Aramex forms strategic partnership with Transportr 
Aramex and Transportr, a digital freight platform in the UAE, have signed a service level agreement whereby Aramex will secure the best possible agreements in terms of rates and transit time, and ensure optimum efficiency for sea freight logistics. The partnership comes in... more
Freja adds 75 trailers
Freja has invested in 75 new Schmitz Cargobull Telematik curtain trailers from Tip Trailer Services. 50 of the vehicles are intended for Freja in Poland, and the remaining 25 for UK traffic. Poland has become an important expansion area for Freja with the new logistics... more
Port of Rotterdam picks COO
Boudewijn Siemons has been appointed as the new COO of the Port of Rotterdam Authority as of 1 October. He will also be joining the Port Authority’s executive board. Siemons succeeds Ronald Paul in this role. Until recently, Siemons served as president of Royal Vopak’s... more
Fake Covid-19 protection items intercepted
After 20,000 counterfeit N95 masks arriving from Hong Kong had been seized by officers of the US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) earlier this month at Boston airport, their Chicago colleagues confiscated a shipment of 500,000 counterfeit N95 masks arriving from Shenzhen,... more
Digital solution in Antwerp goes live in 2021
On 1 January 2021, the port of Antwerp will launch "Certified-Pick-up" (CPu) an integrated digital solution for the release of containers. It will replace the current system of PIN codes. The new platform will guarantee a secure, transparent and optimised release... more
Koenig & Bauer Kammann banks on PSI software
Following the successful implementation of the PSIwms warehouse management system from PSI Logistics, Koenig & Bauer Kammann, a manufacturer of decoration machines, now runs the processes for warehousing and production supply in an integrated IT infrastructure at its new... more
Fesco introduces intermodal service for seafood
Russian transport company Fesco has launched a regular intermodal container service for seafood deliveries from the Russian Far East to Jilin province in China. The seafood is shipped in refrigerated containers by Fesco's regular services from Kamchatka, Magadan and Sakhalin... more
Gudrun Winner-Athens elected to Logistics Hall of Fame
The Logistics Hall of Fame has a new member: Gudrun Winner-Athens. The managing partner of Spedition Winner and long-standing chairwoman of the advisory board of Kombiverkehr is regarded in Germany and Europe as a pioneer of intermodal transport. “Gudrun Winner-Athens has... more
"Curiosity of the Day" 
Whenever a pope dies he is hit on the head three times with a special silver hammer, just to make sure. more
AEO certification for Safram France
From now on, all Safram's French subsidiaries hold the authorised economic operator (AEO) certification, following the example of the company's Paris branch, which was certified already in 2016. AEO status guarantees the security of international supply chains and... more