DHL and Agility remain logistics partners of Messe Frankfurt 
Messe Frankfurt, one of the largest trade fair, congress and event organisers with its own exhibition grounds, has extended its exclusive cooperation with forwarding agents DHL trade fairs & events and Agility for five years. At the Messe Frankfurt exhibition grounds,... more
GLS Austria raises its prices
Parcel services provider GLS Austria is raising its prices in response to the still ongoing increase of personnel costs, because the company is determined to maintain the current quality of its parcel deliveries in future. GLS Austria introduced price rises already last... more
Hellmann opens branch in France
In September 2019, Hellmann Worldwide Logistics will open its first air freight and sea freight office in France. With this investment the company will close a gap its own European network and expand its global service portfolio. The office is in Villepinte, near the Charles de... 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
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
Enhanced tracking feature for Tigers customers
Tigers has released a new purchase order (PO) suite feature in the USA for its flagship, the cloud-based smarthub:connect (SH:C) platform, which allows customers to track factory orders and plan marketing campaigns related to stock availability. The roll-out of the PO suite... more
Kuehne + Nagel to offer CO2-neutral transports as from 2020
By launching its net zero carbon programme, Kuehne + Nagel actively contributes to the reduction of CO2 in transport and logistics worldwide. In addition to the continuous reduction of its own CO2 emissions, the company now offers its customers solutions for reducing the CO2... more
Logistics for e-cigarettes
Arvato Supply Chain Solutions has won Innocigs, the Hamburg (Germany)-based wholesaler of e-cigarettes, as a new customer. Since the beginning of September, the provider has been providing fulfilment and logistics services from its location in Marienfeld (North Rhine-Westphalia,... more
Rwanda’s arduous journey 
Rwandan infrastructure minister Claver Gatete took a look at transport conditions in his country in a keynote address to the East African Logistics Conference recently. He concluded that although a lot has already been achieved a great deal remains to be done. more
Circle reaches its financial targets
The board of directors of Circle has approved the half year financial report effective 30 June 2019. Luca Abatello, CEO of Circle, stated: "We are very satisfied with the results achieved in H1/2019, with a production value of EUR 2.6 million, up by over 8.5%, thanks to a... more