USA: more than 6,000 vehicles to join natural gas fleet 
UPS plans to purchase more than 6,000 natural gas-powered trucks beginning in 2020 and running through 2022. This three-year commitment represents a USD 450 million investment in expanding the company’s alternative fuel and advanced technology vehicle fleet as well as supporting... more
Europa starts work on GBP 60 million logistics project
Work has started on Europa Worldwide Group’s new GBP 60 million, future-proofed 66,425 sqm logistics facility. Based at Midlands Logistics Park in Corby (Northants, UK), the scheme is due for completion in June 2020. The site will become Europa’s largest facility in the UK and... more
Atran Airlines grows fleet to six full freighters
Atran Airlines, the Russian air express carrier within Volga-Dnepr Group, has enlarged its fleet to six freighters with the deployment of the second Boeing 737-800BCF. Following on from the success of effective operations of its first B737-800BCF which was delivered earlier... more
Free passage restored for 15,000 vessels a year
Since the beginning of October, the deepening of the inland waterway Nieuwe Waterweg and Botlek has been completed. One of the busiest waterways in the Netherlands has been deepened by a metre and half across a distance of 25 km. The contractors Van der Kamp and Boskalis... more
Rainer Liebhart to manage air cargo logistics
Rainer Liebhart is taking over the leadership of the restructured air cargo logistics business unit at Lufthansa Industry Solutions (LHIND) with immediate effect. Liebhart replaces Peter Rothenberger, who is taking early retirement at the end of the year after almost 30 years of... more
Shipowners better prepared for sulphur cap than expected?
The Palau International Ship Registry (PISR) has completed a survey on the upcoming IMO 2020 sulphur regulation. During the survey, more than 44% of the member shipowners, operators and managers confirmed that they will definitely comply with the forthcoming IMO regulations.... more
New Street Scooters with a higher additional load
Street Scooter has presented the follow-up version of its fully electric utility vehicles “WORK” and “WORK L” in Germany. The new vehicle generation of the two Street Scooters “WORK” and “WORK L” is particularly attractive with the additional load capacity of more than one tonne... more
Panattoni invests in Leipzig
Panattoni Europe has signed a contract of cooperation with Invest Region Leipzig GmbH and the district town of Schkeuditz (Germany). The partners have decided to pool their expertise with regard to the development and marketing of the Panattoni Park Leipzig Airport. By the... more
Salzburg airport makes a stand
Last week’s meeting of the federal association of logistics Austria (Bundesvereinigung Logistik Österreich, BVL) at Salzburg airport focused on the future challenges of the airfreight industry. Managing director Bettina Ganghofer used the opportunity to present the handling of... more
First flat rail operation in the Philippines
Subic operation Subic Bay International Terminal (Sbitc), a unit of the Philippines-headquartered International Container Terminal Services (ICTSI), operating at the Subic Bay Freeport, recently handled the first flat rail operation in the Philippines with the loading of a new... more