North American purchase of rolling reefers 
TFI International, which operates in the USA, Canada and Mexico, has acquired the trucking company D&D Sexton, based in Carthage MO (USA). D&D’s fleet of more than 120 tractors and 150 drivers specialising in refrigerated freight, will be integrated into the... more
Second Nature Brands names Mack Phillips 
Second Nature Brands, a leading snacks company, has appointed Mack Phillips as its chief supply chain officer. In this role he’ll be in charge of all supply chain activities, including oversight of plant-level procurement, production planning, manufacturing and... more
Spanish ports on their way back
Spanish ports grouped in the ‘Puertos del Estado’ entity handled 442.2 million t of goods between January and October this year, 5.4% more than in the same period of 2020. The pre-pandemic level hasn’t yet been reached, however (–5.1% versus 2019). Conventional general... more
Following the stars
Volga-Dnepr Airlines (VDA) organised delivery of what the oversized and superheavy project transport specialist called “the world's largest and most sophisticated commercial communications satellite.” It hauled the Inmarsat-6 F1 from Toulouse (France) to Kitakyushu... more
Inchcape opts for a digital logistics partner
Inchcape Shipping Services and Horizon Air Freight are taking the joint digital path. Customers of Inchcape’s last-mile spares logistics and door-to-deck delivery throughout the Americas can now use the Horizon World Track portal, which gives them real-time updates on all their... more
ROM Cargo signs up Air One Aviation
ROM Cargo has appointed Air One Aviation as its exclusive global sales and services partner, after the company was awarded its air operator’s certificate by the Romanian civil aviation authority to begin international Boeing B747-400 freighter services. The new contract means... more
Joachim Werner wins European safety award
Iveco engineer Joachim Werner has won this year’s European commercial vehicle safety award. Created in 1990, the prize is presented annually by the European Association for Accident Research and Analysis, the German vehicle inspection company Dekra, and the same country’s road... more
Special safety arrangements for street lamps
Gebrüder Weiss has transported 12,600 LED street lights and lamp posts to Mongolia on the New Silk Road rail route for the Zumtobel lighting group. The equipment is required for an infrastructure project commissioned by the Mongolian government. More than 80 containers were... more
Two digital musketeers for Röhlig
The Bremen-based logistics company Röhlig, and the IT service provider G Beyond, have joined forces to found the companies Logineer and Cargonerds, to increase the portfolio of services for global air and sea freight forwarders. Röhlig said in a media release that “both... more
Sino-Finnish MoU for naval technology
The Finnish technology group Wärtsilä has inked an MoU with the China Classification Society and the Tianjin Port Group to co-develop China’s next-generation intelligent tugs, in line with CCS intelligent ship standards. The project’s scope includes delivering situational... more