HSF changes hands 
Danish DFDS has acquired the cold chain logistics company HSF Logistics Group, which provides temperature-controlled services for food producers. The group operates four brands, with HSF Logistics being a major player in the Netherlands, Germany and UK. N&K Spedition and... more
Jan de Rijk augments fleet
Dutch company Jan de Rijk Logistics, with headquarters in Roosendaal, is enhancing its fleet. Daniel Uijtdewillegen, its director for international transport, recently received the keys of the first batch of new trucks from Johan Claassen, sales manager with TB Bastianen.... more
The industry remained lively 
The contradictory news of 2020 included hiring freezes and people frequently changing jobs. Moritz Blaser, a specialist in human resource services, explained the background of this and other paradoxes to Christian Doepgen. more
More capital for Prologis
Over the year 2020, the San Francisco-based real estate developer Prologis completed USD 25.0 billion of investment activity on an owned and managed basis. From the ProLogis – AMB merger in 2011 to year-end 2020, Prologis completed investment transactions totalling over USD... more
Strong quarter for J.B. Hunt
Arkansas-headquartered J.B. Hunt Transport Services, a Fortune 500 company, has announced Q4/2020 earnings of USD 154 million, 0.7% more than in Q4/2019. Revenues for the current quarter amounted to USD 2.74 billion, compared to USD 2.45 billion in the same period in 2019 (+1%).... more
Rebranding across America
As of January 2021, Freight Logistics International, Pirâmide SeaAir and Rodair will officially be known as Rhenus Logistics in the Americas. The three companies in the United States, Brazil and Canada were acquired in 2018 and 2019. Jörn Schmersahl, CEO of Rhenus Air &... more
Refinancing for Crossbay
Crossbay, founded in May 2020 as part of the Mark Group’s multi-platform strategy and the first pan-European logistics platform to focus on single-tenant distribution centres, has agreed a GBP 400 million debt facility with global investment bank Citi to help fund its continued... more
New warehouse in Corby
Since the e-commerce boom seems to know no limits in pandemic times, 3PL logistics provider Europa Worldwide Group has announced further investment. Just last year, its warehouse division launched its GBP 60 million and 750,000 sqm 3PL facility in Corby. The ground floor... more
More Amazon in Quebec
Amazon has opened two new sortation centres and its first three delivery stations in Quebec (Canada). A 160,000 sqm in Coteau-du-Lac, a suburb just west of Montreal, will be the company’s largest sortation centre in this province and is set to open in the course of 2021.... more
JV starts operations in the Kingdom
Al Khaldi and Bertling Logistics have formed a joint venture called Al Khaldi-Bertling Logistics. While Bertling’s focus is on global project logistics and transport engineering solutions, Al Khaldi primarily specialises in local logistics and trucking services and transport... more