Aercaribe revives Ecuadorian airport 
Hard times came to an end for Latacunga Airport (LTX) when a first charter flight, operated by the Colombian airline Aercaribe Cargo, landed there last week. The facility, which has the second longest runway in Ecuador, had had no commercial flight operations since 2017.... more
Promotion on two fronts at Kukla
Robert Kukla, a Munich-based forwarding company, has granted Axel Bohnensteffen and Daniel Comi full power of attorney. The trained forwarder merchant and business economist Bohnensteffen, who has been with Kukla since summer 2016, manages the company’s multimodal transport... more
New package delivery facility in Houston
The new UPS Willowbrook package delivery facility in northwest Houston has created 575 new full and part-time jobs. Now operating at full capacity, the platform significantly increases UPS’s delivery fleet serving Houston TX, the USA's fourth most populated city. Home to the... more
Railrunner Europe slides into the doldrums
Railrunner Europe, a subsidiary of the US-based company Railrunner, is in financial difficulties. The bankruptcy court of Hamburg has already appointed a preliminary insolvency administrator. The intermodal operator said its financial melt-down was caused by... more
2018 good for port of Lubeck
Lübecker Hafen-Gesellschaft (LHG), operator of the port of Lubeck (Germany), was able to boost its 2018 throughput by 1.2% to around 22.1 million t. The container handling sector noted an almost 4% increase. Ro-ro traffic (about 730,000 units) made the biggest contribution... more
Transatlantic partners moving to new LHR premises
Virgin Atlantic Cargo and Delta Cargo are to move into the new purpose-built Dnata City East at London Heathrow airport. Scheduled for H2/2019, the move supports the airlines’ growing cargo businesses, enhances their transatlantic partnership for customers and future-proofs the... more
Panalpina strengthens marketing and sales in Europe
Christian Stingl has joined Panalpina as regional head of marketing and sales for Europe. Stingl will be based in Frankfurt and report directly to the regional CEO Europe with a dotted line to the chief commercial officer. Stingl is a results-driven senior executive with... more
Fewer missing links in supply chain
Cargo-partner now offers its own purchase order management service. The Austrian logistics company says it will use it to ensure that customers’ deliveries arrive on time and complete - regardless of whatever transport service providers are involved. If a delivery is delayed... more
Eddie Stobart to extend UK rail offering
Eddie Stobart Logistics (ESL) intends to launch a new rail service from the port of Tilbury to Daventry (both UK). The new offer will be the only rail operation from the port for inbound traffic – with a forecast capacity of 200 containers a week. Within a matter of weeks... more
Belfast Container Terminal orders new RGTs
The Belfast Container Terminal (BCT) in Northern Ireland has ordered eight automated rubber-tyred gantry cranes (AutoRTGs) from Kalmar. Delivery is scheduled to commence at the end of 2019. BCT is owned by and located in Belfast Harbour and is operated under concession by... more