Fourth CLG aircraft at Leipzig airport 
Cargologic Germany (CLG), a German cargo airline based at Leipzig/Halle Airport (LEJ), received its fourth aircraft last week. The B737-400F, which was transferred from Canada, has been checked by the German federal aviation authority and cleared for operations. It will be... more
Dutch hauliers purchase fuel cell trucks
CV supplier Hyzon Motors has entered into definitive purchase agreements with Duurzaam Transport (subsidiary of Jan Bakker), and H2 Transport (a subsidiary of Millenaar & van Schaik) to supply a total of up to 20 hydrogen fuel cell powered trucks. Hyzon expects to... more
Kolter takes leadership in Emden
Christoph Kolter officially took over the helm at Emden’s port office, Germany on 1 June 2021. He succeeds Frank Herbig, who retires after having served the ports in Lower Saxony for 29 years. Until autumn 2020, Kolter was deputy captain of the port of Cuxhaven and he already... more
Cargo Sous Terrain rolls on
The Council of States, the second chamber of the Swiss Parliament, has unanimously approved the federal underground freight transport act, which gives the Cargo sous terrain (CST) underground transport system the legal basis to implement the project within a secure framework.... more
Symphony Group with a new site
A new 101,500 sqm production warehouse is to be developed by GMI Construction in UK. The building is for the Symphony Group, a British manufacturer of fitted kitchens and bedroom and bathroom furniture. The facility is coming up at Symphony headquarters in Barnsley (South... more
Italian islands get closer to mainland
Naples-based Grimaldi Group has launched a new Naples-Cagliari-Palermo ro-pax after winning the relative tender of the Italian ministry of sustainable infrastructures and mobility for long-distance land-based services of territorial continuity. The new link will be served... more
MSC block trains: full speed ahead
MSC reports that its recently-launched Asia-to-Europe ocean and rail solution has been well received by its customers (see ITJ Daily from 24 April 2021). Introduced in mid-May, the first shipment of MSC containers was moved via block train from Vostochniy to St. Petersburg in... more
A new entity with big ambitions
Since yesterday, 1 June 2021, the ports of Le Havre, Rouen and Paris, which have already been united under the Haropa banner since 2012, have additionally formed the ‘major Seine axis river and sea port authority’. During a sunny afternoon river cruise in the Parisian port of... more
A silver lining for reliability at sea?
According to Sea-Intelligence, a maritime intelligence provider from Copenhagen (Denmark), the increase in global schedule reliability in March 2021 didn’t last. Reliability levelled out, with carriers recording a 1 percentage point decrease month-on-month in April, coming to... more
New terminal promotes shift
A new container terminal is coming up in the inland port of Osnabrück (Germany) and going online in October. The operating company Container Terminal Osnabrück (CTO) will see the operational involvement of the logisticians and transporters Hellmann, Koch International and... more