Cargo-partner creates “quick transport order” option 
With the transport order module on its spot platform, cargo-partner offers its customers an easy way to award transport contracts. To simplify the procedure even further, the company has now introduced a “quick transport order” function. Unlike the existing standard... more
Field trial for digital freight documents
As part of Living Lab 12 (digitalisation of freight documents), the German association of freight transport, logistics and waste management (BGL) is participating in an EU-wide Aeolix field trial for the deployment of electronic freight documents in roadfreight transport.... more
Trailer maker picks operations boss
The supervisory board of Schmitz Cargobull has appointed Michael Grund to the new management board of operations. Grund gained international experience in numerous executive positions in the operations, portfolio management/strategy and business development fields, as well as in... more
New north-south axis over the Brenner Pass
Kombiverkehr, which is based in Frankfurt (Germany), will add a new north-south axis to its European network. As from the beginning of May 2019, the terminal in Kreuztal in the Siegen-Wittgenstein district (North Rhine Westphalia), which was inaugurated only recently, will... more
Three more locomotives for European network
AWT, which is based in Czechia, has signed a contract to lease three Siemens Vectron A17 multisystem locomotives. The locomotives will be handed over to AWT in the middle of 2019. AWT currently runs a total of seven multisystem locomotives, which are used mainly for... more
Goodman builds for home24
After about seven months of construction work, the real estate company Goodman has completed a new logistics hub in the Star Park in Halle (Germany). The facility was built for the online merchant home24. It is the company’s largest logistics centre in Germany. “Our new hub... more
Dakotas: more celebrations ahead
Only days before reviving the Berlin airlift of 1948-1949, several of the more than 800 Douglas C-47 Skytrains (Dakotas) which participated in “D-Day”, when almost 160,000 Allied troops stormed the Normandy beaches, will come back to the place where they made history on 6... more
Dachser maintains sustainable growth
Dachser posted substantial growth once again in 2018. The logistics provider increased its consolidated net revenue by 5.5% to EUR 5.57 billion. Shipment volumes grew by 2.5% to 83.7 million; tonnage rose by 3% to 41.3 million t. With 30,609 employees in total, up 1,511 from the... more
Airlines deepen cooperation with pharma logistics providers
Ahead of the Logipharma event in Montreux (Switzerland) from today, 9 April 2019, until next Thursday, CSafe Global, a US provider of active and passive temperature-controlled packaging solutions for pharmaceutical products, has reported that American Airlines is the latest... more
Tigers expands UK operations
Tigers has opened a new facility in Thurrock, near London Gateway, to continue with long-term UK investment plans and to meet growing e-commerce demand, despite the ongoing uncertainty surrounding Brexit. Tigers has moved its existing Basildon facility to the larger location... more