MOL banks on hybrid bonds 
Japanese shipping company MOL has submitted an amended version of the shelf-registration statement regarding the issuance of publicly offered hybrid corporate bonds (no collateral and subordinated corporate bonds) to the director-general of the Kanto Local Finance Bureau.In... more
Span Alaska announces leadership transition
Span Alaska Transportation, a freight forwarder that is based in Auburn WA and offers transport services all over Alaska, has announced that Tom Souply will retire as president and assume a strategic development role as executive vice president for corporate development on 1... more
1,000 flat cars for intermodal network
Intermodal operator Trans Synergy has ordered 1,000 large-capacity container flat cars from Russian freight car manufacturer UWC. The rolling stock will be delivered in 2021. This is the companies' second deal: 360 similar container flat cars were delivered to Trans Synergy last... more
"Curiosity of the Day" 
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First flight of last A380
The last A380 manufactured in Toulouse took off on its first flight last week. The superjumbo flew from the Airbus plant in southern France to the Hamburg site.It will undergo tests in northern Germany before its handover, for which no date has yet been fixed. The 251st model... more
New option for dangerous goods declaration
The Geis Group, based in Neu-Isenburg near Frankfurt (Germany), digitalised the registration of dangerous goods for its customer Siemens Healthineers within a few weeks, with the support of IT service provider Dakosy.The freight forwarding group, which surpassed the threshold of... more
Duty and responsibility
My, how times have changed! Two years ago ITJ editor Andreas Haug had a good conversation with Qatar Airways’ head of cargo in Johannesburg (see page 15 of ITJ 13-14 / 2019) – and now all that’s possible is an online chat. In the intervening two years the airline has grown... more
Air Tanzania finally to serve Southern China
Despite the difficult health situation worldwide, East African state carrier Air Tanzania plans to launch its service to Guangzhou in southern China tomorrow, 20 March 2021. It was originally scheduled to begin last September. The weekly outbound B787-8 flight will operate on... more
Quiet engines for heavy goods traffic
Rolling stock lessor Northrail has added seven diesel-electric universal locomotives from Vossloh to its fleet. The vehicles have been leased to DB Cargo for an initial three years and are already in service. With their high operational flexibility, they are designed for heavy... more
Delivering vital vaccines from India to Egypt
Etihad Cargo, the cargo and logistics arm of Etihad Aviation Group, and global supply chain company EFL (Expolanka Freight) have carried a vital consignment of vaccines from India, the world's largest manufacturer of vaccines according to WHO, to Egypt. Leveraging Etihad... more