Management changes at Eurogate 
Marc Dieterich will take over as new managing director of Eurogate Container Terminal Bremerhaven (CTB) on 1 April 2022. He comes from North Sea Terminal Bremerhaven (NTB), where he held management positions for more than two decades, most recently for seven years as operations... more
Lödige equips mega hub at Istanbul Airport
Lödige Industries completed the new fully automated terminal for Turkish Cargo recently. At the new location at Istanbul Airport, one of the largest and busiest cargo terminals in the world, has been built on a total area of around 300,000 sqm, offering a handling capacity of... more
Mersin is GW's new location
Gebrüder Weiss has opted for a multimodal approach in Eastern Turkey: its new location offers air and sea freight services, as well as intermodal land transport. Mersin, the country's second port and an important hub in the East Med not least due to the sanctions against the... more
Add Secure eco driving challenge cuts 12.900 t CO2
Add Secure has announced the results of its eco-driving 2021 competition. The competition, called the Add Secure eco-driving challenge, is voluntary for Add Secure's smart transport customers and is based on the Add Secure eco-driving index. When the data was analysed, it was... more
Road upgrades in Liberia and Sierra Leone
The African Development Bank Group (AFDB) has approved USD 88.2 million in financing for the third phase of the road development and transport facilitation programme for the Mano River Union, an association initially established between Liberia and Sierra Leone. The third... more
New equipment for the port of Lagos
Tincan Island Container Terminal (TICT) has ordered two new cranes for its operations at the Port of Lagos (Nigeria). The Konecranes Gottwald ESP.8 Mobile Harbour Cranes are scheduled for delivery in June 2022. TICT is a consortium of Bolloré Ports and an association of China... more
Skyports raises USD 23 million in series B round
Skyports, an electric air taxi infrastructure and drone services provider, has raised USD 23 million in the first close of its series B funding round. The capital will enable Skyports to consolidate its strong position in the advanced air mobility infrastructure and drone... more
Founder steps down after almost 28 years
Base Logistics Group, a logistics service provider based in Moerdijk, Netherlands, has a new CEO. On 7 March, founder Robin Voet transferred his duties to Michiel van den Bovenkamp, who had previously been operational director. Voet established Base Logistics in 1994 and in... more
More engineers for automation system
UK-headquartered 3PL Europa Warehouse – part of Europa Worldwide Group – is beefing up its technical staff at its warehouse in Corby. The team of in-house engineers has grown in recent months with the recruitment of six new staff employed to maintain the site’s GBP 11 million... more
