Bansard strengthens its management team 
The French logistics services provider Bansard International adds a new impulse to its development by strengthening its management team. Milad Seif has joined Bansard International and assumed the position of global sales director. In this function he is responsible for... more
Cartonplast Group opens new site
Cartonplast (CPL) has opened a new service and logistics centre in Schweitenkirchen (Bavaria, Germany). In July, the 5,000 sqm hall was rented and, after only three months of construction, the new location for the servicing of rentable reusable transport layer pads was put into... more
bremenports improves its climate balance
Bremen’s ports have been able to reduce their emissions by 70% over the last eight years. The current aim is to make the port infrastructure completely C02 neutral by the end of 2023. The port management company bremenports drafted a sustainability strategy already in 2009.... more
Steerprop appoints new CEO
Steerprop’s board of directors has appointed Riku-Pekka Hägg as the company’s new CEO. Hägg will assume his new role at the start of January 2020. As former vice president of ship design at Wärtsilä, Hägg brings decades of maritime technology know-how, digital and strategic... more
Ekol Logistics and UBV join forces
Ekol and UBV have decided to take another step forward to strengthen their market position in Europe and have signed a long-term exclusive cooperation agreement. UBV is a large international groupage transportation company and Ekol Logistics is a 3PL company that specialises not... more
Flying Whales and small AI-controlled airships
Québec intends to invest at least CAD 30 million (EUR 20 million) in the Flying Whales airship project in southwestern France and in a new local subsidiary, Les dirigibles Flying Whales Québec. The plan to invest public funds to open up remote areas of the Canadian province to... more
UIC: Railway safety achieves a record high
Rail transport is the safest mode of overland transport and is improving continuously in terms of safety, as the International Union of Railways (UIC) demonstrates in its latest report on railway accidents. Accidents and numbers of victims were reduced by almost 17% between... more
Bcube implements handling solution from Champ
Bcube, one of Italy's largest and most dynamic air cargo handlers and logistics companies, has implemented "Cargospot Handling". The solution of the global IT logistics provider Champ Cargosystems is a cargo operations and terminal management system which is... more
Opening ceremony for locomotive workshop
A new locomotive workshop has been opened on the Massvlakte in the port of Rotterdam. In the high-tech facility all types of locomotives can be services, repaired and certified. Unique to the Netherlands are the test tracks with catenaries capable of handling all the different... more
Salvatore Sciacchitano to be president of the Icao council
The 36-member governing body of the international civil aviation organisation (Icao), the Icao council, has elected Salvatore Sciacchitano of Italy as its president for a three-year term, beginning 1 January 2020. He succeeds Olumuyiwa Benard Aliu of Nigeria, who has held the... more