Niedersachsen Ports with positive surprises 
Not all of Lower Saxony's nine sea ports saw a decline in cargo throughput in H1/2020, although total throughput dropped by 11%. All in all, the group of ports handled 24 million t of goods in H1/2020 (27 million t in 2019). Papenburg, Oldenburg and Stade however recorded a... more
Simacan and Transfollow form partnership
Simacan, the cloud platform for transport and logistics, a Transfollow, an eCMR platform that links up the digital systems of shippers, carriers and customers, plan to deepen their cooperation and connect their logistics platforms for transport execution. Both companies... more
Madile to head DACH division at Meyer QSL
Stefano Madile has been appointed director key account management DACH at Meyer Quick Service Logistics (QSL). Besides heading the offices in Germany, he will focus on the strategic development of the company's locations in Austria and Switzerland. With Stefano Madile, an... more
Ceneri tunnel officially opened
Today, Friday 04.09.2020, the Ceneri base tunnel in the canton of Ticino (Switzerland) is officially opened in the presence of federal president and transport minister Simonetta Sommaruga and foreign minister Ignazio Cassis. The Ceneri base tunnel is the third and last piece of... more
High voltage onboard Volga-Dnepr Airlines
Russia's Volga-Dnepr Airlines demonstrated agility and flexibility while organising a charter flight with high voltage equipment onboard to empower the construction of the 450MW Thuan Nam 12 solar power plant project in Vietnam's south central coast region. One of its... more
More capacity for services to and from Italy
Kombiverkehr will expand its intermodal services from 7 December 2020. Firstly, the intermodal operator will increase the frequency of the Hanover (Germany) - Verona (Italy) link from five to six weekly departures. And secondly, the trains running between Munich-Riem... more
Salzburg subsidises modal shift
The federal state of Salzburg in Austria has decided to support companies with active industrial sidings and companies reactivating existing industrial sidings or offering single wagon transport to further the shift of freight to rail. According to the Austrian Rail Cargo... more
Kuehne + Nagel distributes dividends
At Kuehne + Nagel's extraordinary general meeting, shareholders overwhelmingly voted for the new allocation of the available net profit for the business year 2019 which was approved by the company's ordinary general meeting of 5 May 2020. Hence, as of 8 September 2020, an... more
High-capacity car-carriers now in operation
Transfesa Logistics has added the first train made up of 18 of the 100 new car-carriers manufactured in Poland to its international traffic network. The wagons are specially designed to respond to new trends in the automotive market, where the production of large and heavy... more
Plans for new logistics site in Birmingham
St Francis Group has assembled a site of 117,359 sqm in Kings Norton, Birmingham (UK) for the development of new industrial warehouse space. Gareth Williams, director at St Francis Group: “We are delighted to have secured these strategic sites and to be able to promote a... more