US short line railroad changes hands 
Omnitrax and West Virginia’s department of transportation have concluded a takeover of the South Branch Valley Railroad (SBVR), making the entity the 26th railroad in the Omnitrax network. SBVR has thus joined the economic powerhouse Winchester and Western Railroad (WW) in the... more
Cargo handling for new carrier at CGN
Maersk Air Freight has awarded a multi-year contract to Dnata in Germany. Dnata will handle around 6,000 t of cargo annually for the new air cargo player, which currently operates weekly flights between Cologne Bonn (CGN, Germany) and Greenville Spartanburg (GSP, USA), with a... more
Energy shock easing, according to RWI / ISL
The RWI / ISL Container Throughput Index, a measure of global trade activity, decreased slightly in October to a seasonally-adjusted 125 points. This slight decline follows a period of recovery from the impacts of energy price shocks. Chinese ports experienced minor... more
A new fulfilment hub in Hesse
From March Hermes Fulfilment will take over storage and dispatch of goods for the Otto Group from a new location in Hesse (Germany). Hermes Fulfilment launched its ‘F2X’ IT and logistics platform in spring 2023. The software solution makes it possible to connect external... more
Niels Kröning takes the lead
Swissport Losch Munich will be managed by Niels Kröning from 1 January 2024. The 45-year-old lawyer has several years of management experience in aviation companies. Throughout his career he's acquired expertise in fields such as general management, strategic financial... more
Chinese cars travel multimodally to the Urals
The specialists from RZD Logistics (RZDL) handled a recent car transport on a special route by ship, rail and truck. A batch of 28 wagons was loaded into 40 ft containers and shipped by sea from Shanghai (China) to Vladivostok (Russia), where the containers were transferred... more
Carriers face post-boom dip
In Q3/2023, major shipping lines experienced significant year-on-year revenue declines, with the least contraction being –51.8%. This downturn aligns with pre-pandemic levels when viewed against 2019 figures, however, suggesting the recent declines are a correction from the... more
When medicine becomes dangerous
On 20 November the USA's Customs and Border Protection agency (CBP) inspected a shipment that had arrived from Hong Kong and was manifested as vaginal tightening gel. The shipment was found to contain commercial quantities of a gel inside injectables and required the user to... more
Peaking for a weather research station
One of the most modern weather stations in the world is being built atop the Zugspitze, 2962 m above sea level and Germany's highest mountain. A spectrometer and other sensitive equipment weighing 1.4 t were recently brought to the research station by DSV. Dennis Kessler, the... more
From Adidas to Tompkins Solutions
Tompkins Solutions, a supply chain consulting and material handling integration firm, has announced that Carmen Zinner has joined the company as an account executive. In this role Zinner will be in charge of collaborating with the leadership team to conceptualise and... more