Alliance to ship vaccines 
The global airline alliance Skyteam Cargo has launched "V Excellence", which covers the transport of Covid-19 shipments moved under the members' product family "customised vaccines", offering priority handling, and "specialised pharma", the solution... more
EVP to expand intermodal segment
Milestone Equipment Holdings, which offers transportation equipment leasing solutions, has hired Phil Shook as executive vice president, domestic intermodal, effective immediately. He will lead the expansion of Milestone’s domestic intermodal segment and oversee other marketing... more
Grocery retailer to go electric
Volvo Trucks is supplying a fully electric truck to ICA Sweden, as it begins its transition towards electric transport. The truck will deliver refrigerated goods in the Stockholm city area. Apart from being fossil free, the Volvo FL and Volvo FE Electric vehicle... more
Laso's transport for Leixoes
Laso Transportes, a Portuguese road haulier specialising in the transport of conventional goods and project cargo, recently took on a challenging assignment for its client Central de Cervejas in Santarém, 70 km from Lisbon. Some of the cargo exceeded 5.50 m in width. The... more
Crew crisis on the rise again?
Shipping companies fear that the number of seafarers affected by the crew change crisis is on the rise due to travel restrictions imposed by governments to combat the new variants of the virus. The latest industry analyses show that 200,000 seafarers are currently affected, a... more
"Curiosity of the Day" 
Biochemical research shows that people can be “hangry”, that is hungry and aggressive, at the same time. more
Ghana's FRU and FSU classified
The Torman LNG floating regasification unit (FRU) has been inspected and classified in sheltered waters at Tema port, Ghana, by Bureau Veritas (BV). The unit is combined with a floating storage unit (FSU) for the delivery of gas to onshore consumers. The 95 m long, newly... more
Much better than expected
Europe’s ports experienced 2020’s ’annus horribilis’ in many different ways. Only Antwerp improved; Algeciras maintained its throughput. In the end box volumes were better than most had expected. more
Overnight network grows
Railfreight company DB Cargo has been operating its door-to-door service EVplus between Hamburg and Cologne (Germany) since summer 2020. Seven new domestic routes will be added this year.The Hamburg–Mannheim, Hamburg–Berlin, Hamburg–Stuttgart and Bremen–Stuttgart connections... more
Newbuild for DShip Carriers
Hamburg-based DShip Carriers has added a F-500 vessel to its fleet. The ‘MV Charlie’ was launched at the beginning of March. It is equipped with two Liebherr cranes, featuring a lifting capacity of 250 t each, and has a deadweight of 12,385 t.Utilising energy-saving technology,... more