Port of Mobile receives new container depot 
Marino Group’s Marine Repair Services-Container Maintenance Corporation (MRS-CMC) has opened an almost 140,000 sqm large container depot in Port of Mobile, Alabama (USA). The new facility provides container maintenance and repair, loaded and empty container storage, warehousing,... more
Transnatur partners with Bring Logistics
Multimodal logistics operator Transnatur Group, headquartered in Barcelona, Spain, has signed a cooperation agreement with Norwegian provider Bring Logistics. Bring has two business segments: transport & logistics and mail service. In addition to its administrative... more
Prologis to build logistics hub near Stuttgart
In April 2022, Prologis acquired a property of 25,000 sqm in Germany's strongest production region north of Stuttgart. The undeveloped site is in a logistics and industrial area in the north of Illingen in the southwestern Rhine-Neckar region. Illingen is attractive for... more
Geodis now has six e-logistics hubs
Geodis has opened a new site for e-logistics in in Coventry, UK. The 7,000 sqm site is located in a strategic area with good links to transport networks allowing quick distribution of the products. The facility has the capacity to store more than 500,000 SKUs and to process up... more
Maersk opens warehouse in Cape Town
A.P. Moller – Maersk has inaugurated its first warehousing and distribution facility in Cape Town in South Africa. The hub will offer easy connectivity to rail, road, air and port infrastructure and serve as an important link in integrated logistics solutions. The new... more
Agility's acquisitions pay off in Q1/2023
Kuwait-based Agility ended Q1/2023 with earnings of KWD 15.3 million (EUR 45.7 million), an increase of 20% over the same period in 2022. Agility’s ebitda increased 78.1% to KWD 60.4 million (EUR 180.5 million) and revenue grew 142.7% to KWD 320.5 million (EUR 958 million).... more
Beyond (east of) Munich: Japanese buy Cargo-Partner
The deal was signed on 12 May 2023: Japanese stock-listed Nippon Express Holdings (NX), which is also the parent company of Nippon Express, APC, Franco Vago and others, reached an agreement with the Austrian Cargo-Partner Group Holding and its subsidiaries Multi Transport und... more
Booking a shipment in six steps
At the third myDHLi Digital Summit, DHL Global Forwarding presented its upgraded state-of-the-art digital customer portal. The software is intended to help customers enhance their logistics’ performance, resilience, and sustainability, even in uncertain times. In a live... more
Three new logistics estates in Asia
Since forming a strategic partnership with Macquarie Asset Management in 2021, logistics real estate developer Unified Industrial (UI) has expanded its investment activities through three new ventures – two in Japan and one in China. The first two ventures have now been... more
Haulier expands LTL business in North America
The North American transport company TFI International has agreed to acquire Siemens Transportation Group (STG) and completed the acquisition of Hot Line Freight Systems (Hot Line). Terms of the transactions were not disclosed. Founded in 1962, the majority of STG’s operations... more