Lulu Group opens facility in Milan 
Lulu Group has officially opened its sourcing, food processing & export hub in Italy. Located at the World Trade Centre near Malpensa Airport in Milan, the facility will focus on sourcing, processing, storing, packaging, and exporting of food products from Italy to more than... more
Like a fish out of water 
Swiss lake-hopping. Trucks don’t cross the waters and ships don’t travel over land. Sometimes, however, this logic is undermined. For example, when a shipping line operating on one Swiss lake, the 24 km2 Walensee, buys a unit from a shipping line active on another one, the 38... more
Three roundtrips between Brwinow and Rotterdam
The Swiss intermodal provider Hupac is expanding its business by increasing the number of direct services from its Brwinow terminal near Warsaw, Poland to Rotterdam in the Netherlands. With easy connections to/from the UK, Ireland and Portugal, the shuttle train will run... more
A 16,000 sqm warehouse in Cameroon
A.P. Moller – Maersk has opened a warehousing & distribution facility in Douala, Cameroon. The site will be spread over 16,000 sqm, providing for dry warehousing and distribution. As a bonded facility, it will also provide for the storage of cargo in the customs... more
Austria names successor to Hercules
At a press conference, Austria's defence minister Klaudia Tanner and major general Harald Vodosek announced that all further plans for the successor to the C-130 "Hercules" will focus on the Embraer C-390. The C-130 "Hercules" has been in service at in the... more
Locomotive fleet grows to 36 Vectrons
The Polish locomotive leasing company Cargounit has ordered up to 30 Vectron MS locomotives from Siemens Mobility. The framework agreement includes the delivery of ten units by the end of 2023 and an option for 20 additional locomotives by 2024 as well as maintenance services.... more
JKL Partners sets its sights on HMM
While international investors for the carrier HMM have been excluded by the authorities, the domestic bidders need to demonstrate that they have funding available. The respective sums are a prerequisite for the entry as an investor. After forming a consortium with Harim... more
Dokasch TS expands its business in India
India’s pharmaceutical industry ranks third worldwide in terms of pharmaceutical production by volume, the Indian government says. Dokasch Temperature Solutions has now appointed James Savio as business development manager India to strengthen its position in this important... more
Amsterdam Airport Schiphol: no time to waste
Amsterdam Airport Schiphol and its cargo partners are combatting long truck wait times at the hub through the introduction of a new smart cargo main port programme initiative, “Digital Planning”, for which key players in Schiphol’s air freight chain signed a best effort... more
Faster and more cost-effective than rail and air
A new TIR route bridges the gap between China’s east coast and Central Asia and connects Uzbekistan to China’s coastal city of Qingdao. The first convoy, including Uzbek TIR trucks carrying blackcurrants, recently completed the maiden run from Samarkand to Qingdao passing... more