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Funding for new terminal at Trois-Rivières 
In the Canadian Port of Trois-Rivières, the Terminal 21 construction project has taken the next step with the confirmation of public funding of CAD 22.5 million from the Ministère des Transports du Québec under the Advantage St. Lawrence programme. Chantal Rouleau, minister... more
Leinauer joins Haeco Group
Klaus-Peter Leinauer has joined Haeco Group as VP of group commercial for Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA). Based in Germany and reporting to the group’s Hong Kong-based CCO, he will oversee the aviation product and service provider's efforts in strengthening commercial... more
Tapa Emea now self-sustainable
The Transported Asset Protection Association (Tapa) Emea bids farewell to its admin partner, LBA International Consultancy, after 13 years of service. Since LBA’s executive chairman Laurence Brown stepped down from his role as its executive director last December, Tapa Emea... more
Timber exports shifted from road to rail
A new rail shuttle has just been launched to transport Swedish timber products from Malungsfors in Dalarna via the Port of Gothenburg (both in Sweden) to Asia. The driving force behind the newly established rail shuttle is the Fiskarheden sawmill in cooperation with forwarder... more
Rail hub for Novorossiysk
Maersk has opened its first Russian inland container depot (ICD) in Novorossiysk. The hub adds needed storage/cross-dock capacity to relieve strained supply chains. Novorossiysk is the largest port on the Black Sea and one of Russia’s biggest export hubs and gateways,... more
Pre-contract for new cargo centre at NUE
Airport managing director Michael Hupe has just inked the preliminary contract for a third cargo centre at Nuremberg Airport (NUE) with Soheyl Rahmani, managing director of CHI NUE Cargo Handling, as the future anchor tenant. The cargo area may be expanded by demolishing the... more
Swiss Brewery buys electric vehicles
Renault Trucks and Feldschlösschen, a Swiss brewery belonging to the Carlsberg Group, have made a tangible commitment to carbon neutral mobility: the truck manufacturer has handed over the keys to 20 electric vehicles. Feldschlösschen took delivery of most of the 26 t Renault... more
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... more
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... more