New head for customs activities 
Alexandra Kleinschmidt joins Crane Worldwide Logistics in Houston (TX, USA) to lead the customs brokerage and trade advisory team. Kleinschmidt is a licensed customs broker, certified customs specialist and has an experienced background in leadership roles covering customs... more
Transatlantic JV for the US offshore wind industry 
Hamburg (Germany)-based Bernhard Schulte Offshore (BSO) and Mid Ocean Wind (MOW), which operates in the USA, have agreed on a joint venture to build and operate support vessels for the US offshore wind industry. They will also strive to explore opportunities in other sectors of... more
Management changes at Boeing
Boeing has named Stan Deal to succeed Kevin McAllister as president and CEO of Boeing commercial airplanes and Ted Colbert to succeed Deal as president and CEO of Boeing global services, effective immediately. Vishwa Uddanwadiker has been appointed to Colbert's former role... more
UPS COO Jim Barber announces retirement
UPS has announced that its COO Jim Barber will retire at the end of December 2019. As COO, Barber is responsible for the company’s global small package, freight, supply chain and freight forwarding units and global engineering. Serving UPS for nearly 35 years, he joined the... more
Rock-it Cargo increases stake in Triple M
Rock-it Cargo, a global provider of logistics services to live-event shippers, has made a significant incremental investment in Antwerp (Belgium)-based Triple M Entertainment Logistics (Triple M). Triple M focuses on four categories of shippers - live entertainment, stage,... more
Fiata World Congress 2022 in Panama
Rolando Alvarez, president of Upcargo and also president of the Panamanian association of freight forwarders, has announced that Panama has been chosen to host the 2022 Fiata World Congress. This is a global event that brings together the world’s freight and transportation... more
VIP visit to Stuttgart
Three machining centres of the machine manufacturer Hermle, which is based in Swabia (Germany), were recently transported by an AN-124 from Stuttgart Airport to the USA. Each of the machines weighed about 14 t and measured 3.50 m in width x 3.50 in height x 4.50 in depth. With... more
DC-3 ditches in the sea near Nassau
One more DC-3 has been lost. An aircraft that was built in 1944 and was operating for Atlantic Airlines, a company that provides passenger and air cargo flights to and from Tampa (TPA), Orlando (MCO) and Lakeland (LAL), ditched in the waters of the Atlantic Ocean while... more
Kiwis to quit Europe
From October next year, Air New Zealand will fly between Auckland and its alliance partner United Airlines' New York hub Newark Liberty International Airport three times weekly, year-round, using its latest configuration B787-9 aircraft. At the same time, the airline has also... more
Busy times in Long Beach
The port of Long Beach on the US West Coast witnessed the best September of its 108-year history. In total, almost 707,000 teu were handled in September, slightly more (+0.8%) than during the same month a year ago. While imports were down by 0.7% to 355,000 teu, exports more... more