Beumer Group picks Rudolf Hausladen 
Germany-based family-run company Beumer has announced a change in its leadership: Rudolf Hausladen took over as new CEO on 1 June 2022, succeeding Christoph Beumer, who had led Beumer Group as CEO since 2000. Beumer will remain on the management board until the end of the year... more
UBS sells to Prologis
An open-ended special fund managed by the Swiss UBS Real Estate is selling a portfolio of eleven German logistics properties to Prologis. The buildings are spread over a total of 600,000 sqm of land and include both turnkey buildings and new development opportunities. No... more
More green equipment for NTB Bremerhaven
The NTB North Sea Terminal Bremerhaven will soon receive a further 27 hybrid Kalmar straddle carriers for its container terminal, ordered in two batches in 2021 and 2022. The delivery of both orders is scheduled to take place in the course of 2023. NTB, one of Europe’s major... more
Three rail companies build a maintenance station
The Austrian rail companies ÖBB Train Tech, LTE and ELL (European Locomotive Leasing) have opened the doors of their joint Locomotive Maintenance Station, Locmasta, near Vienna, Austria, after just 14 months of construction. Locmasta's buildings next to Gramatneusiedl train... more
Deugro strengthens position in Sweden
Deugro has opened an office in Gothenburg, Sweden to provide the full scope of project freight forwarding & logistics solution for Swedish customers. The company has completing various projects in the Swedish project logistics market over the past years, especially for... more
ITS celebrates 30th anniversary
Founded on 17. May 1992, ITS - International Transport & Shipping is celebrating its 30th anniversary this year. Massimo Bianco, Javier Sanchez and Fabrizio Cassai took over the company in 2009. One year later they brought Patric Bund on board. At that time, ITS and its... more
Finnlines: all good things come in threes
The Chinese shipyard China Merchants Jinling Shipyard (Jiangsu) has delivered the third hybrid ro-ro vessel for Finnlines. Each of the three ships is 238 m long, with a cargo capacity of 5,800 lane metres. Consequently, the vessels can carry 400 trailers per voyage. Compared... more
Heppner and CTL: a new approach
The general cargo alliance Cargo Trans Logistik (CTL) is relaunching its general cargo transports to France in cooperation with the French forwarding and logistics company Heppner. CTL partner companies can now feed in their goods for Germany via Heppner locations, which... more
More road freight congestion ahead?
The European full and part load network Elvis and the German association of small and medium-sized enterprises BVMW have warned of new problems for supply chains. Bottlenecks in the German rail network are threatening to increase congestion in road freight traffic if more... more
Panasonic's contract in the French market
Following a trial run, Panasonic has now contracted Gefco as its exclusive service provider in France. For the client's consumer goods division, Gefco coordinates, from its storage platform in the greater Paris area, the supply of resellers, specialised stores, large retail... more