UK’s first e-tipper truck in operation 
Transition from diesel to battery electric heavy trucks: Fox Group has become the first business in UK to introduce electric tipper trucks into its fleet. The family-owned company has purchased two new Volvo FE electric tippers. The pair will operate from the company’s depot on... more
Revised Caribbean-Mediterranean connections
The French carrier CMA CGM is reshuffling its weekly service between the Mediterranean, the Caribbean and the West Coast of Latin America. There will be new calls at the ports of Buenaventura, Paita, Posorja and Guayaquil. The rotation will be updated as follows: Algeciras -... more
K+N Russia goes to Perry Neumann
It is a special kind of MBO. On 3 June 2022, the Switzerland-based logistics group Kuehne + Nagel signed an agreement to sell its business in the Russian Federation to its local managing director Perry Neumann. Since March 2022, the company had temporarily suspended all... more
First of four Boeing 747-8 freighters for Atlas Air
Atlas Air, a subsidiary of Atlas Air Worldwide Holdings, has taken delivery of a Boeing 747-8 freighter, which will operate on behalf of its customer Cainiao, the logistics arm of Alibaba Group, as part of a previously announced long-term agreement. The aircraft will increase... more
Felbermayr to support Netzwerk Metall partnership
Felbermayr Transport- und Hebetechnik joined the Netzwerk Metall partnership as a supporter on 1 May 2022. “Founded almost twenty years ago, Netzwerk Metall now comprises 65 member companies from the Austrian steel, glass and metal construction industry,” said managing director... more
More telematics technology for railfreight
Union Pacific Railroad (UP) has joined the Rail Pulse coalition and its effort to develop, broaden and accelerate the use of GPS and other telematics technologies in North America’s railfreight industry. The US class I railroad is Rail Pulse’s seventh member after GATX, G &... more
Alternative fuels employed in Southampton
The container terminal of DP World at Southampton is going to eliminate fossil diesel from its operations entirely and transit to hydrotreated vegetable oil (HVO). Diesel previously accounted for 90% of the terminal’s emissions but HVO – a renewable biodiesel derived from... more
DIY store in the border triangle
Hornbach Baumarkt has taken out a lease on the Panattoni Park Freiburg Süd in Neuenburg am Rhein just as construction is getting underway. The German family-run company operates DIY and garden centres in Germany and other countries in Europe. Hombach will use the Neuenburg... more
Switch to rail saves 2,600 t in emissions
Audi Brussels (Belgium) has contracted DB Cargo to deliver components for battery production from its Hungarian supplier by rail. The first rail transports are already running and the switch from truck to rail is scheduled to be completed by the beginning of 2023. Until now,... more