New member of the board at Dunkerque-Port 
Julien Lernould, CFO of Dunkerque-Port, has been appointed to the board of the port operator, upon the recommendation of the chairman of the board. The board of Dunkerque-Port has four members. Lernould will join chairman Stéphane Raison, sales director Daniel Deschodt and... more
Night Star Express partners Mazda
Mazda Motor Logistics Europe has formed a partnership with the night express services provider Night Star Express Hellmann. As part of this cooperation, Night Star Express Hellmann delivers several hundred consignment per day from Willebroek in Belgium to Mazda retailers... more
Czech locomotives drive metallurgical operations in Turkey
After a three-week trip that included rail, river and road travel, the first two of the six EffiShunter 600 locomotives recently arrived in Turkey. The trip from the CZ LOKO production plant in Jihlava, Czechia, to the Isdemir ironworks in Turkey was completed without any... more
Advances in ULD air cargo technology innovations
ACL Airshop, a technology-driven global provider of air cargo ULD logistics solutions, used the occasion of the annual ULD care conference in Montreal (Canada) last week, to discuss continued progress with innovative technologies such as Bluetooth tracking & tracing,... more
Carrypicker wins GLEC accreditation
The online forwarder Carrypicker has fulfilled the quality standards of the Global Logistics Emissions Council (GLEC) and obtained the corresponding accreditation of the Smart Freight Centre (SFC), which campaigns for emission-free freight transport services worldwide. With... more
“Curiosity of the Day” 
The wheelbarrow was invented in early China, not for gardening, but as a means for the army to transport war materials along the narrow dams between the paddy fields. more
Amazon sets up fulfilment centre in Ontario
Amazon has announced plans for a new fulfilment centre in Scarborough, in the city of Toronto (Canada). The 93,000 sqm facility will create more than 600 full-time jobs with comprehensive benefits. This will be Amazon’s twelfth fulfilment centre in the country, and the seventh... more
50 flat cars for transport timber in Irkutsk region
Russia-based freight car manufacturer United Wagon Company UWC will supply the Russian leasing company Sberbank with 50 flat cars for the transportation of timber freight. Delivery is planned for October 2019. The freight cars will join the fleet of the Lesresurs-RusForest... more
CMA CGM vessel's launch marks new era
The CMA CGM Group, Marseille (France), has launched the world's largest (23,000 TEU) and first containership powered by liquefied natural gas (LNG). This launch took place at the Shanghai Jiangnan-Changxing shipyard. Rodolphe Saadé, chairman and chief executive officer of... more
Tri-state area of the east
China’s ‘One Belt, One Road’ initiative is also extending into the east of the country. A new inland port started operations in Hunchun recently that will focus on goods coming in from Russian ports by rail. more