"Curiosity of the Day" 
The first heart transplant in a dog was performed in Chicago in 1905. more
Contract extended to end of 2028 
The Worms (Germany)-based logistics company TST has extended the contract of managing director Marcel Bicking ahead of schedule until the end of 2028. Appointed to the management board by TST founder Frank Schmidt in 2020, Bicking is thus continuing his professional career... more
Rude Boy gets a ride home
Rude Boy has named XPO Logistics as its global forwarding partner and entrusted it with the transport of its iconic party bus to the Caribbean. The company expanded its ready-to-drink products to the UK in 2020, where XPO started to support its import operations from Trinidad.... more
New truck for HGV driving school
Stephan Jaeggi's new training vehicle is his third Renault T480 P4x2. The former professional driver has been training prospective truck drivers in theory and practice for categories C and E at his Jaeggi driving centre in Dottikon (Switzerland) since 2016. For categories B... more
Speeding up Channel crossings
P&O Ferries and Irish Ferries have announced a space charter agreement for the Dover-Calais route, providing more efficiency for ferry customers. Under this arrangement, passengers and freight will be offered the next available departure upon arrival at the port, regardless... more
CN opens intermodal terminal in Michigan
Target Steel, the first customer to use Canadian National Railway’s new transload facility in Flat Rock, Michigan, at the Canadian/US border, will convert a large part of its traffic for steel coils from trucks to rail. This shift is expected to reduce related greenhouse gas... more
A top-notch team
Silk Way West Airlines, an all-freighter cargo carrier based in Abidjan, recently celebrated its key contributors' long-standing partnership and achievements during a gala dinner held in Dubai. Globalink Logistics was recognised as the "top cargo contributor for the CIS... more
Making quality data useful to freight forwarders
Cargo Ai’s Cargomart booking platform now offers up-to-date performance transparency alongside real-time price and capacity information. Cargoquality is a new feature that takes industry-established quality monitoring methods, applies a fair, common standard to all airlines,... more
Clean truck express lane to power e-fleet
APM Terminals Los Angeles, Pier 400, is adding a second unique “clean truck express” lane. This comes as a regular customer at the terminal recently announced that it will increase add 50 heavy duty electric trucks to its fleet in Southern California (ITJ Daily, 13.5.2024).... more
GXO's newest robot fleet
GXO Logistics has put 500 autonomous mobile robots into service at one of its sites, aiming to enhance its operations for a sporting goods retailer. On 12,000 sqm at the hub, the robots are part of a tote-to-person solution and used for picking activities. They handle 70,000... more