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ID Logistics signs lease contract with Segro 
ID Logistics has signed a contract with real estate developer Segro to rent a facility in Tilburg in the Netherlands. The Segro logistics centre offers ID Logistics an area spanning 31,000 sqm, which will help the company to accelerate its growth. The companies are already... more
Mayotte's new port community system in operation
The Longoni port community in Mayotte, which is part of an archipelago in the Indian Ocean to the Northwest of Madagascar and the 101st department of France, is now connected to the cargo community systems Ci5 (see ITJ Daily of 28.08.2019). On-site training on 1 January 2020... more
Air cargo boom in greater L.A.
Located 60 km east of downtown Los Angeles and 40 km west of San Bernardino airport, Ontario International Airport (ONT) continued its run of growth in 2019, reporting more cargo activity with shipments of commercial freight up 5.1% (760,000 t). Commercial freight rose... more
Watch out: overloaded trucks could soon be caught on camera
Overloaded trucks represent a problem for road traffic. Excess loads increase the risk of traffic accidents and do great damage to roads and bridges. Accurate and reliable measurements of trucks’ axle loads are essential to monitor overloading and take whatever measures are... more
Flying paper from Ancona to Athens
Airnautic Italia, which won the tender launched by Cartiere Fedrigoni to send 84 t of paper bank destined for the Greek central bank, recently chartered a Magma Aviation B747-400F on the route between Ancona and Athens. The load was put onto 28 pallets and loaded on board... more
Starting the new year with new intermodal equipment
The delivery of newly built equipment for the intermodal pioneer Ambrogio Intermodal started at the beginning of January 2020: 45 multimodal chassis that can load several types of units (swap bodies, box containers, reefers); 30 innovative swap bodies for the transportation of... more
Basel-Mulhouse airport can count on express segment
With 48,000 t handled (+2% compared to 2018), express freight, an important area of activity at the binational Basel-Mulhouse airport (Euroairport), grew again in 2019, while cargo business (13,500 t) was down by 14%. The proportion of air freight transported by road feeder... more
Newly-adapted wagon fleet to transport aggregates
DB Cargo UK has made its first delivery of aggregate to the site of a new state-of-the-art asphalt facility under construction by Tarmac, at Washwood Heath, Birmingham. The city centre plant, which will provide essential materials to support the ongoing delivery of... more
MOL Logistics strengthens services in Thailand
MOL Logistics has announced that, from January this year, its subsidiary in Thailand (MLG Thailand) will take full control of the operations of its inland logistics and customs clearance business segment, which was developed by the company’s Thailand branch over many years, in a... more