Daniel Bean honoured 
Jax Chamber has elected Jaxport board secretary and retired US Navy Captain Daniel K. Bean (Photo) as the recipient of the 7th annual RDML Kevin F. Delaney Hall of Fame award in recognition for his significant contributions to the Jacksonville community as veteran. Bean... mehr
Partnering for e-commerce 
In Dubai Commer City, a warehouse zone dedicated as an e-commerce free zone, Hellmann has opened a multi-client warehouse. The planned investment to make the free zone a major hub for international e-commerce amounts to AED 3.2 billion (USD 900 million) on a surface covering... mehr
Ehrgeizige Pläne
Insbesonders jetzt – innerhalb der global anhaltenden Covit 19-Pandemie – nimmt der Transport und die Lagerhaltung von pharmazeutischen Artikeln einen wichtigen Platz innerhalb der Logistik-Aktivitäten ein. Die Türkei ist hier ein bedeutender Player. mehr
Moscow DME renews Isago certification
Moscow Domodedovo airport (DME) has successfully met the requirements of the Iata safety audit for ground operations programme (Isago), renewing its certificate. For the latest certification, the Isago team assessed Domodedovo in the following categories: organisation and... mehr
DB Cargo to invest in logistics for steel giant
DB Cargo has signed a ten-year contract with Arcelor Mittal, the world's largest steel company, to supply its blast furnace in Eisenhüttenstadt, Germany. By next summer, DB Cargo will purchase 352 multi-functional double wagons and 1,408 special containers to transport ore,... mehr
XPO promotes Patricia Sánchez
Global logistics solutions provider XPO Logistics has promoted Patricia Sánchez to the newly created position of customer service leader for the company’s business in Iberia and Morocco. Sánchez, who joined XPO in 2015 in the role of operational excellence manager and has... mehr
Inaction risks wave of bankruptcies
New research of the International Road Union (IRU) reveals the continuing catastrophic impact of Covid-19 on the commercial road transport industry, with a very high default and insolvency risk across the sector worldwide. Ranked on a risk scale from one to ten, all regions... mehr
Baltic Exchange's air freight indices take off
The Baltic Exchange, which already provides benchmark assessments for the maritime markets, has launched weekly air freight indices. As announced earlier this year, it has partnered with Hong Kong-based air cargo pricing publisher TAC Index, published since 2016, and the new... mehr
A French coup and a new split
The internationalisation of the Versmold (Germany)-headquartered Nagel-Group, which started about twenty years ago, is undergoing a reshuffle. Under the direction of group's new CEO Carsten Taucke, a part of the network is to be sold: the French provider of... mehr
Upward trend in hinterland traffic confirmed
Good news from the international association of ports and harbours WPSP Covid-19 task which has released its fourteenth report since April and the initial global outbreak of Covid-19, based on the data of 73 world ports. The most significant result of the survey is the... mehr