Bimco: recycling facilities under EU regulation 
The Baltic and International Maritime Council (Bimco) has insisted on the need to include non-EU recycling facilities, especially from the Indian subcontinent, in the list of authorised facilities of the European Union (EU). In a new edition of its 'Report on the European... more
"Curiosity of the Day" 
The English writer Charles Dickens (1812-1870) insisted on tidiness and order. He couldn't write a line if the table and chair weren't the way he wanted them. more
Fleet management system for SMEs
Impargo has closed its seed funding round with DKV Mobility, the European B2B platform for road transport payments. With the investment, the Berlin (Germany)-based start-up will develop a digital transportation management ecosystem (TME) that streamlines all essential... more
Where have the drivers come from?
Government action eases shortage of lorry drivers in the UK – bottlenecks averted. The UK government reacted to a shortage of lorry drivers and instituted measures after Brexit to train additional road haulage specialists. The next steps, which include channelling drivers into... more
Six charging stations for e-trucks
The first public charging and hydrogen filling station in the Nordic region for heavy goods traffic has opened at the Port of Gothenburg. The station will form a new hub at the port for facilitating the transition from fossil fuels to electricity and alternative fuels for heavy... more
New logistics hub at Lyon airport
UPS has inaugurated a new building at Lyon airport (LYS). With a capacity to sort 3,000 packages per hour, this logistics hub is part of the modernisation project for the platform's cargo area, Cargoport. In line with the environmental ambitions of Vinci Airports which operates... more
MCI: Søren Leth Johannsen to be promoted to CEO
Maersk Container Industry (MCI), a manufacturer of refrigerated containers and a subsidiary of A.P. Moller - Maersk, is promoting current CCO Søren Leth Johannsen to the company’s new CEO, effective November 2022. He will replace Sean Fitzgerald who has decided to step down from... more
It is Werner & Baylor now
In USA, Werner Enterprises has closed its acquisition of FAB9, which trades under the name of Baylor Trucking. The price of the transaction was not disclosed. Founded in 1946, Baylor is a truckload carrier that operates 200 trucks and 980 trailers in the east central and... more
Airbaltic carries over 400 t of mail from Ukraine
Since April 2022, the Latvian airline Airbaltic has been providing cargo operations from Kyiv, Ukraine by organising a multimodal mail transportation system in cooperation with Ukrposhta, Ukraine’s national postal service. From April to September, Airbaltic already carried a... more
A stable 9M/2022 in Rotterdam
351 million t of freight were handled in the Dutch port of Rotterdam in the first nine months of 2022, roughly the same amount as in 9M/2021 (+0.3%). The container segment dropped by 8.6% in total weight and by 4.4% in number of containers. However, considerably higher... more