Luxury contract for Wincanton 
In UK, luxury lifestyle retailer The “White Company” has contracted Wincanton for a period of five years, which includes an outsourcing element. The cooperation is beginning immediately via multi-channel fulfilment services, including international e-commerce order... more
Thomas Smith Shipping expands board of directors
Thomas Smith Shipping, the logistics arm of the Thomas Smith Group, has appointed two seasoned executives to its board of directors. Ramon Azzopardi (left) has been a member of the team at Thomas Smith since 2006, when he joined the company as a sales executive. His most... more
Ostend-Bruges Airport digitises cargo operations
Ostend-Bruges Airport is equipping its cargo hub with a Nallian-powered Cargo Cloud, enabling a coordinated, digitalised approach to processes such as freight pick up and drop off, and the inspection of perishable goods. At the same time, it will provide the airport operator... more
Czech construction firm gets Effi Shunter with ETCS
The construction company Subterra has become Czechia's first private operator of a CZ Loko Effi Shunter 1,000 locomotive equipped with the ETCS train control system. The company’s representatives recently took over the unit in Jihlava, Czechia. Subterra will use the modern... more
"Curiosity of the Day" 
The roar of the Tyrannosaurus Rex in the Jurassic Park movies is a mixture of the squeals of a baby elephant, the gurgles of an alligator and the growls of a tiger. more
Certificate renewal for Jade Weser Port
Germany's Jade Weser Port Wilhelmshaven has gained Pers certification for its environmental management for the fourth time in total. Pers is the abbreviation for “Port Environmental Review System”, a tool for comprehensive analysis and monitoring of environmental management... more
Changes at Mitsui O.S.K. Lines
Mitsui O.S.K. Lines (MOL; president & CEO: Takeshi Hashimoto) has announced the following changes: Yoshiro Sakamoto, former general manager, secretaries & general affairs division, has been named general manager of legal division, effective 21 June 2022. Masaaki... more
Expeditors tackling the cyber attack
1979-founded Expeditors International based in Seattle has reported its results for Q1/2022. The group with 18,000 employees saw its revenues climb by 46% compared to Q1/2021, achieving USD 4.7 billion, while its operating income rose by 20% to USD 462 million. According to... more
Investment needed to shift more semi-trailers
Standard vertical transhipment technologies (gantry cranes/reachstackers), in combination with containers, are becoming more competitive with road-only transport solutions over distances of around 1,000 km, a study has concluded. It added that most intermodal transport chains... more
Cargo operations re-open in Kyiv
AirBaltic has cooperated with Ukrposhta to organise a multimodal mail transport system and thus reopen cargo operations from Kyiv. The first mail shipment from the Ukrainian capital arrived in Riga on 12 April. Since then the company has handled more than 7,000 mail bags... more