More rail assets in Pacific Northwest 
BNSF Railways has started operating the new Tacoma south facility near Seattle, USA. The domestic intermodal facility, leased from partner Northwest Seaport Alliance (NWSA), will substantially improve capacity in the intermodal segment and accommodate more than 50,000 annual... more
40 years of Chapman Freeborn Germany
The German branch of Chapman Freeborn, the global specialist for charter flights and part of the Avia Solutions Group (ASG), is celebrating its 40th anniversary this year. The foundation stone for Chapman Freeborn Germany was laid in Frankfurt in 1982 through the cooperation... more
Global K9 joins school safety programme
Global K9 Protection Group (GK9PG), a provider of canine screening solutions, has joined the first public and private consortium to introduce a new school safety programme using detection dogs at Auburn High School, Alabama. The Paws on Patrol School Safety Programme will... more
PML picks Iain Bruce
Logistics and supply chain solutions provider PML has appointed Iain Bruce as its new finance director. He has already held a range of senior financial positions within various prestigious high-profile operations including McLaren, Johnson & Johnson and Pepsi Co. A... more
Jaxport promotes James Bennett
Jaxport has promoted infrastructure development leader James Bennett, P.E., to the role of chief operating officer (COO). Bennett is a licensed professional engineer with more than three decades of transportation industry experience. He joined Jaxport in 2017 as senior... more
Six more A321F for Qantas
Qantas Freight is increasing its domestic fleet with six Airbus A321 aircraft to meet growing e-commerce demand from its customers. Since the onset of Covid-19, the national carrier’s freight division has seen a step change in cargo volumes driven partly by a structural shift to... more
US contract logistics player turns French
French major player Geodis has acquired 100% of the shares of the US-American "Need It Now Delivers" from the private equity fund Palm Beach Capital and further stakeholders. The contract logistics company, founded in 1987, has built up a road freight network... more
100% Peru
Hellmann Worldwide Logistics now holds all the shares in the Peruvian joint venture Hellmann Worldwide Logistics S.A.C, after Carlos Augusto Dammert, president of the board, decided to sell his stake of 50%. The company will now be fully integrated into Hellmann's global... more
EFL Global celebrates 40th anniversary
Hanif Yusoof founded Expolanka Freight as a five-man team in a 27.9 sqm office in 1982. Commonly referred to as “Expo,” the Sri Lanka-based company aligned itself with global providers by offering flexible solutions with a personal touch. 40 years later, the supply chain and... more
Autonomous road haulage in Texas
Autonomous vehicle company Aurora and transport service provider Schneider National have launched a multiphase commercial pilot to haul freight autonomously. For a first phase, the two companies recently started weekly autonomous hauls between Dallas and Houston with Aurora... more