A double success for Japan Airlines 
Teams from nine international airlines took part in the latest Hactl international forklift and pallet building competition, held at Hactl’s Super Terminal 1 facility in Hong Kong. The event returned this year for the thirteenth time, after a break of four years due to Covid... more
Detq: full speed ahead
After doubling its worldwide workforce in the seven years between 2016 and 2023, Dteq Transport Engineering Solutions is now hiring new executives in Indonesia, Saudi Arabia, the UAE and the USA. Hagen Hennig (left), technical director and Boris Dykiert (right), commercial... more
Regular train service between Far East and Penza
Transcontainer and Stevedoring Holding Global Ports (both part of Delo-Group) have introduced a service for transporting imports from the Far East to Penza, 625 km southeast of Moscow. Containers arrive from China at the Vostochnaya Stevedoring Company and are then... more
Australia: 100% paperless truck entry
ACFS Port Logistics (ACFS) is launching two paperless gate entry points at Port Botany, NSW, Australia. On Wednesday, 24 January 2024, ACFS e-Depot Port Botany will introduce optical camera recognition (OCR) and licence plate recognition (LPR), along with Camco technology gate... more
Creating high-precision AGVs
Using Kollmorgen technology, the Chinese chemical company Heli has introduced automated guided vehicles (AGVs) that can carry 3 t-pallets of soft bags. The specialised AGVs are in service at the company’s site in Xinxiang, moving pallets of soft bags with fertilisers within the... more
And the winner is ...
The U-Freight Group has received ‘Top Agent Awards’ from Cathay Cargo in recognition of the air cargo revenue that it produced for the airline. Firstly, U-Freight Manila, part of U-Freight Philippines, was awarded for the annual revenue performance of Cathay Cargo’s top ten... more
More than half way there 
Good news from Baku. The Caspian Air Cargo Summit, which Michael Mackey attended for the ITJ at the end of last year, had two clear messages for the industry. One was the emergence of Azerbaijan as a hub for air traffic between east and west. The second one was that the industry... more
DHL Express: new heads for Asia Pacific
DHL Express has announced the following changes to its Asia Pacific management board (from left to right): Yung C. Ooi is now Asia Pacific’s senior vice president for commercial, Andy Chiang managing director for DHL Express Hong Kong & Macau, Ji Hun (Michael) Han managing... more
Extending cooperation on dangerous goods
The International Air Transport Association (Iata) and the International Civil Aviation Organisation (Icao) have extended their long-standing cooperation on setting and implementing global standards for the safe carriage of dangerous goods by air. An agreement to this effect... more
Xi’an’s latest train en route to Poti
China has launched a new international freight service. Connecting Xi'an in northwest China's Shaanxi Province, and Poti, a port city in Georgia. The addition is the 18th main route operated by the China-Europe freight train (Xi'an) service, as the Xian International Trade and... more