Bergé Gefco aims at 20% reduction of CO2 emissions 
The logistics services provider Bergé Gefco was honoured by the Spanish industry association AECOC for its efforts to cut back CO2 emissions. In particular, the company wants to focus on reducing its carbon footprint by 20% over the next five years. Bergé Gefco is... more
Thai Airways celebrates and expands
Thai Airways is celebrating the 35th anniversary of its arrival in Switzerland. On 4 November 1984 the Southeast Asian airline landed at Zurich airport for the first time, a milestone that was remembered at the airport a few days ago. Together with its customers, Thai Airways... more
New train running between Austria and Hungary
With the TransFER Wels-Vienna-Budapest, the Austria-based ÖBB Rail Cargo Group (RCG) is launching a new rail connection, thereby creating further network effects for intermodal solutions on key corridors and between three of the most important intermodal nodes in Europe.... more
Innovative engines for cross-border railfreight
Metrans, a subsidiary of the Hamburger Hafen and Logistik, Hamburg’s port operator (HHLA), has received the first Vectron MS locomotive at the company’s container terminal in Prague (Czechia). The vehicle is part of a group of ten multi-system locomotives ordered from Siemens.... more
Mark Frese to become new CFO of Hapag-Lloyd
During its meeting, Hapag-Lloyd’s supervisory board appointed Mark Frese to the executive board, effective 25 November. On 1 March 2020, he will become the new CFO, replacing Nicolás Burr. Mark Frese was most recently employed as CFO of Ceconomy, the former Metro. Before that,... more
Volvo Group to restructure its marketing efforts
The Volvo Group has decided to expand the footprint of its two brands Renault Trucks and Volvo Trucks in Europe. For this purpose, the company will create separate market units (importers) for both brands across Europe as from 1 January 2020. Until now, the brands were... more
HHLA faces more volatility in its markets
The terminal operator Hamburger Hafen und Logistik AG (HHLA) is satisfied with its results in the first nine months of 2019. Container throughput grew moderately due to the integration of the Estonian terminal operator HHLA TK Estonia, which was acquired last year, and improved... more
PSI warehouse management system for DFB's equipment
The German soccer federation (Deutscher Fussball-Bund, DFB) organises the supply of equipment for its national football teams from the new logistics centre in Langen near Frankfurt/Main (Germany) using the warehouse management system provided by PSI Logistics. PSIwms has... more
Golden October in east Belgium
In these challenging times with air cargo volumes being down all over the world, Liege airport is going against the trend. It has the best month in its history - almost 84,000 t in October 2019 - bringing the volume up to 730,000 t for the first ten months of 2019 with two peak... more
Climate-neutral transports per mouse click
The fleet.tech-CO2 balance provides the commercial vehicles industry with an innovative tool to easily measure the amount of CO2 greenhouse gases emitted by their vehicles. The companies can then compensate for the emissions with the help of the Swiss foundation myclimate.... more