Cargo Ai’s advisory board grows 
David Lara will join Cargo Ai’s advisory board, effective 1 September 2021, after having served as SVP global airfreight procurement & capacity management at Ceva Logistics for 20 years. Cargo Ai was launched by founder and CEO, Matthieu Petot in 2019 as a SaaS... mehr
Gradual recovery in Hamburg
Throughput in the Port of Hamburg picked up in H1/2021: at 63.5 million t, it grew by 3.8% compared to the same period last year, but is still 8.5% below the level of H1/2019 (69.4 million t). Container handling in H1/2021 amounted to 4.3 million teu, a growth rate of 5.5%. 4.7... mehr
Buss HGK Logistics augments management
David Penschek joined the management team of Buss HGK Logistics on 1 August 2021, replacing Wolfgang Nowak, who will concentrate on driving the expansion of the HKG Group’s short sea business in future. Penschek will retain his role as head of corporate development at HGK... mehr
Port of Brussels' comeback
The inland Port of Brussels has recovered quickly since the lifting of almost all sanitary restrictions. Freight traffic in the first half of the year rose by 11% to 3.65 million t of goods compared to the first six months of 2020 (3.28 million t in H1/2020). Building... mehr
Arranging UK aid flights to Haiti
Air Charter Service (ACS) chartered a Boeing B787-9 to transport 20 t of humanitarian aid donated by the British government for those affected by the devastating earthquake in Haiti. The charter, operated by IAG cargo, flew from London’s Heathrow last Tuesday, 24 August 2021, to... mehr
A new head for Scandinavia & Germany
International towage operator Svitzer has appointed Mathias Jonasson as cluster managing director for Scandinavia and Germany. He will assume his new position on 1 September 2021. Jonasson, who will report to Svitzer Europe’s managing director Lise Demant, joins Svitzer from... mehr
Empty containers: filling the gaps
Hamburg-based shipping company Hapag-Lloyd has ordered another 75,000 teu dry boxes. The containers will be manufactured in China and delivered to Hapag-Lloyd in the course of Q4/2021. Since the beginning of 2020, Hapag-Lloyd has ordered no less than 625,000 teu. The carrier... mehr
Port of Vienna puts trailers on trains
After one year of testing, the new rail service for the transport of non-craneable trainers between the port of Vienna (Austria) and Düsseldorf (Germany) has officially started with three round trips per week. The trains use Helrom's horizontal Swivel technology, which is... mehr
European operations under one management
The European road haulage team of the forwarder Europa Worldwide Group has appointed Rob Bartlett to the new position of head of European operations. Bartlett brings over 20 years of experience at Europa Road, one of the six divisions of the group. Europa Worldwide Group has... mehr
Reliability at a stable low, Sea-Intelligence says
Sea-Intelligence, a Copenhagen-based maritime intelligence provider, has updated its schedule reliability figures up to and including July 2021. The report covers the relevant data from 34 trade lanes and more than 60 carriers. While schedule reliability is not getting any... mehr