing growth and...
29.04.2020

Smaller US airports continue to rise

Chicago Rockford airport (RFD) handled more than 283,000 t of cargo in Q1/20 - the most that the world's cargo airport with the highest rate increase in 2019 has ever processed during three months and 30% more than...
29.04.2020

Aid for UK cargo capacity on ferry routes

To keep cargo flows around the isles flowing, the British government has introduced a support package throughout the pandemic. The means employed for those routes considered to be "essential freight services" amount to...
29.04.2020

Start-up cooperates with ebay

The Munich (Germany)-based start-up Charry has joined forces with the online market platform ebay to offer Munich's retail industry simple access to online trade. With this cooperation retailers benefit from favourable conditions...
29.04.2020

DSV supports production of 3D printed visors

A suite of 3D printers originally destined for Cardiff University’s PARC Institute have been repurposed and relocated to manufacture visors for NHS Wales in the fight against Covid-19. Due to the temporary closure of the...
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