Ipsen's integration completed 
As of 1 February, Gebrüder Weiss adds Poland and Malaysia to the countries where the company operates under its own brand: the country organisations and the 126 employees taken over from Ipsen Logistics in late 2020 are now fully merged with the logistics provider’s corporate... more
Sealand: From Wilhelmshaven to Alexandria
Sealand, a Maersk company, has launched a new liner service. It connects Germany's only deep-water container port Wilhelmshaven with various destinations in the Eastern Mediterranean. From Wilhelmshaven, the vessels call at the ports of Limassol in Cyprus, Ashdod and Haifa... more
Further routes from China to Finland
Nurminen Logistics’ Chinese container train traffic volumes tripled during 2020. To meet the increased demand, the company will open three new train routes from China to Finland with a Suzhou, Ningbo and Jinan line. On 19 January 2021, the first train left Suzhou bound for... more
Slight setback in ports worldwide
In December 2020, the flash estimate for its container throughput index published by the German research body Rheinisch-Westfälisches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung (RWI - Leibniz) and the Institute of Shipping Economics and Logistics (ISL) registered a light drop in world... more
155 PAX aircraft temporarily converted in 2020
Further to British aviation analyst Cirium, 155 aircraft had most if not all of their passenger seats removed last year in order to transport cargo in the cabin. Increased demand for PPE manufactured in Asia required fast distribution across the world. This coincided with... more
Critical cargo from China to Pakistan
International transportation and logistics specialist Dimerco has delivered oversized cargo - three sets of product line equipment, totalling chargeable weight 91,577 kg - for a telecommunications client to Lahore, Pakistan from Guangdong, China within a tight five-day... more
ESR Amagasaki DC wins award
ESR Cayman, an APAC focused logistics real estate platform, reports that its flagship development ESR Amagasaki Distribution Centre (ESR Amagasaki DC) has won the gold award in the category “best infrastructure, community & civic building” at the MIPIM Asia Awards 2020.... more
Global challenges for binational airport
In 2020, EuroAirport Basel-Mulhouse (EAP) welcomed 71% less passengers than during the record year 2019. Cargo activities, on the other hand, recorded a 2.3% increase to 108,500 t (47,700 t flown, +4.7%). The important cargo hub serves most of Switzerland, eastern France, and... more
App-access to Russian transport services
Delo Group in Russia has introduced an interactive mobile app to present its profile. The application provides information on the group in an animated 3D format in Russian and English – key assets, business geography, services, financial and operational results. The key... more
Snow ploughs for rail tracks
Sinara has delivered fourteen PSS-1K snow clearing trains to the Russian Railways (RZD). The rolling stock will now be deployed to remove snow off rail tracks in various parts of Russia. The trains can be used on tracks up to width of 2.4 m and for a snow depth of up to 0.8... more