Asia-Pacific to Europe tonnage fails to rebound 
According to the latest weekly air cargo trends supplied by World ACD, global airfreight tonnage rose by 8% in week three of 2025. In the previous week tonnage rebounded by 29%. This means that tonnage is up to 90% of the level reported in the last week before Christmas. Average... more
Cyprus Shipping Chamber elects DG
The directors of the Cyprus Shipping Chamber have appointed its deputy director general / marine manager Alexandros Josephides as the body’s next director general. Josephides will succeed Thomas A. Kazakos, who is taking over as secretary-general of the London-based... more
Trailer Bridge awarded naval supply contract
Trailer Bridge is set to provide logistics solutions for the US military as part of a five-year multi-award contract from Naval Supply Systems Command. The USD 1.4 billion ‘Worldwide Expeditionary Multiple Award Contract 2.0’ will see Trailer Bridge catering to the military’s... more
Dachser fleet and business growing
The haulier Dachser reached two milestone recently. The first one concerns the introduction of its 100th fully electric truck for food logistics distribution. The 16 t ‘Volvo FL Electric’, which weighs more than 3.5 t, has a refrigerated body and will commence deliveries of... more
Developing India’s next big port
HMM, represented by Daljoong Jeong (managing director of HMM India, right), has signed a memorandum of understanding with the Jawaharlal Nehru Port Authority (JNPA), represented by its chairman Unmesh Sharad Wagh (left), to collaborate on developing Vadhvan Port. Under the... more
One hour from the German border
Realterm has acquired a last-mile logistics facility in Nijmegen (Netherlands), a mere 18 km from the German border. The site includes a 10,000 sqm logistics space and 3,500 sqm for offices. It also features two-sided loading access, 16 dock doors and two points of ingress and... more
Stena RoRo enhances fleet with Danish ship
Stena RoRo has acquired the ro-ro vessel ‘Giuseppe Lucchesi’ and renamed it the ‘Stena Shipper’, thus expanding its fleet and market presence. The vessel was built in 2012 at Denmark’s Odense yard and is 193 m long and can carry 3,663 lane metres of rolling cargo on four decks.... more
Funding and a CEO for Elroy Air
Elroy Air, a leader in middle-mile aerial autonomous logistics, has appointed Andrew Clare as the new chief executive officer to lead the company in its next phase of scaling the company’s hybrid-electric, vertical takeoff and landing aircraft (hVTOL), the ‘Chaparral’. Elroy... more
CO2 avoidance and reduction certificates launched
The certificates, introduced by Etihad Rail in the UAE, quantify and validate the carbon savings businesses achieve by choosing rail over alternative transport modes, directly contributing to the UAE’s decarbonisation goals. It is the region’s first-ever ‘CO2 Emission Avoidance... more
Cargo volumes up in Singapore
A total of 1.99 million t of airfreight throughput was handled at Singapore Changi airport in 2024, surpassing 2023’s level by 14.6%. Growth was seen across all cargo categories – exports, imports and transhipments, driven by major improvements in flows between Singapore and... more