CMA CGM acquires Ceva after successful tender offer 
Following the close of the public tender offer launched on 12 February, the CMA CGM group will hold 97.89% of the outstanding shares and voting rights of Ceva upon settlement of the tendered Ceva shares, scheduled for 16 April. CMA CGM plans to delist Ceva from the Zurich... more
UK: Maritime Intermodal officially launched
Following a recent long-term agreement between DB Cargo UK and Maritime Transport to increase railfreight capacity, “Maritime Intermodal” was launched at a celebration event in West Yorkshire (UK). Over 120 rail, logistics and retail professionals gathered at Wakefield... more
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