Torwegge opens interactive experience centre in Bielefeld 
Almost two years after the start of construction, Torwegge has officially opened its new interactive experience centre. 75 visitors from the business community and the media were present at the inauguration ceremony. In addition to presentations on warehousing, production and... more
New public LNG filling stations as from January 2020
Rolande, a pioneer and major provider of infrastructures for fuelling trucks with liquid natural gas (LNG) and bio-LNG in the Netherlands, is now entering the German market. It will open its first German LNG filling station in Ulm in January 2020. In the same year, Rolande... more
Bye bye, Bei Bei!
Today, 19 November 2019, Fedex "Panda Express" will fly again, for the 8th time. This time the specially decaled B777F will carry Bei Bei, a four-year-old giant panda, 13,700 km from the Smithsonian’s National Zoo in Washington DC (USA) to Chengdu, China. Bei Bei... more
Pharmaserv Logistics rents more real estate
Pharmaserv Logistics has leased the last available areas in the industrial and logistics park GG Rhein-Main (Germany). Four Parx is currently transforming the plots for new buildings in accordance with the lessee’s pharma standards. A third of the area will be transformed... more
Tandem to lead DVF
At its recent meeting, the presiding board of the Deutsches Verkehrsforum (German transport forum, DVF) chose a tandem to lead the association in future. Deputy managing director Florian Eck was promoted to the position of managing director on an equal level with the current CEO... more
New safety devices at the LSCT in La Spezia
Three new emergency medical devices have recently been installed at the La Spezia container terminal. The LSCT equipped the workplace with three defibrillators, strategically positioned in three different areas of the terminal. Present at the inauguration the La Spezia... more
Malawi to upgrade 346 km of its transport network
The European Investment Bank (EIB) and European Union are investing a total of EUR 139 million into refurbishing the principal road M1 across landlocked Malawi. Once carried out, the road works are expected to reduce transport costs, cut travel time, facilitate exports and will... more
Healthy ambitions 
A very important new chapter in shipping is set to be opened in the next few weeks, with IMO 2020 entering into force. The experts who gathered for the latest Euromed Congress agreed that shipowners should bank on various measures to reduce emissions. more
VTG to add transparency to its fleet
From spring 2020, Nexxiot will equip VTG's entire tank container fleet with IoT sensors. The Swiss company, which develops digital supply chain management solutions, recently signed a contract to this effect with VTG Rail Europe, a German-based provider of logistics services for... more