Liz Sumner joins Bifa 
For the third year in a row, the British International Freight Association (Bifa) has expanded its training team with the appointment of Liz Sumner as trainer – freight and customs procedures. In 2019 Bifa has seen demand for its freight and customs training courses hit a record... more
Trying out regular TIR transports in Central Asia
The ministries of transport of Uzbekistan, Tajikistan and China have joined forces to assess regular TIR transits along a key Central Asian trade corridor. A caravan of six trucks – two from each nation involved – set off last week from Termez, Uzbekistan, heading for transit... more
Four new services raise throughput in port of Hamburg
In the first half of 2019, the port of Hamburg raised its container throughput by 7.5% to 4.7 million teu. This upswing is due to the four new liner services that were introduced between Hamburg and ports in the USA, Canada and Mexico at the beginning of this year. Now a total... more
DSV completes acquisition of Panalpina
Yesterday, 19 August 2019, DSV completed all transactions with regard to the previously announced public exchange offer for all publicly held shares of Panalpina. Pending the approval at an extraordinary general meeting, DSV will change its registered name to “DSV Panalpin”. As... more
Emirates Skycargo wins award in Kuala Lumpur
Emirates SkyCargo, the freight division of Emirates, was presented with the award for "Best Customer Airline 2018" by the ground handling division of MAB Kargo for having transported the largest volume of air cargo from Kuala Lumpur International Airport (Malaysia)... more
New appointments to the Baltic Index Council
The Baltic Exchange has announced two new appointments to the Baltic Index Council (BIC), the governing body which provides effective scrutiny of the Baltic on all aspects of its benchmark determination process in accordance with the Iosco principles of financial benchmarks.... more
New service sets sail from Asia to the US Gulf region
The Mediterranean Shipping Company (MSC), Maersk and ZIM have launched a new joint service from Asia to the US Gulf. The new service deploys ten ships of 4,500 teu capacity on the following rotation: Xiamen (China) – Yantian (China) – Busan (South Korea) – (Panama Canal transit)... more
New IT solution for Swiss carrier
Swiss rail services are efficient and reliable – just like Swiss freight transport: to plan, dispatch and deploy trains and staff, SBB Cargo uses the integrated standard solution IVU.rail from IT specialist IVU Traffic Technologies. The Swiss Federal Railways subsidiary is now... more
Tigers South Africa opens e-commerce hub as demand soars
Tigers South Africa has officially opened an e-commerce centre at its Johannesburg (South Africa) facility, as the online retail market continues to grow globally. The centre is equipped with the Tigers-developed Scanpak app that allows staff to conduct scan checks while packing... more
Nexxiot and Unilode launch joint digitisation project
Nexxiot, a Switzerland-based enabler of the digitised supply chain, is now an official partner of Unilode Aviation Solutions. The aim of this cooperation is to implement a globally unique project: the entire fleet of Unilode's ULDs (125,000) is to be equipped with Bluetooth... more