«Ich bleibe positiv» 
...bekräftigt Massimo Roccasecca, und meint damit nicht etwa einen Test auf Covid-19. Gegenüber dem ITJ spricht der Frachtchef des nordostitalienischen Flughafensystems der Save Group über die aktuelle Situation, insbesondere an dem auf Luftfracht spezialisierten Flughafen... mehr
Booming trans-Tasman airfreight system 
DHL Express has launched a new direct freighter service connecting Melbourne, Auckland and Christchurch, five nights a week, providing a further 19 t of freight capacity for the trade flows between both countries. New Zealand is Australia's third largest major export... mehr
Swiss carrier to be climate neutral by 2030
SBB Cargo has been expanding its intermodal portfolio since 2012. In 2019, the Swiss railfreight company carried 118,831 containers and semi trailers with a total of 98,743 wagons on its intermodal network. This corresponds to a payload of around 1.5 million net tonnes. With... mehr
From enemies to partners
EL AL Israel Airlines and Etihad Airways, the national airlines of Israel and the UAE respectively, are ready to explore deeper cooperation following the signing of a virtual memorandum of understanding. The wide-ranging MoU, which was signed "virtually" by Tony... mehr
Cargo-Partner becomes cargowise
Austria-headquartered transport and info logistics provider cargo-partner is planning a worldwide introduction of the cloud-based logistics application Cargo Wise in its entire network across 40 countries. The software enables logistics services providers to carry out... mehr
16 trains on the Alps route
Starting off this November, Cargo Beamer has increased the frequency on its route between Kaldenkirchen in Germany and Domodossola in Italy. A total of four new intermodal trains, two each for Germany and Italy, were added to the schedule. The trains depart from... mehr
Curiosity of the Day
The US town of Aberdeen WA paid tribute to one of its most famous sons, Kurt Cobain of the band Nirvana, by adding the message ‘Come as You Are’ (a Nirvana song) to its welcome sign. mehr
Container index climax
The container throughput index of the German RWI – Leibniz institute for economic research and the institute of shipping economics and logistics (ISL) showed a robust improvement in October, rising from (corrected) 119.6 to 122.6 points, an all-time high. The leap forward was... mehr
Former Tiaca chairman becomes Kales CEO
Dirk Hazenoot, who decided to step down after having worked for almost 20 years for the Amsterdam-based GSSA Kales Group, the last two years as CEO, will be succeeded by a well-known face in the airfreight industry. Sebastiaan Scholte (right, speaking with ITJ's Andreas Haug... mehr
Trilatec featured by Solar Impulse Foundation
The list of 1,000 innovative ideas that prove that sustainable solutions can also be economically attractive, set up by solar flight pioneer Bertrand Piccard’s Solar Impulse Foundation, now includes the name "squAIR-timber". Developed by the German company... mehr