Project forwarding award for Deugro 
Lloyd’s Loading List honoured Deugro at the global freight awards 2019 ceremony. For the company’s implementation of the Liwa Plastics Industries Complex (PIC) Project, Deugro took home the first-place award in the project forwarding category. The shortlisted Liwa PIC project... more
ONE takes another step towards digitalisation
ONE makes digital and mutually enforceable contracts part of its business environment. The shipping group joins a number of carriers that use the platform NYSHEX. Seven of the major global ocean carriers are already on board, representing not only approx. 60% of global capacity,... more
Ethiopian Airlines next week, next year
Starting next Monday, 16 December 2019, Ethiopian Airlines will operate flights to Houston, TX, three times per week. The fourth most populous city in the USA and the world's largest concentration of healthcare and research institutions, will be served with a B787 via the... more
New head for Britannia’s Greek Office
Britannia P&I Club has announced that Konstantinos Samaritis will be taking over as head of its office in Greece with effect from 1 January 2020. Samaritis is a qualified Greek lawyer and accredited mediator. He joined Britannia’s managers, Tindall Riley, in 2018, having... more
DHL tests cargo bikes in New York
DHL is launching its cubicycle in New York City. As part of a trial programme the company is testing the deployment of up to eight cargo bicycles, in order to take the weight off road traffic and reduce air and noise pollution. “Cargo bicycles have an important role to... more
“Curiosity of the Day” 
Friday the thirteenth has been considered an unlucky day only since the beginning of the 20th century. It occurs at least once and at most three times a year. more
Switzerland: efficient railfreight even on the last mile
It is a stone’s throw, the service the Swiss railfreight company SBB Cargo started to run for Feldschlösschen recently. The distance from the brewery’s headquarters in Rheinfelden in Argovia to Rickenbach in Solothurn is about 40 km and thus the shortest stretch on which the... more
Another generation of MOL vessels
The Tokyo-based Japanese carrier MOL is ordering two new bulk carriers from Oshima Shipbuilding. The so-called 'EeneX' series was designed in pursuit of the best possible coal carrier for electric power companies in Japan. The two vessels MOL has ordered will operate under... more
Oil prospector banks on Bourbon
The French logistics enterprise Bourbon Marine & Logistics is supporting an exploratory oil project in Namibia with its extensive range of services. more
New boost for rail logistics
In Germany, Duisport and Cargo Beamer have joined forces to plan eco-friendly supply chains from ramp to ramp. The project centres on Cargo Beamer’s first wagon park in Duisburg, which offers automated cargo handling for semitrailers from road to rail, robotised cargo... more