Inland Port Greer soon to handle 300,000 rail units? 
South Carolina Ports has commissioned Hamburg Port Consulting (HPC) to assess options for expanding the capacities of the Inland Port Greer, one of its intermodal rail terminals in USA. HPC already provided a development plan for the facility some years before. In an update,... mehr
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Neue Projekte für unbemannte Luftfracht aus aller Welt.[Translate to Deutsch:] Projects for manned air cargo from all over the world. mehr
Increasing rail efficiency by 25%
The Container Port of Long Beach in Los Angeles (USA) has completed a USD 34.7 million rail project that will increase efficiency of goods movement and reduce congestion on local road networks by shifting more cargo to trains. The new constructed double track access adds a... mehr
DHL can't help the trend
Deutsche Post DHL Group remained on the growth path in Q1/2022. Revenues went up by 19.8% to EUR 22.6 billion, while operating profit (ebit) amounted to EUR 2.2 billion (Q1/2021: EUR 1.9 billion). At 9.6%, the ebit margin was at a comparable level with the previous year... mehr
Otto International chooses Heidi Stevens
Heidi Stevens will take over as CEO of Otto International, a global procurement and services company, on 15 May 2022. She follows Michael Dumke, who will retire on 30 June 2022. A London College of Fashion graduate, Stevens has an extensive career and track record in the... mehr
Fifth A330 for AELF Flightservice
AELF Flightservice’s fifth Airbus 330-200 (registered as 9H-CFS) is officially on certificate, flying in passenger-to-freighter (PTF) configuration. The aircraft started its first commercial flight in PTF configuration on 23 April 2022, flying from Vietnam to USA. With the... mehr
Making dangerous goods transport safer
The international freight transport insurer TT Club is calling for more security and safety in lithium battery supply chains. This statement follows a number of recent fire incidents affecting container transport, ro-ro ships and air cargo movements allegedly involving lithium... mehr
ATSG chooses Safran’s brakes
Air Transport Services Group (ATSG), the world’s largest lessor of freighter aircraft and provider of air cargo transportation services based in Wilmington, Ohio (USA), has selected Safran Landing Systems for the retrofit of more than thirty Boeing 767 freighters operated by the... mehr
"Evaporated" cognac, rerouted honeybees
In the US District Court in Pasadena, American Airlines is being sued by Bacardi USA over the mysterious disappearance of six of 24 pallets containing 1,680 cases of cognac flown on 20 September 2021 from Paris to Los Angeles. According to Bacardi, the missing alcohol was worth... mehr
World trade in March: the calm before the storm?
The container throughput index published by the RWI Leibniz Institute for Economic Research and the Institute of Shipping Economics and Logistics (ISL) went up in 2022, rising by 1.6 points to 119.2 points (seasonally adjusted), according to the latest flash estimate.... mehr