100 years on European waterways 

The inland waterway shipping company, CSPL, an affiliate of Rhenus, is celebrating its centenary this year. The group was founded in the Czech town of Děčín, still its headquarters, 100 years ago. CSPL represents the entire shipping world in Czechia as no other firm can. It... more
ECS Group offers four new Flyone destinations 

The low-cost Moldovan airline Flyone, for which ECS Group provides total cargo management (TCM) services, recently added four new destinations to its network and now operates weekly A320 flights from Amsterdam (AMS) in The Netherlands, Barcelona (BCN) in Spain, Brussels (BRU) in... more
Soget: internships for Vietnamese students 

Soget, a software company based in Le Havre (France), offers third-year students from Vietnam an end-of-studies internship. This is part of an academic exchange programme made possible by the partnership between Soget, Danang University of Science and Technology and Logi Viet... more
New hub in the English Midlands 

Freight forwarder and logistics company Davies Turner is building another major logistics hub in UK and has acquired a new development site in the English Midlands for this purpose. The new 45,000 sqm multi-user logistics hub will be located close to both the M1 and M6... more
Freeports ahoy! 

The UK’s plans to create ‘freeports’, to boost post-Brexit trade and provide regional economic stimuli, is now up and running. The first hubs have opened for business. more
Extending and diversifying transport routes 

Metrans is launching a new regular service that will connect the Polish Port of Gdansk with Ostrava, North Moravia, one of Czechia’s major industrial agglomerations. The new train will expand the carrier’s activities in Poland and open upon up another major transport... more
Lucky Aviation makes Angolans happy 

Taag Angola Airlines has signed a commercial agreement with the Chinese aviation group Lucky Aviation, "valued at approximately USD 200 million." The operation is leveraged on a charter contract basis exclusively for the transport of cargo, mainly raw materials,... more
Another gateway to Italy 

The Belgium carrier Lineas is introducing another intermodal rail link between Belgium and Italy. It will open Piadena as a new gateway to Italy for intermodal trains and comes on top of the successful Ghent-Segrate connection that was launched a year ago. The daily... more
China already recovering? 

There is a silver lining on the horizon. Volumes at the Port of Shanghai have increased since mid-May, Chicago-based intelligence provider Four Kites report. At this stage, the 14-day average ocean shipment volume is down only 4% compared to 12 March (the day before... more
Air cargo security tolerates no mistakes 

The German Federal Aviation Authority (Luftfahrt-Bundesamt, LBA) may ban inspectors from continuing to work if they have committed just one serious breach of due diligence in inspecting freight consignments, according to a recent ruling of the administrative court of... more