U-Ming Marine investing for Taiwan 
The U-Ming Marine Offshore Company (Umo), a Taiwanese joint venture, has acquired two second-hand crew-transfer vessels (CTVs). The JV between the U-Ming Marine Transport Corporation, established in 1984, and World Marine Offshore, from Denmark, completed their reflagging... more
Brussels airport aviation awards
The Brussels Airport Company has continued its annual tradition with the ‘Brussels Airport Aviation Awards’. There are two awards dedicated to the cargo segment. This year the ‘Brucargo Award’ went to the handling company Dnata, which has proven to be a stable handling... more
Atlas Air with strong Q1 results
Atlas Air Worldwide Holdings Inc has announced a net income of USD 81.5 million for the first quarter of 2022, or USD 2.38 per diluted share, compared with USD 89.9 million (USD 3.05 per diluted share) in 2021. (Last year included USD 40.9 million of Cares Act grant income, or... more
Autonomous trucking going ahead
Volvo Autonomous Solutions (VAS) is set to offer new hub-to-hub autonomous transport solutions in the USA, and to this end will partner global logistics provider DHL Supply Chain as its first customer in the project. The solution is designed to serve shippers, carriers,... more
More warehousing logistics made by Sievert
The German forwarder Sievert Logistik is set to concentrate more on its portfolio of value-added services, with the goal of increasing its annual turnover in the warehousing logistics sector to EUR 25 million by 2025. To this end the logistics services provider will now further... more
Changing its modal split 
The carrier ONE to make use of Metrans intermodal services. more
Mining company tests electric locomotives
Vale, a mining and logistics company based in Brazil, has received its second 100% electric and battery powered locomotive. Manufactured in China by CRRC Zhuzhou Locomotive, the unit will initially operate in the Ponta da Madeira Terminal's switchyard in Sao Luis. Its batteries... more
UPS picks Ufku Akaltan
Ufku Akaltan will lead UPS operations in more than 70 countries in the Indian Subcontinent, Middle East, Africa and Central Asia. As UPS president for these markets, he succeeds Jean-Francois Condamine, who recently retired. Akaltan joined UPS in 2001 as an intern while... more