Shani Ben-David first woman to be elected captain 
ZIM president & CEO, Eli Glickman officially appointed Shani Ben-David to the position of captain in a traditional ceremony held at the company's headquarters in Haifa. Ben-David is the first woman to reach the highest rank in the Israeli merchant marine. She is a... more
More LNG for Yang Ming
Taiwan-based shipping company Yang Ming will equipped five new 15,000 teu container vessels with dual-fuel LNG power. In a press release, Yang Ming described LNG as a "mature low-carbon alternative" to regular fuel, reducing each unit's gas emissions' footprint by 20%.... more
WFS lands four contracts in Spain
Worldwide Flight Services’ (WFS) has won new contracts for its full ground and cargo handling capabilities in Spain: the Hungarian cargo charter airline Fleet Air has commissioned WFS to provide cargo handling services in this country. In Madrid, WFS is operating seasonal... more
US short line rail road expands in Pennsylvania
Reading & Northern Railroad (R&N) has acquired a campus in Carbon County (Pennsylvania, USA) consisting of a complex of nine buildings and a number of heavy cranes systems that can lift equipment of varying weights. The facility is situated in the middle of the R&N... more
Bolloré opens warehouse in Abidjan
Bolloré Transport & Logistics Cote d’Ivoire is inaugurating a modern 9,000 sqm logistics base in the airport area of Abidjan, Ivory Coast to foster the import and export of goods by air. The new infrastructure will have required 18 months of work and an investment of CFA... more
New TEX service to start next month 
Hamburg-based carrier Hapag-Lloyd will launch the new regular service Turkey East Coast Express (TEX) in mid May 2022. The weekly service will call the three Turkish ports of Izmit, Aliaga and Mersin and connect them eastbound with the US East Coast ports of New York,... more
Geodis strengthens its executive team in Germany
Geodis has appointed Johann Peter Reimer as its new air freight director and Björn Srocke as its new sales director in Germany. Reimer has 20 years of experience in logistics, both at home and abroad. After training as a forwarding merchant and business economist, he has... more
Natilus to build 3.8 t aircraft in San Diego
Natilus, a US company which produces the world’s first purposefully-designed and manufactured autonomous aircraft for air freight transport, is building new engineering and manufacturing facilities for its family of aircraft on San Diego’s Brown Field. “As the design of the... more
Coal transports reach a record high
Indian Railways (IR) has intensified its coal transports. During the year 2021-22, the state-owned railway augmented its coal shipments by a record 111 million t, thus loading a total of 653 million t of coal, 20.4 % more than the year before. Furthermore, during the period... more
World trade in peril, says WTO
In mid- April, the WTO published its analysis on the implications of the war in Ukraine for global trade and development. The WTO secretariat's note, ‘The Crisis in Ukraine: Implications of the war for global trade and development’, anticipates that the crisis could lower global... more