Digital partnership for Right Ship 

London-based maritime due diligence and risk management company Right Ship and digital shipping platform Sea/ are joining forces. It is the first data partnership of its kind for Right Ship. Sea/trade will integrate its new partner’s services like safety score, GHG Rating... mehr
Smooth AGM for Spedlogswiss Romandie 

Thierry Moreno, the president of Spedlogswiss Romandie, the association of forwarders and logisticians in the French-speaking part of Switzerland, welcomed the 50 or so members and around a dozen invited guests (including two representatives of the ITJ) to the body’s annual... mehr
Geodis adds air route between Europe and Asia 

Geodis is extending its "AirDirect" service by adding a twice weekly flight routed London Stansted (STN)/Amsterdam (AMS)/ Hong Kong (HKG)/STN/AMS. The global transport and logistics provider will in part use its new A330-300 full freighter aircraft to operate this... mehr
30% more capacity on Mediterranean route 

Kombiverkehr has expanded portfolio on the Mediterranean routes serving Spain by adding a fourth round trip per week and direction on the route between Ludwigshafen (Germany) and Barcelona Morrot (Spain). Alongside tank containers, the newly created capacities should... mehr
Driving a 'smart platform' along the Rhine 

To drive the digitalisation of cargo flows on the Rhine, Port of Switzerland and Ports de Mulhouse-Rhin (CCI Grand Est), as shareholders of Rhein Ports, have inked an agreement in principle on a partnership with Duisburger Hafen (Duisport). With this commitment, Duisport... mehr
(Too) much time spent in ports 

Copenhagen-based maritime intelligence provider Sea-Intelligence used recent data published by the United Nations Conference on Trade and development (Unctad) on port stays of vessels to gain more information about current bottlenecks in the container shipping industry.... mehr
Drones could save lives 

5,000–10,000 people in Finland die from out-of-hospital cardiac arrests every year. Drones equipped with automated external defibrillators (AEDs) to the scene of emergency situations could save lives. A trial run is now underway in Helsinki to test the delivery of an AED.... mehr
Pat Dobie and George Efkolodis join IAG Cargo 

IAG Cargo, the cargo division of International Airlines Group has chosen Pat Dobie and George Efkolodis to power up its customer experience team. Dobie, previously chief transformation officer, will be chief customer and infrastructure officer. She has been with IAG Cargo since... mehr
First flight to Libya seven years later 

Medavia - Mediterranean Aviation from Malta, a joint venture of the Spanish airline Air Nostrum and the Libyan Arab Foreign Investment Company, is the first European Union airline to resume scheduled flights to and from Libya. A B737-300 chartered by Greece's Lumiwings, with... mehr
Guido Meyer elected CFO/COO of eFrexx 

Düsseldorf (Germany)-based logistics platform eFrexx has appointed Guido Meyer as its new CFO/COO. In addition to assuming responsibility for finances, Meyer will also drive the software company's internationalisation strategy. eFrexx founder Achim Quaken remains CEO. Meyer,... mehr