RBH service to connect south China, Thailand and Vietnam 
ALP, the CMA CGM affiliate, will launch the Bangkok-Haiphong (RBH) service that will provide weekly connectivity between South China, Thailand and Vietnam. An express service from South China to Thailand, the RBH service will provide an alternative sailing option from Shekou... more
Christian Salcher manages cargo-partner's office in Tyrol
Christian Salcher has assumed his new responsibilities as area manager West Austria at cargo-partner. Since his father also worked in the freight forwarding business, Salcher learnt the basics of the trade at first hand. Before joining cargo-partner, the freight forwarding... more
Learning how to avoid truck congestion at Heathrow
CCS-UK User Group – the not-for-profit body which represents users of the UK’s air cargo community data system – is hosting a series of seminars to showcase its solution for streamlining collections and deliveries of airfreight at Heathrow’s cargo terminal. The first seminars... more
New superhub in Eindhoven
UPS has officially opened a new automated package sorting and delivery facility in Eindhoven (the Netherlands), which facilitates cross-border trade while enhancing package delivery services for small and large businesses. The 27,000 sqm superhub – approximately five... more
Regular weekly train connects Russia and China
Russia-based Fesco has expanded its network of overland export routes and launched a regular container train from Krasnoyarsk (Russia) to Beijing (China) via the Grodekovo (Primorsky Krai) / Sunfeihe (China) border check point. The route is served on a weekly basis. The... more
Starting to service B737NG in Siberia
Volga-Dnepr Technics Moscow (VDTM), provider of MRO services for foreign-made aircraft in Russia, has received the approval of the Bermuda civil aviation authority for B737NG maintenance at Krasnoyarsk airport (KJA, Russia). Due to this expansion, VDTM engineering personnel... more
Back to a rise in trade volumes in 2019?
According to the current flash estimate, the container throughput index of the RWI – Leibniz Institute for Economic Research and the Institute of Shipping Economics and Logistics (ISL) rose to 138.5 in May. Furthermore, the figure for April was revised from 134.7 to 137.4 – an... more
Streetscooter management gains new COO
On 1 July, Markus Doerr will assume the newly created position of COO at Streetscooter, a Deutsche Post subsidiary and manufacturer of electric commercial vehicles. As a new member of the senior management team, he will be responsible for production, procurement and quality at... more
“Curiosity of the Day” 
The first country to show a flying saucer on its postage stamp was Equatorial Guinea in 1975. more
Agility plans to invest in Togo
President Faure Gnassingbé of Togo was joined by former British prime minister Tony Blair to talk about economic development at the Togo-UK investment summit in London. Gnassingbé made his pitch to investors while announcing a new deal for a logistics hub in Lomé, after... more