Spedition Garbe gets LNG filling station 
Alternoil and Hoyer have founded a joint venture to quickly expand the network of LNG filling stations. The JV will open new facilities with the innovative fuel at Hoyer service stations and Hoyer customers' sites, as was recently the case at Spedition Garbe, which has more than... more
Swedish double strike in the south
Founded in Gothenburg in 2003, Swedish freight forwarder NTEX recently acquired the transport and forwarding company Scanroad in Belgium and shares in the Italian freight company ITX Cargo. It is a further step on a path already taken, since the Swedes acquired Scanroad Sweden... more
Second career for former Scandlines CEO
Søren Poulsgaard Jensen joins the advisory board of Ehrenberg Sørensen Kommunikation, an international communications agency. Due to his many years of experience as CEO of Scandlines, Poulsgaard Jensen is one of the most experienced managers in the maritime industry in... more
Better rail access for Wilhelmshaven
Around EUR 13.6 billion is to be invested in Germany’s rail infrastructure in 2022. This is roughly EUR 900 million more than in 2021 and the highest sum ever made available in a single year. The money will be used for 175 infrastructure projects. Among other things, 1,800... more
GDP and WDA for NX Spain
Two certificates at the same time: Nippon Express de España has obtained the wholesale distributor authorisation (WDA) and good distribution practice (GDP) certification from the Catalan department of health. Effective 24 January 2022, temporary storage, import/export... more
Hupac increases train frequency
The Swiss Intermodal Operator is expanding its shuttle services between Germany and Italy: as of 7 February 2022, the company will be offering three round trips per week on its Duisburg – Proderonone line. With the extension, Hupac provides a stable intermodal service between... more
Alexander Granderath to chair supervisory board
The supervisory board of VTG Aktiengesellschaft, a European wagon hire and rail logistics company, has elected Alexander Granderath as its new chairman. He succeeds Jost A. Massenberg, who served on VTG’s supervisory board for over fifteen years and as its chairman since the... more
Digital service provider starts CO2 cooperation
As from February 2022, the users of "startracking", an airport-to-airport tracking solution provided by the Italian company Cargo Start, can benefit from special conditions to access a Swiss solution for the certified calculation of the greenhouse gas emissions... more
Freight rates: price hike expected to continue
The European road freight rate benchmark for Q4/2021 shows that prices ended 2021 at historic highs in Europe. The index stood at 108.3, 1.1 points higher than in Q3/2021 and 3.2 points higher than in Q4/2020. Q4/2021 is the 6th consecutive quarter of rate increases in Europe.... more