Duisport moves into packaging 
Duisburger Hafen (Duisport) is expanding its industrial packaging portfolio and taking over RK Verpackungssysteme with retroactive effect from 1 January. The Duisport Group will benefit from RK’s 60-year expertise in this market. RK has 60 employees and runs a 16,000 sqm... more
Regional shifts reshape global port rankings
The latest Container Port Performance Index (CPPI) published by the World Bank and S&P Global Market Intelligence highlights significant shifts in global container port performance, with East and Southeast Asian ports dominating the top rankings for 2023, securing 13 of the... more
STG Logistics bolsters leadership team
STG Logistics has appointed Tyler Holtgreven (lrft) to the role of chief financial officer (CFO) and Vince Paperiello (right) as its new senior vice president of intermodal operations. As CFO, Holtgreven will return to his finance and accounting roots. After graduating from... more
eTTS now run in New Jersey terminal
APM Terminals Elizabeth in New Jersey (USA) is progressing its green transformation thanks to an USD 1.4 million grant from the US environmental protection agency. With the grant, APM has replaced seven diesel terminal vehicles with seven electric terminal tractors (eTTs).... more
Based in Basingstoke
After twelve months of construction, Glencar has completed a 19,417 sqm hub in Basingstoke, which is intended as a logistics facility for longstanding customers and partners. The building has a 15 m clear internal height, 19 dock doors, and almost 1,022 sqm of office space.... more
Two more eco-friendly mega vessels
Orient Overseas Container Line has put two new 24,188 teu mega vessels, "OOCL Finland" and "OOCL Sweden," into service, marking a milestone in the company's fleet upgrade. With these additions, the carrier has received ten eco-friendly mega containerships of... more
An exclusive cargo GSSA for Cambodia Angkor Air
Effective 1 June 2024, Aeroprime Group has been appointed as the exclusive ‘cargo general sales and service agent’ (GSSA) for Cambodia Angkor Air, Cambodia’s flag carrier. Currently, the airline has a fleet comprising A320, A321, and ATR aircraft, serving over eleven... more
Changes at the HHM’s office in Hungary
Krisztina Kovacs (second from left) is retiring after 13 years as head of the HHM representative office in Budapest. She learnt her trade at a Hungarian freight forwarding company before moving to the Multimar shipping agency. "We would like to thank Kovacs, who has... more
Investing in Kumamoto
ESR Group and the Kumamoto prefectural government in Japan have signed an mou with the aim of transforming Yatsushiro City into a key logistics location for the region. Under the agreement, the group will work with the prefecture, the city as well as Mercury Capital to... more