Iberia to be back in Guayaquil 
From today, 13 December 2019, IAG member airline Iberia is resuming its Madrid - Guayaquil service. An A330-200 aircraft offering 16 t of bellyhold cargo capacity will operate this route new route departing IAG's key connector to Latin America, which was previously served until... more
Planning next steps after latest intermodal launch
Italy-based Transmec is already planning ahead following the successful launch of its latest intermodal service. Running between Transmec’s privately-owned terminal at Oradea, Romania, and Lodz in central Poland, the 48-hour service is run in partnership with P&O.... more
Pall-Ex delivers 180,000 Christmas trees
Pall-Ex is helping a local Christmas tree wholesaler reduce the kilometres from forest to front door by transporting products via its pallet network through the UK. The logistics company has been enlisted by Cadeby Tree Trust to deliver 180,000 trees, which must travel from farm... more
Project forwarding award for Deugro
Lloyd’s Loading List honoured Deugro at the global freight awards 2019 ceremony. For the company’s implementation of the Liwa Plastics Industries Complex (PIC) Project, Deugro took home the first-place award in the project forwarding category. The shortlisted Liwa PIC project... more
Ethiopian Airlines next week, next year
Starting next Monday, 16 December 2019, Ethiopian Airlines will operate flights to Houston, TX, three times per week. The fourth most populous city in the USA and the world's largest concentration of healthcare and research institutions, will be served with a B787 via the... more
New head for Britannia’s Greek Office
Britannia P&I Club has announced that Konstantinos Samaritis will be taking over as head of its office in Greece with effect from 1 January 2020. Samaritis is a qualified Greek lawyer and accredited mediator. He joined Britannia’s managers, Tindall Riley, in 2018, having... more
Switzerland: efficient railfreight even on the last mile
It is a stone’s throw, the service the Swiss railfreight company SBB Cargo started to run for Feldschlösschen recently. The distance from the brewery’s headquarters in Rheinfelden in Argovia to Rickenbach in Solothurn is about 40 km and thus the shortest stretch on which the... more
New boost for rail logistics
In Germany, Duisport and Cargo Beamer have joined forces to plan eco-friendly supply chains from ramp to ramp. The project centres on Cargo Beamer’s first wagon park in Duisburg, which offers automated cargo handling for semitrailers from road to rail, robotised cargo... more
Is DB Cargo facing radical restructuring?
The Deutsche Bahn (DB) is considering how to make its loss-making subsidiary DB Cargo profitable again, the logistics consultancy HDS reports, referring to information from the news agency Reuters. According to the report, the group is mulling over radical austerity measures... more
Successful feasibility test on French waterways
A feasibility test for intermodal cement transport was recently conducted by the company Eqiom. Starting from its production site near Rouen (France), the loads were transported to customers in Ile-de-France via the multimodal platform of Gennevilliers. The aim of this test was... more