Leman's activities on the rise 
The Danish transport and logistics company Leman looks back on 2021 with joy. The company's turnover took a leap of 60%, rising from DKK 2.2 billion (EUR 300 million) to DKK 3.6 billion (EUR 480 million). Operating profit was back in the black in 2021 at DKK 64 million (EUR 8.6... more
A cold takeover
The French group Clareton has acquired Christian Gaillard’s cool chain business. The unit comprises cold warehouses covering a surface of 7,000 sqm (frozen, fresh and ambient storage). The staff and 25,000 sqm of land are also part of the deal. Clareton, which recently built... more
A big surface in Germany 
B+S Logistik und Dienstleistungen has acquired a logistics property in Hammersbach in the northeast of Germany’s Rhine-Main region, thus adding 40,000 sqm of space to its portfolio. One of the customers is Pepsico, a major player in the food sector. B+S will take over the... more
Logistics for an African pipeline
The decision-makers of the East African Crude Oil Pipeline (Eacop) project have chosen their main logistics contractor services (MLC). The contract goes to Bolloré Logistics after an extensive and detailed tendering process. The Eacop project will construct a 1,443 km buried... more
Ten years in Vietnam
It’s a double ten. Gebüder Weiss has opened branches in ten different countries in East Asia to date, and it is also celebrating its tenth anniversary in Vietnam this year. The logistics provider runs two offices in the country, one in the economic hub Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon)... more
Europa launches sales branch in Liverpool
UK based Europa Worldwide Group's road division has opened a new office at the Royal Albert Docks in Liverpool, its first sales branch in the city. The potential is there. At the end of 2021, the road freight market will have seen an overall increase of 27.5% compared to... more
Record figures for Cargo-Partner
Despite a difficult market environment, Cargo-Partner was able to record a significant improvement in revenue in 2021, exceeding the EUR 1.5 billion mark for the first time. The company also posted a growth of volumes in all its business segments. Compared to 2020, revenue rose... more
Domarin sells majority share
Felbermayr has taken over the majority share of the Domarin Group of companies in southern Germany. The Domarin locations and facilities in the water and shipbuilding sector will remain unaffected, as will the name of the long-established company. Domarin was founded in 1986... more
Emerging in two more markets
Six months after expanding its business into Chile, Emergent Cold Latin America, a refrigerated storage and logistics service provider based in São Paulo, Brazil, has acquired two more companies. The acquisition of Polo Logístico de Frio (PLF), which has a strong market... more
Connecting Thailand with China
The Chinese branch of the former Nippon Express Group, now NX Group, recently launched a new multimodal transport service linking up China and neighbouring Asean countries. With lead times of five days, this new offer is a multimodal service for transporting cargo by rail... more