Prologis chooses senior vice president for Germany 
Prologis has appointed Björn Thiemann as senior vice president, country manager Germany. In this position, Thiemann will be responsible for all the company's operational and capital deployment activities in Germany. During the past seven years, Thiemann worked as head of... more
New building in Amiens
BT-Immo is setting up a new logistics facility on an industrial area in the northern part of Amiens (France). On a former Goodyear site, the company is building a logistics property with an 80,000 sqm storage area and 2,000 sqm of office space. The real estate developer has... more
Direct link from Belgium to Turkey via Romania
H.Essers and Rail Cargo Austria have joined forces to launch a new and direct rail link between Romania and Turkey. The cargo rail connection had been in the pipeline for some time, but the roll-out has now been accelerated due to the Covid-19 crisis. H.Essers already... more
100,000 pallets in one week
EV Cargo’s Palletforce in UK has just set new weekly and daily records for network volumes after successfully implementing a range of measures and member support to protect and grow its business amidst the Covid-19 challenges. In the last week in June Palletforce volumes hit... more
CFL multimodal strengthens sales team
Sven Löffler has joined CFL multimodal in Luxembourg as general sales manager, alongside CCO Alain Krecké. With 20 years of experience in the railway and logistics industry in Germany and France, Löffler will be in charge of managing the sales teams – rail, intermodal and... more
More ULCV, more handling troubles
The recently published tenth WPSP-IAPH Covid19 port economic impact barometer gives a first indication of the development of container handling in ports located in countries where lockdown restrictions are being eased. The report is based on the figures of ninety ports... more
Pamyra partners with CTL
Effective immediately, logistics start-up Pamyra has formed a strategic partnership with logistics services provider CTL Cargo Trans Logistik as part of the new business customer segment Pamyra Pro. CTL’s national general cargo network will be a key component of the platform’s... more
Southern European Flag carriers re-nationalised
On 29 June 2020, Alitalia was officially relaunched with new management (Francesco Caio, an executive with a background in telecoms and banking and who led the postal service Poste Italiane to an IPO in 2015, as president, and Fabio Lazzerini, a former general manager of... more
Dues suspended to boost traffic on Kiel Canal
Low bunker prices not only pave the way for shipping companies around the Cape instead of the Suez Canal. The same development has led to a considerable decline of traffic on the North German Kiel Canal compared to the detour around the cape of Skagen. The route around Denmark... more
DB Schenker expands ocean freight team
DB Schenker has appointed two executives to lead the sea freight business in the DE/CH cluster. Hans-Thorsten Lanfermann will manage the ocean export segment. He has been working for DB Schenker for almost 20 years. His most recent position was head of sea freight north of... more