New heads for Swissport's Emea region 
To further strengthen the Emea organisation and to better meet customer expectations with regard to air cargo handling and airport ground services, Swissport has appointed Rudolf Steiner as senior vice president cargo Europe, Middle East & Africa and Mark Skinner as senior... more
10,000th Flexi truck leaves the factory
Narrow Aisle has produced its 10,000th Flexi warehouse truck. The landmark machine is a Flexi Acion - the company’s latest model. It was specifically designed for a third party logistics (3PL) services company and will be deployed at a warehousing operation near Ljubljana... more
Britons still interested in Europe
British Airways-led International Consolidated Airlines Group (IAG) and Globalia have announced that definitive transaction agreements have been signed under which IAG’s wholly-owned subsidiary, IB Opco Holding (Iberia), has agreed to acquire the entire issued share capital of... more
Cargo streams follow when waters flow on the Rhine
Throughput volumes in the Swiss Rhine Ports rose by 21% in the first nine months of 2019, a significant improvement compared to the same period last year. In 2018, traffic was adversely affected by the period of low water, which slightly distorts the comparison. In 2019, water... more
“Curiosity of the Day” 
The man who found the 5,000 year old corpse Ötzi the Iceman in 1991 (Oldest natural European mummy) was also found dead frozen in ice in 2004. more
New vehicles to distribute food and drinks
A. F. Blakemore & Son in UK has added ten new Volvo FE rigids to its fleet. The forwarder will deploy the new vehicles on local and long distance, multi drop distribution of food and drink products. The ten Volvo FEs are a mixture of 4x2 and 6x2 rigid configurations. The... more
Eight maindeck destinations with RAM Cargo
RAM Cargo, the freight division of Royal Air Maroc, has unveiled its new full freighter winter programme with eight destinations in Africa in Europe served weekly via its hub in Casablanca (Morocco). This schedule has been effective since 27 October 2019 and will remain in... more
Christian U. Haas to chair the board at PTV Group
Christian U. Haas has been appointed chairman of the board of the company PTV Planung Transport Verkehr (PTV Group), Karlsruhe, Germany. The board of the PTV Group is now complete. Peter Overmann as chief technology officer (CTO) and Klaus Lechner as chief financial officer... more
ESR Australia expands its presence around Sydney
ESR continues to expand into the Australian industrial and logistics real estate space with the purchase of a 2008,000 sqm development site for AUD 142.5 million in western Sydney. Given that it is strategically situated near major transport links including the motorways and in... more
“It’s essential to earn our money”
Erich Staake has developed the German facility in Duisport into the largest inland port in Europe in two decades. Duisport is now only still a port in a small way; it’s simultaneously home to numerous large companies and is also a laboratory for start-ups. So Staake isn’t too... more