Abu Dhabi: pact for new rail logistics facilities 
UAE-based Etihad Rail has signed a MoU with Zones Corp to establish railway and logistics facilities within Abu Dhabi's industrial city (ICAD). The projects will serve industrial entities in the ICAD and Mussafah, and provide a point of departure for goods bound for Saudi... more
Emirates - 20 years of ops to Lahore and Islamabad
Emirates is celebrating 20 years of operations in Lahore and Islamabad, two of Pakistan’s most populous cities. The locations are important cargo destinations for the airline as it carried over 123,962 t of cargo in the last five years. Key exports and imports include fresh... more
Great Yarmouth upgrades port equipment
The port of Great Yarmouth has received a new crane with an 84 t lifting capacity for handling larger cargoes on England's east coast. The LHM280 crane – purchased from Liebherr by the port owner Peel Ports Group, – also shortens loading/unloading processes. For the offshore... more
Donald Pilz shoulders leadership of Nox Group
Donald Pilz has been recruited as the new CEO of the overnight express provider Nox. He succeeds Carsten Mehler. Pilz, who has 25 years of experience in the B2B and B2C sectors, was most recently CEO Hermes Europe. Alongside the leadership change, the Nox Group is banking on... more
BGL: Tyrol’s anti-transit plan may infringe EU law
The Tyrolean government is planning to substantially tighten the sectoral truck driving ban on the most important north-south transit route through Austria. Goods that could be sent as railfreight were banned from using the Inn valley motorway in Tyrol four years ago. The... more
Strong year for Europa Showfreight
Europa Showfreight, a division of UK-based Europa Worldwide, boosted its turnover by 30% and its overall profit by 17% in 2018. The team expects this year to be even more successful and is now looking to recruit new staff. Jeff Broom, Showfreight manager at Europa, said the... more
Handful of new managers at Gefco
After chalking up success in 2018, Gefco Freight Forwarding is now pushing ahead with its expansion plans and has signed on five new directors: Valentin Elistratov, commercial director, Karin Van Den Brekel, health logistics director, Katherine Shek, regional director Asia,... more
US air force back in Da Nang
US Air Force CV-22 Osprey tiltrotor aircraft landed in Vietnam for the first time ever earlier this month on their way from their Japanese base to military drills in Thailand. The units touched down in the coastal city of Da Nang, an important US military base in the 1960's... more
Pharma hauliers gearing up for diesel ban
Trans-o-flex (Germany) has ordered 240 new vans, trucks and trailers this year. The company made the EUR 10 million investment to modernise and expand its fleet, as well as to prepare for the forthcoming diesel fuel ban. Most of the new units have diesel engines, but they comply... more
APL unveils AAX2 service
The CMA CGM affiliate APL is set to launch a new weekly Asia Australia Express 2 (AAX2) service that will directly connect the Southeast Asian ports of Vietnam, Malaysia, Singapore and Indonesia to the Australian cities of Brisbane and Sydney. The AAX2 service is poised to... more