Strengthening general cargo network 
As many as eight carriers have now joined Online Systemlogistik (OSL) in Germany. Werner Transport & Logistik and 17111 Logistik strengthen the general cargo network in Schleswig-Holstein, followed by Spedition Vögele, Grieshaber Logistik and Allgäu Frachtlogistik in the... more
WFS and Polar Air Cargo extend partnership
Polar Air Cargo, a global provider of time-definite, airport-to-airport scheduled air cargo services, has expanded its cargo handling partnership with Worldwide Flight Services (WFS) in North America through a new long-term contract at Los Angeles International Airport (LAX).... more
Shipping election materials for the Philippines
U-Freight’s Phils and U-Ocean brands in the Philippines have won a competitive government tender held by the country’s commission on elections (Comelc) to deliver the material and equipment from the Philippines to various foreign service posts, and return them subsequently, so... more
Changes in Finnlines’ management
Merja Kallio-Mannila joined the Finnlines group’s board of management on 1 January 2022. She continues in her present roles as deputy head of group sales, marketing & customer service, and as head of sales & customer service Finland. Torkel Saarnio has been appointed... more
SSY takes over Anchor Shipping
The 1880-founded Simpson Spence Young (SSY), a major British shipbroker, has acquired Anchor Shipbroking, based in Piraeus. Anchor Shipbroking specialises in sale & purchase. Expanding this division has long been a key focus of the SSY organisation, which elected Toby... more
Optimising wagonload traffic in Scandinavia
ÖBB Rail Cargo Group (RCG) is now routing its freight traffic from Linz (Austria) via the RCG hub in Rheinkamp near Duisburg (Germany) to Malmö in Sweden, from where the cargo is distributed within Scandinavia. In Rheinkamp, freight volumes can also be channelled onto trains... more
Empire Holdings buys West Air
Empire Holdings, parent company of Empire Airlines, has purchased West Air, a Fedex feeder airline headquartered in Fresno, California. Founded in 1978, West Air operates Cessna Caravans for Fedex, serving parts of California, Nevada and Utah. The company has feeder... more
Kabir Ahmed re-elected Baffa president
Chairman of Conveyor Logistics Kabir Ahmed has been re-elected president of Baffa (Bangladesh Freight Forwarders Association) for a further two years. The election for the association’s directors was held simultaneously in both Dhaka and Chattogram on 30 December. A meeting... more
Acquisition in Oslo
Oslo (Norway)-based shipping research and advisory company Via Mar is to become part of Vessels Value, which has over 200 employees across eight offices worldwide in UK, Singapore, Hong Kong, Shanghai, Seoul and Manila. Via Mar has over 100 years of shipping experience and... more
"Curiosity of the Day" 
The journalist Clare Hollingworth (1911-2017), who was the first journalist to report the outbreak of the Second World War, had then been working as a correspondent for only three days. more