Melvin named 'Outstanding Woman in Supply Chain' 
South Carolina Ports president and CEO Barbara Melvin (middle) received the Outstanding Women in Supply Chain award from supply chain management students Halie Fairchild (left) and Jenna Murphy (right) at The University of Tennessee, Knoxville. “In choosing a recipient, we... more
Maersk opens warehouse in Cape Town
A.P. Moller – Maersk has inaugurated its first warehousing and distribution facility in Cape Town in South Africa. The hub will offer easy connectivity to rail, road, air and port infrastructure and serve as an important link in integrated logistics solutions. The new... more
Shifting more goods to rail
Oman and Etihad Rail has signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with the Brazilian mining company Vale, to explore the use of rail to transport iron ore and its derivatives between Oman and UAE. The train will run between Vale’s industrial complex in Sohar Port and... more
CBP and FDA seize Apetamin worth USD 688,000
US Customs and Border Protection officers and US Food and Drug Administration consumer safety officers seized over 25,000 bottles of Apetamin, an appetite-stimulating and potentially harmful weight-gain supplement popularised on social media, on 28 April 2023, after it arrived... more
Three new faces on BVL’s board
On 9 May 2023, around 120 BVL members met for the annual general meeting at the Transport Logistic trade fair in Munich. More than 60 other members had transferred their votes to those present in Munich and some of them took part at the meeting online. The main item on the... more
Three Canadian ports take up net-zero challenge
After Canada’s federal minister of environment and climate change issued the net-zero challenge in August 2022, the ports of Montreal, Quebec City and Trois-Rivières began to join forces to accelerate the decarbonisation of maritime transport on the St. Lawrence River corridor.... more
"Curiosity of the Day" 
Humanity weighs approximately 287 million t, of which 15 million t are attributable to overweight people and 3.5 million t to obese people. more
Agility's acquisitions pay off in Q1/2023
Kuwait-based Agility ended Q1/2023 with earnings of KWD 15.3 million (EUR 45.7 million), an increase of 20% over the same period in 2022. Agility’s ebitda increased 78.1% to KWD 60.4 million (EUR 180.5 million) and revenue grew 142.7% to KWD 320.5 million (EUR 958 million).... more
Winning new business and expanding fleet
UK-based container logistics specialist MBBA in UK has expanded its trailer fleet and invested in 13 new skeletal trailers from Krone. The new equipment is to replace older units but also to help winning new and improved contracts from the company’s client base. Some of the... more
Now transporting wood
Salzburger Eisenbahn Transport Gesellschaft (SETG) implements wooden wagon concept. On 15 March the ‘Sflexwood’, presented here a few months ago (see page 22 of ITJ 1-4 / 2023), was provided punctually for loading. The wagons of the first train composition had previously been... more