H.Esser moves into Italy's healthcare market 
Logistics provider H.Essers is acquiring Romano Transporti. The Italian road haulage company operates nationally and internationally with a special focus on the healthcare sector. For H.Essers, the takeover is part of its strategy to expand its healthcare logistics network in... more
Four American carriers launch new rail service
In response to customer demand, Union Pacific Railroad (UP) has started a new domestic intermodal service connecting Mexico’s growing industrial market to Florida, North Carolina, and other US markets. The new service is operated in partnership with Mexico-based Ferromex,... more
U-Freight: more robots in Hong Kong hub
The Hong Kong based company U-Freight has expanded the autonomous mobile robot (AMR) and intelligent racking system in its warehouse. 1,115 sqm of the company’s e-commerce fulfilment centre in Kwai Chung have been equipped with an AMR and intelligent racking system, and... more
Good news from Hong Kong
Airport Authority Hong Kong (AAHK) has released the air traffic figures for Hong Kong International Airport (HKIA) for September 2023. HKIA handled 3.3 million passengers and 24,190 flight movements during the month. Cargo throughput continued to grow in September,... more
Quicker handling of goods trains
The European wagon hire company VTG will be using the PJ Monitoring's (PJM) automatic brake testing system for handling goods trains in future. The new system will bring enormous efficiency gains, VTG says. For a 500 m long goods train, manual checks of the brakes take around 40... more
New president for Wiggins Airways
Ameriflight has appointed Paul Halter, vice president of airline operations at Ameriflight, as new president for its wholly-owned subsidiary, Wiggins Airways. This leadership change comes after current Wiggins Airways president, Donna Nixon, announced her retirement after 36... more
Stef publishes its trimester results
Stef, a provider of temperature-controlled transport and logistics services for food products, has announced sales of EUR 959 million for Q3/2023, a drop of 1.3%. For Stef France, volumes handled in the fresh flow and supermarket segments continued to contract. The seafood... more
Drydocks World's LNG vessel conversion
Drydocks World, a DP World subsidiary, has successfully converted two Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) vessels, the ‘Tango Floating Liquefied Natural Gas’ (FLNG) and ‘Excalibur Floating Storage Unit’ (FSU), to enhance LNG production off the coast of the Republic of Congo. The... more
A direct connection with KN
Providing direct access to its products and services and extensive global network, Emirates SkyCargo is now available on Kuehne + Nagel’s internal booking engine. This milestone marks the first time Emirates SkyCargo has made its services available via a freight forwarders’... more
RCG increases activity in agricultural sector
The Austrian carrier ÖBB Rail Cargo Group (RCG) has started to transport sugar beets to the factories of the sugar manufacturer Agrana in Tulln and Leopoldsdorf in Lower Austria. Sugar beets are collected and loaded onto trains at nearly 36 pick-up points all over Austria,... more