EUR 1 billion for ammonia 
Ammonia is the Grimaldi Group’s the next big project in its strategy to upgrade its own fleet. The shipping company has ordered the construction of five new PCTCs (pure car truck carriers) with the shipyard China Merchants Heavy Industries Jiangsu. The agreement foresees an... more
Best week ever for grain movement
During the week of 16 October 2022, Canadian National Railways (CN) moved over 806,000 t of grain from Western Canada, exceeding its previous record by over 50,000 t. The result represents the best week ever for grain movement, CN said. This record also comes on the heels of... more
MOL's diversification policy scores
In Japan, the Daibiru Corporation, a real estate company and affiliate of MOL, has concluded a contract to acquire trust beneficiary rights for a partial equity interest in the facility ‘Otemachi First Square’. In its portfolio strategy, the company defined the hedging of... more
"Curiosity of the Day" 
The air you expel during a moderate coughing fit has a volume of about two litres. more
Uwe Kilian named key account manager
Volvo Trucks Switzerland has announced changes in its sales team for October 2022: Alfred Leuenberger, key account manager, who has played a key role in the sales team over the past few years, will retire on 31 October 2022. Volvo Trucks Switzerland praised Leuenberger’s... more
Airfreight partners to connect in the clouds
The Singapore-based digital enabler Cargo Ai and Chain.io, a US cloud-base integration platform, have formed a strategic technology partnership. The aim is to allow most large and medium-sized freight forwarders on Chain.io’s network to easily connect to Cargo Ai’s platform to... more
Increasing space for e-commerce handling
In Germany, the symbolic ground-breaking ceremony gave Garbe Industrial Real Estate the go-ahead for the logistics centre that it is developing in Bodenheim (Mainz-Bingen district). The tenant of the property, which has a total area of 14,500 sqm, is Atrikom Fulfillment, a... more
Equipping 1,000+ rail cars for coal transports
DB Cargo is transporting coal by goods train to the power plant operator Steag in the German federal state of Saarland. The Bexbach power plant near Neunkirchen is thus one of the first large power plants to benefit from the recently created "priority corridors" for... more
More containers at Gothenburg
In Q3/2022, the Port of Gothenburg continued to expand its market share in Sweden as well as in comparison to nearby major ports in Northern Europe. The port currently holds a 53% share of the Swedish container market (+3%). In total, 655,000 teu were handled in 9M/2022,... more
Hand in hand in Houston
Logistics players depend on each other. Project logisticians in particular are on the look-out for airfreight capacities these days. On 28 September the Breakbulk Americas trade fair looked at what expiring production lines, destroyed freighters and a preponderance of general... more