Change of ship crews still in crisis 
Two days before the international "Seafarers' Day", the situation of crew changes in the global merchant fleet has not improved. Alfred Hartmann, president of the Association of German Shipowners (VDR), made an urgent appeal to states that prevent seafarers from... more
Gebrüder Weiss down under
Austrian transport and logistics company Gebrüder Weiss is looking forward to opening country branches in Australia and New Zealand on 1 July 2020. These will be the company’s first offices in the southern hemisphere. The future air & sea locations will be situated in... more
New vehicles to speed up deliveries
Globaltruck in Russia plans to use new cargo vehicles for its express delivery service, which it provides through its subsidiary Cargopipeline. The Russian FTL-trucking company has acquired ten extended semi-trailers from Schmitz Cargobull. The high-margin service allows the... more
H2/2020: Full black or full red?
The Copenhagen (Denmark)-based maritime analyst Sea-Intelligence has issued a new assessment of the carrier's financial situation in 2020. In a first estimate in April, the Danes suggested two possible outcomes, both based on a presumed 10% loss of volumes. One forecasts... more
Increasing freight volume to Kaliningrad region
In cooperation with Transcontainer and other partners (Delo, Ecopolimery, Stroykeramika, Lazurit Cargo), Belarusian Railway has organised contrailer transportation between Russia’s Kaliningrad oblast–Lithuania–Belarus–Moscow and Moscow oblast. The Kaliningrad Railway... more
Maersk sticks to its optimism
A.P. Moeller-Maersk A/S (APMM), the world's largest container shipping group, said it expects better market demand than previously forecast in the current three-month period. The quarterly profit should therefore be "slightly above" the USD 1.5 billion mark achieved... more
New horizons for Ethiopian Airlines
Ethiopian Airlines has converted 22 passenger aircraft cargo aircraft in a short period of time. Fitsum Ebadi, MD cargo & logistics services: "This achievement was only possible by our strong MRO team which we built through time. We can now respond to the ever... more
ESR develops last-mile facility in Incheon
ESR has signed the agreement on a development joint venture named ESR-KS II with APG and Canada Pension Plan Investment Board. ESR-KS II will be seeded initially with a prime land site situated in Incheon City, on which a large-scale, multi-tenant facility with a gross floor... more
UWC completes delivery of box cars to Kuchukterminal
United Wagon Company (UWC) has shipped 100 box cars manufactured in Tikhvin, Russia, to the fleet of Kuchukterminal, which is part of the network run by logistic group LTB. Taking the latest delivery into account, Kuchukterminal now operates a total 220 box cars mounted on 25-t... more
60 million truck kilometres covered in three months
Russian FTL trucking company Globaltruck operated a total of 1,366 trucks in Q1/2020, 3.2% down from the same period last year. The total distance covered by trucks increased by 1.1% and reached 61.2 million km versus 60.5 million km in Q1/2019. Average monthly distance per... more