Rhenus invests in two road freight hubs 
The group is adding two new business sites in Germany. In Nuremberg, it is building a completely new almost 17,000 sqm logistics facility with a warehouse, a cargo handling area, and office space. In Dietzenbach, Rhenus is expanding its existing logistics services to meet... more
More cargo transported by rail in Central Asia
HHLA Project Logistics is shifting project cargo from road to rail for further orders in Central Asia. Part of the project cargo is loaded in Baku, Azerbaijan, and carried to different destinations in Kazakhstan. Shipments are despatched by rail from Baku to the port of... more
USA: new space for bulk liquid tanks
Cotac, part of the German Hoyer Group, can now store full bulk liquid ISO tanks at its depot in Houston, Texas (USA). For Hoyer, the Houston site is the central logistics hub for global logistics and for domestic services for products from the chemical, food, lubricant and gas... more
Switzerland: milk runs with all-electric vehicle
Designwerk recently delivered the first all-electric milk van to Zgraggen Transport. With this vehicle, around 93 t of CO2 can be saved annually, making local milk collection in the Swiss canton of Uri emission-free, the two companies said. The vehicle covers a distance of... more
First goods trains move through east tunnel
After the devastating accident a fortnight ago, goods trains began to run through the Gotthard Base Tunnel (GBT) again yesterday (23.8.). The first goods train, a Rail Care composition, entered the tunnel from the south. The second was a mail train from the north. Due to the... more
Metrans to extend its Pure network
The rail carrier will integrate the inland terminals Duisburg in Germany and Indija in Serbia into its CO₂-free transport system on 1 September 2023. The ports of Wilhelmshaven (Germany), Gdansk (Poland), Rotterdam (The Netherlands), Trieste (Italy) and Rijeka (Croatia) will... more
More EVs for India
Maersk launched its three-wheeler and four-wheeler electric vehicles (EV)s in Mumbai, India, last year. Since then, the country’s awareness of EVs has grown, resulting in an unprecedented rise in demand from several customers. Maersk is now increasing its EV fleet to over... more
Fresh equipment for fire fighters
In Germany, Stuttgart’s fire department is procuring four new Unimog vehicles for emergency management operations such as fighting forest fires. One new addition to the fleet is a rescue vehicle based on Unimog U 323 with just 2.20 m width for use on narrow roads in forests... more
“From Lisbon to Kyiv” 
In conversation with InRail CEO Guido Porta. The Genoa-based enterprise InRail, a very large Italian railfreight group with cross-border experience and ambitions, operates 20 electric and five diesel locomotives of its own, has 400 employees and a turnover that’s expected to... more
Transport sector demands priority for railfreight
The reopening of the Gotthard Base Tunnel (GBT) on a single track announced for today, Wednesday (23 August), will bring relief for freight traffic and is welcomed by the transport sector. Transport and logistic companies demand that emergency capacities be utilised as... more