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
Vertical take-off tests in Paris
The Pontoise airfield in the Île-de-France region around Paris will be home to a new test centre dedicated to sustainable urban air mobility. It was inaugurated by ‘Choose Paris Region’, the airport operator Groupe ADP and the RATP Group recently. The inauguration paves the way... more
Bolloré Logistics picks Anne-Laure Marchal
Bolloré Logistics has appointed Anne-Laure Marchal as head of perfumes and cosmetics for the Americas region, based in New York. Before joining Bolloré Logistics, Marchal was key account manager at Flexport. During her career she’s also held various positions in the USA and... more
"Curiosity of the Day" 
Fish can distinguish human faces. This was shown in an experiment with the archer fish in Thailand, in which the fish chose a familiar face out of 44 other faces. more