NFP: new executive leadership team in Canada 

NFP, a property and casualty broker, benefits consultant, wealth manager and retirement advisor, has appointed a new executive leadership team (ELT) in Canada. Members of the corporate ELT include John Haas, president; Scott Saddington, COO; Tara Carruthers, CFO; Lesley Munk,... more
China-Service to the Black Sea launched 

Trans Container has launched a new multimodal service for transporting import cargo from China to the Rostov and Krasnodar Regions near the Russian Black Sea coast. The service is focused on the shipment of consumer goods for the needs of Russian small, medium-sized, and... more
Safram increases capacities in Paris 

Thanks to its new owner, the Heppner Group, Safram now has access to additional storage capacities in Paris, thus doubling its warehousing space for dangerous goods in the greater Paris area. The new facility, located in the industrial park in Le Tilley (FR 95), is not far... more
GPA continues upward trend 

In May 2022, the Georgia Ports Authority (GPA) passed the threshold of almost 520,000 teu handled, breaking the previous record of 504,000 teu set in October 2021. Volumes rose by 8.5% or 40,800 teu compared to the same month in 2021. The Garden City Terminal especially is... more
"Curiosity of the Day" 
20 years ago, some districts in Berlin introduced a kind of women's quota for street names. The rule will apply until equality between the sexes has been achieved. more
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