New Eurasian train via Poland/Belarus border crossing 
Jointly with Belintertrans-Germany and with the assistance of the Belorussian Railways, UTLC has introduced an additional container train route via the Kuznitsa/ Bruzgi (Poland/Belarus) border crossing. The first container train departed from the Lodz, Poland, on this route and... more
Marc Henning to manage central hub at 24plus
Marc Henning has been appointed the new head of 24plus’s central hub in Hauneck (Hesse, Germany). He replaces Steffen Renner, who left the hub operator 24plus hub logistics back at the end of 2018. Henning joins the company from the waste management industry, where he held... more
No aviation without air freight
The debate on climate change has brought the aviation industry into public focus. For this reason, politicians, economists and scientists gathered at Germany’s first national aviation conference at Leipzig-Halle airport last week to sign a statement regarding the future of the... more
IM Properties and Jaguar Land Rover plan logistics hub
IM Properties is working with Jaguar Land Rover to create a new global aftermarket parts distribution centre for the automotive company. The proposed new 273,000 sqm campus in the Midlands between Birmingham and Leicester (UK) would supply around 80 markets worldwide and meet... more
Rhine traffic rises at the Port de Strasbourg
The Port of Strasbourg (France) has reported good figures in river traffic on the Rhine from January to June 2019. Throughput grew by more than 6% and amounted to 3.8 million t, a slight increase of +1% compared to 2017, which was a very good year in terms of river traffic.... more
New general director for Air Bridge Cargo
Volga-Dnepr Group, which consists of three air cargo carriers – Air Bridge Cargo Airlines (ABC), Volga-Dnepr Airlines (VDA) and Atran airlines (Atran) - has summed up its H1/2019 results. All three carriers showed a 6% cargo volume decline to 2.58 million ftk, which is 20% below... more
Speedy construction progress
About 120 days after the first turning of the sod, construction work on the new logistics halls for Nosta Logistics in Ladbergen, between Münster and Osnabrück (Germany), is proceeding according to plan. The commercial real estate will be finished even before the contractually... more
Malungsfors returns to business after more than 20 years
In Sweden, rail carrier Hector Rail and members of the country’s government celebrated the re-opening of the Västerdalsbanan timber line and the new transhipment terminal in Malungsfors. Freight traffic to and from the city came to a halt over 20 years ago and has now been... more
LSCI confirms trend towards Asia
The most recent LSCI – Liner Shipping Connectivity Index, showing a list of this year’s best-connected container ports, was published by the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (Unctad) in July. The index covers 900 ports in 178 countries and shows maritime... more
Fiata strives for parley
Fiata is calling for urgent talks with the top carriers, in the wake of recent moves by shipping lines to impose penalties on shippers who misdeclare cargoes. The previous week saw Maersk, Hapag-Lloyd, HMM and OOCL confirm to have adopted a practice of charging fines of up USD... more