"Curiosity of the Day" 
The real guava is the fruit with the highest vitamin C content. Just one half contains 377 mg of vitamin C and less than 69 calories. more
Design for ship running 100% on hydrogen 
Aurelia Green Ship Concept Design has won the Certificate of Approval in Principle issued by Rina for a ro-ro cargo vessel with electric propulsion using highly compressed H2 as fuel. Rina was founded in Genoa in 1861 under the name Registro Italiano Navale, one of the... more
Channel Tunnel: almost one million trucks
Le Shuttle Freight shipped 106,930 trucks in August 2022, an uptick of 1% compared to the 105,704 trucks in August 2021. Almost 1 million trucks have crossed the Channel aboard the shuttles since 1 January 2022. Compared to the same period last year truck volumes increased... more
AGI picks Olivier Bijaoui
Alliance Ground International (AGI) has reached an agreement with Olivier Bijaoui to act as advisor to help with the next phase of its expansion strategy to add passenger and cargo ground handling operations outside North America. Bijaoui has been a prominent figure in the... more
Western / Eastern quality standards
September will see a management change for Nippon Express Switzerland. It’s a generational changing of the guard. After eight years with Nippon Express Switzerland, Beat Högger is moving up to become the company’s chairman of the board of directors. He’s passing the operational... more
Honours for US truck drivers
During the National Truck Driver Appreciation Week (11 -17 September 2022) in USA, the multimodal transport company Container Port Group (CPG), along with American Trucking Associations (ATA) and the entire trucking industry, will thank the nearly 1,300 men and women who... more
Another freighter for Latam Cargo
Santiago (Chile)-based LAN Cargo is acquiring another aircraft and, as a result, Latam Cargo and its related carriers will end 2022 with a fleet of 16 B767 freighters. “This aircraft will allow us to continue strengthening our value proposition through a broader and deeper... more
New life for old batteries
Korean carmaker Kia and Deutsche Bahn (DB) have partnered to re-use used lithium-ion batteries from electric vehicles to create efficient and cost-effective energy storage systems for green electricity. For example, they can save surplus electricity from photovoltaic systems... more
Air cargo space to lease in Louisiana
Fourteen months after groundbreaking, Chennault International Airport (CWF) has completed a USD 4 million air cargo facility that is now available for lease. The speculative facility on the corridor between Houston and New Orleans includes an expandable 840 sqm-warehouse and an... more
Fifth warehouse in India
Maersk India has just opened a new warehouse in Bhiwandi on the outskirts of Mumbai. With a surface of 23,000 sqm, the new facility will be the company’s fifth warehouse inaugurated this year in India after Sikandrabad in Uttar Pradesh, Kolkata in West Bengal, and Pune and... more