Better service between first and last mile 
In China, trucking service provider Ming Zhu has signed an MoU to acquire the controlling interest of Xinjiang Feipeng Logistics, a provider of slack coal shipments for the "first and last mile" by a road-railway intermodal system based in Xinjiang. When completed,... more
Neva Baikal Shuttle launched
Russian transport company Fesco has introduced a regular container train from St. Petersburg to Irkutsk near Lake Baikal. The Neva Baikal Shuttle takes six days to reach its destination at the Irkutsk – Sortirovochniy railway station. The weekly service is expected to transport... more
Overtime on the last weekend
More chances to see the last MD-11F registered in Europe in service are coming this weekend. Lufthansa Cargo, which has gradually replaced its triple-jet aircraft with B777Fs, has announced that, although the last flight of D-ALCC was scheduled for today, 15 October 2021, the... more
Black Sea permits doubled
Member states of the Black Sea Economic Cooperation Organisation (BSEC) that are involved in the region’s truck transit permit system have agreed to significantly increase permit quotas for 2022, the International Road Union (IRU) reported. At a meeting in Istanbul and... more
Deugro Group picks Christian Schulz
On 1 October Christian Schulz was appointed vice-president of global business development, thermal power and renewables for the Deugro Group, a German transport services provider and oversized and heavy cargo specialist made up of four independent companies. Schulz has over 20... more
Adopting hydrogen as universal fuel
Universal Hydrogen, founded last year in Los Angeles, has executed a letter of intent (LoI) with ASL Aviation Holdings, a global aviation services group based in Dublin, Ireland. ASL will be a global launch customer for the turboprop cargo market and plans to purchase up to... more
The Swiss "Briese"
Swiss investors are playing their part. Briese Schiffahrt (Schweiz), the Swiss branch of the German company of the same name, recently placed its first newbuild multi-purpose vessel «BBC Ukraine», which is part of a series of ten Briese F-500 multi-purpose vessels commissioned... more
E-truck covers 500 km on one battery
In Lucerne (Switzerland) the four partners – Friderici Spécial, Avesco Rent, Galliker Transport, the Designwerk Group / Futuricum – recently presented two fully electrified tractor-trailers. The four parties were unified by their plans to build a zero-emissions truck. Now two... more
Delta's response for Columbia
Delta recently shipped its 4 millionth Covid-19 vaccine dose from USA to Colombia. Rob Walpole, VP Delta Cargo: "These vaccine shipments to Latin America are part of our continued focus on the safe and reliable transportation of these critical vaccines in the USA and... more
Coalition for an ammonia-based engine
It is their first joint project for ammonia conversion: technology group Wärtsilä and Norwegian ship owner Eidesvik Offshore have signed a partnership aimed at converting an offshore supply vessel (OSV) to operate with an ammonia-fuelled combustion engine. The partners have set... more