Cartonplast Group opens new site 
Cartonplast (CPL) has opened a new service and logistics centre in Schweitenkirchen (Bavaria, Germany). In July, the 5,000 sqm hall was rented and, after only three months of construction, the new location for the servicing of rentable reusable transport layer pads was put into... more
Hapag-Lloyd deploys more vessels in the East Med
Hapag-Lloyd will change its Levante Express Service (LEX) as from next year. As from the second calendar week in 2020, Hapag-Lloyd will add one additional vessel to the LEX service to ensure improved schedule reliability during the upcoming winter months. Hapag-Lloyd... more
India invests in its rail system on a grand scale
Indian Railways has initiated 498 railway projects of a total length of 49,069 km, which are at different stages of execution/planning/sanction. The commissioning of 8,979 km has been achieved. The plan includes 188 new line projects measuring 21,295 km in total, 55 gauge... more
Flying Whales and small AI-controlled airships
Québec intends to invest at least CAD 30 million (EUR 20 million) in the Flying Whales airship project in southwestern France and in a new local subsidiary, Les dirigibles Flying Whales Québec. The plan to invest public funds to open up remote areas of the Canadian province to... more
“Curiosity of the Day” 
Twelve states allow only military personnel to wear camouflage, for all other people such clothing is illegal. These countries are the Caribbean states of Antigua, Barbados, Grenada, Jamaica, Trinidad and Tobago and St. Lucia plus the Philippines, Saudi Arabia and Oman and the... more
bremenports improves its climate balance
Bremen’s ports have been able to reduce their emissions by 70% over the last eight years. The current aim is to make the port infrastructure completely C02 neutral by the end of 2023. The port management company bremenports drafted a sustainability strategy already in 2009.... more
Ekol Logistics and UBV join forces
Ekol and UBV have decided to take another step forward to strengthen their market position in Europe and have signed a long-term exclusive cooperation agreement. UBV is a large international groupage transportation company and Ekol Logistics is a 3PL company that specialises not... more
Steerprop appoints new CEO
Steerprop’s board of directors has appointed Riku-Pekka Hägg as the company’s new CEO. Hägg will assume his new role at the start of January 2020. As former vice president of ship design at Wärtsilä, Hägg brings decades of maritime technology know-how, digital and strategic... more
UIC: Railway safety achieves a record high
Rail transport is the safest mode of overland transport and is improving continuously in terms of safety, as the International Union of Railways (UIC) demonstrates in its latest report on railway accidents. Accidents and numbers of victims were reduced by almost 17% between... more
European transport to cumulate in Verona
The Interporto Quadrante Europa has great plans in the pipeline. It is set to invest EUR 59 million in its railway infrastructure that will bring new tracks, more trains and a position as one of the continent’s leading terminals. The facility is already very well developed... more