Cargo Ai picks Fintech veteran 
Launched in February 2023, Cargo Ai’s Cargo Wallet software has quickly gained traction and today facilitates cargo payments in over 47 currencies. The digital enabler has now appointed the global payment expert Olivier Veyrac as its senior vice president for Cargo Wallet.... more
Supporting a Savannah site
Armlogi has expanded its site at the Port of Savannah, thus enhancing capacity at its busiest warehouse in the USA. Dubbed SAV1, the warehouse has handled over 800 container shipments since its launch in 2021. 300 more are expected soon. It is this increase in demand that has... more
Subsidies for services and not for companies
The revision of its freight transport act and temporary bridging finance for single wagonload transport are to modernise the country’s freight transport sector and promote multimodal services, said transport minister Albert Rösti at the general assembly of the Swiss Shippers’... more
Commercial fleet to more than double by 2043
In its 2024 commercial market outlook (CMO) for China, a long-term forecast of demand for commercial airplanes and related services, Boeing predicts that China will more than double its commercial airplane fleet by 2043 as its aviation industry expands and modernises to meet... more
An e-truck for long-haul beer deliveries
The Swiss brewer Feldschlösschen used an e-truck for its beverage transport operations for the first time in 2013. It has gradually extended its fleet to a total of 20 fully electric Renault Trucks since then, recently adding a 44 t Renault Trucks E-Tech T. With its six... more
Peel Ports welcomes head of marine for Scotland
Alex McIntosh has been appointed to the senior position at Peel Ports Clydeport as the first women to hold the role for the port group in Scotland. She recently returned to the business after becoming its first ever female pilot in Scotland in early 2010. Now based at the... more
New 13,100 teu containership for Wan Hai
Wan Hai Lines held a naming ceremony for the new 13,100 teu containership, “Wan Hai A17”, at Samsung Heavy Industries' shipyard on 23 August. This vessel is the tenth in a series of thirteen, featuring environmentally friendly engines and "smart ship notation"... more
Coming soon: autonomous distribution yards
In a market first, Mitsubishi Electric Automotive America (MEAA) has introduced “Hub Pilot”, a platform as a service (PaaS) to support autonomous distribution yard logistics. The technology uses infrastructure-based perception, high-definition mapping and sensors to... more
Monitoring over 2,000 freight movements per day
IAG Cargo, the cargo division of International Airlines Group (IAG) has opened its new control centre at its largest hub at London Heathrow. The new facility will significantly improve on day decision making with comprehensive real-time data and workload forecasting tools... more
Croatian manufacturer modernises Slovakian locos
The Slovakian railfreight operator ZSSK Cargo plans to modernise ten more 742.6 series locomotives, which are a complete upgrade of 742 series locomotives to the Effi Shunter 1000M type with the Czech manufacturer CZ Loko. Only the frame and the undercarriage of the original... more