Apex Rail welcomes Martin Metz 
Martin Metz joined Apex Rail as managing director & partner on 1 August 2022, bringing more than 30 years of experience in the banking industry. Metz previously spent more than 20 years as global head of land transport finance at DVB Bank. He moved to Landesbank... more
WFS adds cargo capacity at Heathrow
Worldwide Flight Services (WFS) has increased its facility footprint at London’s Heathrow Airport after a 30% growth in volumes in the past year. WFS has signed a five-year lease on Building 578 in the airport’s cargo area, boosting its warehouse and office space by a... more
Hermes picks Terry McGregor
Hermes Logistics Technologies (HLT) has appointed Terry McGregor as senior product manager as part of a wider strategy to grow the company’s senior leadership team and strengthen technical expertise. McGregor brings 15 years of product management experience to the position,... more
Changes at the helm of Rhenus Air & Ocean
Jan Harnisch (left) and Tobias König (right) have been named as the new global Co-CEOs for Rhenus Air & Ocean. Harnisch joined Rhenus as a business development manager in China in 2012 before moving to Singapore to take up the role of regional product ocean freight head... more
UPS expands healthcare logistics network
Bomi Group, a multinational healthcare logistics provider with Italian roots, has become the next target of UPS's expansion strategy. The takeover will add temperature-controlled facilities in 14 countries and nearly 3,000 Bomi staff members to the integrator's healthcare... more
Swiss transport group expands in Turkey
Interrail, a rail transport services provider headquartered in St Gallen (Switzerland), has opened an independent operating company in Turkey. The new company is registered under the name InterRail Uluslararası Nakliyat ve Lojistik Hizmetler T.A.S. and is based in Istanbul.... more
Qatar Airways augments Berlin services
The capital city of Germany, Berlin, is set to benefit from enhanced connectivity by Qatar Airways. The company will raise the number of Berlin services from daily to ten weekly flights, starting on 12 August 2022, and increase them to eleven weekly flights on 6 September 2022.... more
Chinese ports coming back
In June 2022, the container throughput index published by the RWI Leibniz Institute for Economic Research and the Institute of Shipping Economics and Logistics (ISL) grew to 126.1 points from 124.9 points (seasonally adjusted) the month before, according to the latest flash... more
Fully electric medicine transport
Georges Riederer is driving decarbonisation forward. The Swiss transport company has taken delivery of three fully electric E-Tech Masters from Renault. The vehicles will be used primarily to transport medicines over the last mile to pharmacies and drugstores in Switzerland.... more
Rijeka gains significance as European gateway
A new direct cargo rail service has been launched with the creation of the first regular train connection between the Adriatic Gate Container Terminal (AGCT) in Rijeka, Croatia, and Paskov in Czechia. The Maersk rail service runs up to two times per week. It is operated by... more