New healthcare logistics centre 
Bolloré Logistics has opened its first national centre for healthcare products in Germany. The facility, located just 15 minutes from Frankfurt airport, covers around 1,900 sqm and houses the firm’s import and export activities. The platform has three temperature-controlled... more
Hydrogen locos to deliver coal
Canadian Pacific Kansas City (CPKC) and Teck have entered into a long-term rail agreement to transport steel-making coal from Teck’s four facilities in southeastern British Columbia (Canada). The companies, collaborating to promote green transport corridors and their shared... more
70th anniversary for Fischer & Rechsteiner
Fischer & Rechsteiner, an international shipping company based in Valmadrera, about 45 km northeast of Milan (Italy), celebrated its 70th anniversary on 29 April 2023. It carries on a tradition of a brand that appeared on the market more than a century and a half ago, in... more
New hangar for drone cargo tests in Alaska
Nenana airport is set to be home to a new 4,800 sqft hangar for the Alaska Center for Unmanned Aircraft Systems Integration (Acuasi). The hangar will serve as a base for drone cargo test flights between the city of Fairbanks and the city of Nenana (population around 400), around... more
"Curiosity of the Day" 
An irrational fear of your of relatives, be they closely or more distantly related, is called syngenesophobia. more
Manage supply chain risks with a PSA BDP tool
PSA BDP, a provider of integrated and port-centric supply chain and transport solutions. has launched its ‘Risk Monitor’, a digital tool that provides real-time supply chain visibility to customers through data analysis, also with the help of an add-on feature called ‘Smart... more
Havi with a new chair in Germany
On 1 May Stavroula Ekoutsidou became the new chair of the management board of Havi Germany, putting her in charge of the supply chain specialist’s entire German market. In addition to her role as chair of the German management board, Ekoutsidou is also vice-president in... more
Media logistician opens new site
The German company Twenty 5 Logistik (T5L) is expanding its portfolio in the field of media logistics with the publisher Neumann. The warehouse logistics provider from Gotha, in the central German state of Thuringia, recently took over the complete logistics for the publisher... more
A tipper in a patriotic royal look
Hopkins Estates, a property development, farming and real estate firm from Wincanton in the county of Somerset in the south of England, has taken delivery of a new Volvo FMX 420 8x4 tipper, wrapped in special livery to mark King Charles III’s recent coronation. The FMX... more
Intermodal service from Kaunas launched
Samskip has successfully completed the first trials for its new intermodal rail service from Kaunas in Lithuania. Together with its partner LTG Cargo, the transport company will now operate rail services between the Kaunas Intermodal Terminal and Samskip’s rail hub in Duisburg.... more