New president for Gefco France
Gefco, a global partner in multimodal supply chain solutions and finished vehicle logistics, has named Vittorio Battaglia new president of Gefco France and member of the group's executive board. Previously, he was general director of transport of the FM Logistics Group. With... more
MOL: corona case closed
The "Vega Dream", owned and managed by the Japanese Mitsui O.S.K. Lines, Ltd. (MOL), with a crew of twenty members, sailed from the Philippines on 6 November, after completion of vessel sanitisation and crew change. By 12 October, the capesize bulker had seven crew... more
Two A350s packed with relief goods
Ethiopian Airlines and Airbus transported humanitarian goods on board two new Airbus A350-900s, delivered to the East African carrier on 6 November 2020. The humanitarian shipment took off from Toulouse for Addis Ababa loaded with approximately 5 t of cargo, consisting of... more
Leadership succession plan
Alaska Air Group's board of directors has announced a leadership change: Ben Minicucci (right) will assume the role of the group's CEO on 31 March 2021, succeeding Brad Tilden (left), who served as CEO for eight years and who will continue as board chair. Patricia Bedient,... more
Bolloré creates task force for vaccines
As preparation for the arrival of 15 billion doses of vaccines against Covid-19, Bolloré Logistics has founded a “task force” to design logistics solutions allowing to distribute these vaccines once they are placed on the market. The controlled-temperature transport of... more
Agility's business in recovery
Kuwait-headquartered logistics provider Agility has reported its figures for January to September 2020. During these nine months, revenues moved sideways, by 0.7% less to KWD 1.2 billion (3.93 USD), but net profit shrank by 50.4% to KWD 31.5 million (USD 103.1 million) compared... more
114,000 t of CO2 emissions saved
Swedish carrier Green Cargo has been transporting freight for the Nordic energy group St1 across Sweden for 25 years. During this period, almost 11,000,000 t of freight were delivered from St1 in Gothenburg to depots in Jönköping and Karlstad. Through 25 years of... more
Rayyan Air charters PIA "preighter"
As part of an agreement signed at the end of last month, the privately-owned Pakistani carrier Rayyan Air is chartering one of Pakistan International Airlines' (PIA) twelve B777 passenger aircraft for freight purposes. The airline headquartered in Islamabad, in cooperation... more
Vectron Dual Mode authorised in Germany
Siemens’ Vectron Dual Mode locomotive has received authorisation for operation in Germany from the Federal Railway Authority (EBA). To date, over 100 combined diesel and electric locomotives have already been ordered, Siemens said. Around 60% of the German rail network is... more