31 vehicles for Kent Frozen Foods 
Kent Frozen Foods (KFF) has taken delivery of 31 new Ivecos - 13 Eurocargo and 18 Daily. The UK food service company now runs a solus Iveco fleet of 80 commercial vehicles which are based out of its Aylesford headquarters in Kent and regional depot in Witney, Oxfordshire.... more
First car-train en route from India to Nepal
Hyundai has started its first-ever eco-friendly export operations on the railways, with the dispatch of the first consignment of 125 cars from India to Nepal. After a send-off ceremony, the first car-train departed from the Walajabad railway hub near the... more
Austrian carrier runs 100% on green electricity
As of 1 January 2021, the ÖBB RCG is now also running on traction current of which 100% comes from renewable energy sources in Germany. What was rolled out in Austria in 2018 now applies to all TransFER services in Germany such as the Linz–Duisburg–Wels TransFER and the... more
Modernisation continues
Russian Railways invested over RUB 18 billion (around EUR 200 million) in the development of the Kuzbass region of West Siberian Railways in 2020. This is around 60% more than the total for 2019. The investment enabled the most important sections of 135 km of railtracks to... more
Speeding up urban deliveries in USA
Forwarder Geodis has developed a new digital platform to enable retailers to deliver goods such as fashion items, health and personal care and high-tech merchandise directly to US consumers from the nearest retail store in just a few hours. This technology uses already... more
Temporary suspension of UK services
DB Schenker has identified significant problems relating to the new customs formalities that now apply to shipments between the European Union and the United Kingdom as a result of Brexit. Only around 10% of the customs documents submitted for consignments that DB Schenker... more
Turkish fruit to Moscow by train
Russian Railways (RZD) and Maersk have organised a shipment of refrigerated containers loaded with imported fruit and vegetables as part of a container train moving from Novorossiysk to Moscow in Russia. Twelve forty-foot containers carrying fresh fruit from Turkey arrived... more
More transparency for supply chains
For a period of three years, the German general cargo cooperation VTL will use Synfioo's transport data to monitor its road freight transports. The cooperation is intended to bring more transparency to the supply chains as part of the visionary project VTL Next. The Synfioo... more
Over two dozen rail projects on track
The US-state Pennsylvania has approved 26 rail freight improvement projects for a total USD 31.3 million that will enhance freight mobility while creating or sustaining more than 200 jobs across Pennsylvania. Pennsylvania has 65 operating railroads and roughly 9,000 km of... more
Jinhua-Dourges express train launched
Ceva Logistics has launched an express train service from Jinhua (China) to Dourges (France). Loaded with 22 full containers carrying various supplies, the first train completed the over 11,000 km long journey in 18 days running through Kazakhstan, Russia, Belarus and Germany.... more