Italian forwarder offers new groupage services 
Transmec is strengthening its connections between Italy and Germany with new groupage services to and from Tuscany. First to be launched was a twice-weekly link between Prato, near Florence, and Stuttgart, while a second route between Prato and Frankfurt began recently. Run... more
Northern Sea Route traffic perks up - in LNG
According to news from the "Independent Barents Observer", the volume of goods shipped along the Northern Sea Route (NSR) is expected to reach 29 million t in the course of 2019, says Nikolay Monko, the head of Russia’s Northern Sea Route administration. According... more
Component support for China Cargo Airlines
China Cargo Airlines has entrusted Lufthansa Technik with the component support for three B747-400F. The five-year "total component support" agreement is the first major collaboration between the two companies and the MRO's first contract of this kind with a direct... more
New general managers in Belgium, Sweden and Denmark
Worldwide Flight Services (WFS) has strengthened its regional management team in EMEAA with the appointments of new general managers in Belgium and Scandinavia. Michel Fiorani joins WFS as general manager Belgium, based in Brussels. He has over 19 years’ experience in the air... more
“Curiosity of the Day” 
Originally, cacti grew only in the Americas – except for one of about 1,700 species. more
DP DHL Group plans to expand its packstation network
Deutsche Post DHL Group is investing in the expansion of its packstation network: by 2021, 3,000 new DHL packstations are to be added to the existing network of 4,000 automated parcel delivery and collection points. With these installed, the group will offer customers access to... more
Improving traffic flow between Mombasa and Nairobi
The African Development Bank Group has approved loans of EUR 209 million to fund the expansion of a highway that links major economic hubs in Kenya. The five-year project will convert the 84 km Kenol–Sagana–Marua road in central and eastern Kenya from a two-way single... more
K Line goes for artificial intelligence
The Japan-headquartered carrier K Line has reached an agreement with Hiroshima University, the National Institute of Maritime, Port and Aviation Technology (MPAT) and Marubeni Corporation (Marubeni) to jointly work on research and analysis of maritime logistics and shipping... more
Navigare necesse est
The German maritime industry is complaining about intensifying international competition – probably rightly so. In fact, Rotterdam and Antwerp have outpaced the German ports of Hamburg and Bremen in terms of growth. From a global perspective, however, national shipowners and... more
Boosting intermodal trade with new containers
By the end of this year, US transport company YRC and US class I railway BNSF will have taken aboard more than 600 branded intermodal containers. These new containers are part of the YRC commitment to acquire 1,000 branded intermodal containers by the end of 2020. Most of... more