Agility believes in Victoria 
Kuwait-headquartered Agility will invest USD 35 million in Queen’s Gambit Growth Capital, a blank-check company that will target businesses offering sustainable solutions in a number of sectors, among them clean energy, healthcare, financial technology, industrials, mobility and... more
Sputnik V lands in La Paz
20,000 doses of the Sputnik V vaccine, “three times more than expected”, according to Bolivia’s president Luis Arce, arrived in the South American landlocked country last week. An aircraft of the state-owned airline Boliviana de Aviación brought the first delivery of the... more
Sealand: From Wilhelmshaven to Alexandria
Sealand, a Maersk company, has launched a new liner service. It connects Germany's only deep-water container port Wilhelmshaven with various destinations in the Eastern Mediterranean. From Wilhelmshaven, the vessels call at the ports of Limassol in Cyprus, Ashdod and Haifa... more
Jiménez to drive XPO's growth in Iberia
XPO Logistics has appointed Luis Miguel Jiménez as senior business development director, supply chain logistics – Iberia. He will be responsible for driving the transport and logistics solutions provider's business growth in Spain and Portugal, including the management of... more
"Curiosity of the Day" 
Alcoholic beverages like wine or whisky may be artificially aged with ultrasound. more
Alliance for e-truck leasing
Truck rental and consultancy company Fraikin Deutschland, winner of the “European transport award for sustainability 2020, and e-mobility specialist Quantron want to speed ahead with long-term lease services in 2021. The aim of their cooperation agreement is to introduce... more
Ipsen's integration completed
As of 1 February, Gebrüder Weiss adds Poland and Malaysia to the countries where the company operates under its own brand: the country organisations and the 126 employees taken over from Ipsen Logistics in late 2020 are now fully merged with the logistics provider’s corporate... more
Further routes from China to Finland
Nurminen Logistics’ Chinese container train traffic volumes tripled during 2020. To meet the increased demand, the company will open three new train routes from China to Finland with a Suzhou, Ningbo and Jinan line. On 19 January 2021, the first train left Suzhou bound for... more
If you're going to San Francisco...
The addition of Seattle from today, 1 February 2021 (followed by a fifth weekly flight to São Paulo four days later), Dallas and San Francisco (2 March) will take Emirates’ North American network to ten destinations following the resumption of services to Boston, Chicago,... more
Quietly and sustainably on track
Metrans has fitted its entire 3,000-container wagon fleet with what are known as “whispering” (composite) brakes. This means that the carrier has already implemented the ban on noisy freight trains in Germany. Metrans wagons are mostly lightweight flat wagons and especially... more