100 for Fercam 
After a difficult year in 2020, the South Tyrolean company Fercam returned to pre-pandemic heights in 2021. Its EUR 943 million turnover was generated in 21 countries with more than 100 company-owned branches. While the full truck-load (FTL) business contributed a 52% share to... more
K+N elects Hansjörg Rodi to management board
The board of directors of Kuehne + Nagel International has appointed Hansjörg Rodi to its management board, effective 1 August 2022. Rodi will assume responsibility for road logistics and thus succeed Stefan Paul, who will become the new CEO of the Kuehne + Nagel Group on the... more
First Copper River salmon of the season
Straight from the frigid waters of the Copper River in Alaska, the first delivery of fresh salmon has arrived at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport. Nearly 7,802 kg of wild Alaska Copper River salmon was flown by Alaska Air Cargo — the first of many shipments expected this... more
New technology for wine transport
Four musketeers to promote a new technology: Innolux Japan, Enji Corporation, Cold Storage Japan and NGK Insulators have jointly started the development of a temperature and humidity control service using sensor tags to visualise the environment while transporting and storing... more
13 million boxes too much?
The transport time is the secret. The Copenhagen-based maritime consultancy Sea-Intelligence recently analysed the data provided by Hapag-Lloyd, looking at the development in both the size of the equipment fleet as well as the number of transported containers over the past... more
UAE strengthening ties with Spain and UK
Etihad Rail has signed MoUs with Spain’s national railway operator Renfe, UK’s first high-speed railway High Speed 1 and British rail freight operator GB Railfreight. The aim is to exchange knowledge, expertise, and best practices in freight and passenger rail services and rail... more
Maastricht at Flexport’s crossroads
The San Francisco-based forwarder Flexport has teamed up the US capacity provider Jet One X to offer Boeing B747F flights from Hong Kong to Maastricht, as well as from the same Dutch airport to Ho Chi Minh City (Vietnam). The technology platform and digital forwarder Flexport... more
Strong growth for the railway industry
The German railway industry registered a new record turnover of EUR 12.9 billion in 2021. It stood 3% above that for the previous year, according to the Verband der Bahnindustrie in Deutschland (German rail industry association, VDB). Domestic business increased by about 2.5%... more