EMSA on ship calls during the pandemic 
The ports of Croatia, Iceland, Slovenia and Spain are statistically the ones that have suffered the most from the decrease in the number of ship calls throughout the European Union, Norway, Iceland and the United Kingdom since the end of July due to the pandemic. According... more
Drones to support sick children in Rome
The Italian aerospace, defence and security company Leonardo, satellite services provider Telespazio and Bambino Gesù Children’s Hospital are testing the use of drones for biomedical material delivery. Biological samples and biomedical products were recently transported for... more
Swiss manufacturer wins big UK deal
Swiss manufacturer Wascosa has signed a significant wagon lease contract with Network Rail, the infrastructure manager of Britain's rail network. Under the lease, Wascosa will provide 570 wagons, which will be built by Greenbrier Europe and serviced in partnership with rail... more
C. H. Robinson tackling the times
C. H. Robinson has published its figures for Q3/2020 and the months from January till September 2020 - and they are on the positive side. In Q3/2020, the 3PL's revenues increased by 9.6% to USD 4.2 billion compared to the same period in 2019, due to higher prices in some fields... more
New CFO for BLG Logistics
Jens Bieniek, chief financial officer of BLG Logistics, will step down and be replaced by Christine Hein. At the beginning of the year, Bieniek took the decision to leave his position as BLG's CFO and chose Hein to take over his office. From the end of the year, Hein will... more
Sri Lankan logistics and Singapore technology
The Sri Lankan logistics group John Keells Logistics (JKLL) will leverage Infor Warehouse Management Systems (WMS) and Infor Birst to digitise its logistics value chain. JKLL is a subsidiary of John Keells Holdings, Sri Lanka's largest listed conglomerate group, and a... more
Air cargo makes a strong comeback
Together with the Houston office of the Germany-based heavylift expert Deugro Group, Deugro Air Chartering recently executed the transport of oversized compressor equipment from Cologne to Minneapolis. Initially, it was planned to ship the cargo by sea, but due to the impact... more
US short-line railroad modernises its track
The Nebraska, Kansas & Colorado Railway (NKCR), a short-line railway managed by Omnitrax, has received a USD 4.5 million grant from the US department of transportation. The grant will fund the renovation of more than 160 km of track in western Nebraska and eastern Colorado.... more
World trade on the rise
The container throughput index of the German RWI – Leibniz institute for economic research and the institute of shipping economics and logistics (ISL) showed a robust improvement in September, rising from (corrected) 116.5 to 119.7 points. The uptick was felt in Chinese... more
Zero waste world
Chep has bolstered the initiative for a waste-free supply chain by creating the new position of senior director zero waste world (ZWW) and customer innovation & solutions in Europe. Katrin Zeiler, who recently worked for DHL and who joined Chep in April 2020, will take over... more