DRS cleans up UK’s civil nuclear sites 
Direct Rail Services (DRS) is joining forces with its fellow NDA transport subsidiaries to create Nuclear Transport Solutions (NTS), launching in April 2021. NTS will be a centre of excellence that underpins nuclear transport and logistics operations. It will operate DRS and... more
Shippers go to the barricades
Shippers recently found strong words for situation of the shipping market and the lack of mechanisms to resolve it. Denis Choumert, chairman of Global Shippers’ Alliance (GSA) and the European Shippers’ Council, spoke of "immense impairments" and sufferings of... more
Britannia P&I launches "B Korea"
Tomorrow, 20 February 2021, Britannia P&I will officially launch B Korea P&I Correspondent as its exclusive correspondents in Korea. B Korea will replace P&I Bros and be based in a new office located at the Seoul Finance Centre, Jung-gu, Seoul. It will be headed... more
500 daily transports going digital
Steel manufacturer Thyssen Krupp Europe, founded as a group in 1998, intends to expand its cooperation with the logistics platform Tramsporeon. The company will join the Transporeon network and assign more than 500 steel transports daily via the platform. The cooperation,... more
US airlines increase freight volumes abroad
Completing the data analysed on p. 13 of today's ITJ 09-10/2021, US airlines carried 1,854,000 t of cargo in December 2020 (preliminary), which is 17% more than in December 2019. The rise was fuelled by gains of 16% in domestic cargo and 20% in international cargo, according... more
Regular Asia-Americas service
The Singapore-based AAL Shipping (AAL) has decided to commit to one sailing per month between Asia and the Americas in 2021. With last year's experience of carrying a much broader portfolio of cargoes into Central America, United States Gulf of Mexico (USG), and the United... more
e-van to be tested for home delivery service
Rhenus Home Delivery is trying out a vehicle powered by an electric battery. Initially, the Maxus EV80 will be thoroughly put to the test at the German business site in Düsseldorf for four weeks – with the option of extending the trials or continuing them at a different business... more
Damen strengthens executive board
Ronald Suhlmann (photo) will become the new chief financial officer of Damen Shipyards Group, effective 1 April 2021. Succeeding Tom Touber, who held this position ad interim for two years, Suhlmann also joins Damen's executive board. He moved to Damen in 2015, after starting... more
Fastrate Group widens its scope
Canadian Fastrate Group acquires ASL Distribution Services Limited (ASL), a 3PL provider that has been active in Eastern Canada for more than 60 years. The Fastrate Group, which was founded more than 50 years ago, started out as an LTL road haulier and intermodal carrier and... more
Two more CRJ200 freighter conversions
Miami-based MRO services provider Aeronautical Engineers (AEI) has signed a contract to provide Mexico-based Aeronaves T.S.M. (TSM) with two additional CRJ200 SF freighter conversions. The first CRJ200 of this order will commence in May 2021, followed by the second aircraft... more