Asia-Pacific to Europe tonnage fails to rebound 
According to the latest weekly air cargo trends supplied by World ACD, global airfreight tonnage rose by 8% in week three of 2025. In the previous week tonnage rebounded by 29%. This means that tonnage is up to 90% of the level reported in the last week before Christmas. Average... more
Cyprus Shipping Chamber elects DG
The directors of the Cyprus Shipping Chamber have appointed its deputy director general / marine manager Alexandros Josephides as the body’s next director general. Josephides will succeed Thomas A. Kazakos, who is taking over as secretary-general of the London-based... more
Dachser fleet and business growing
The haulier Dachser reached two milestone recently. The first one concerns the introduction of its 100th fully electric truck for food logistics distribution. The 16 t ‘Volvo FL Electric’, which weighs more than 3.5 t, has a refrigerated body and will commence deliveries of... more
One hour from the German border
Realterm has acquired a last-mile logistics facility in Nijmegen (Netherlands), a mere 18 km from the German border. The site includes a 10,000 sqm logistics space and 3,500 sqm for offices. It also features two-sided loading access, 16 dock doors and two points of ingress and... more
Digitalising manual e-mail processes
The ECS Group and CargoAi have begun a strategic collaboration, integrating CargoAi’s ‘CargoCoPilot’ API into the ECS Group’s operations to digitalise the handling of rate requests and quotations. The solution leverages generative AI to automate manual e-mail processing,... more
New barge route eases Moerdijk–Ruhr road congestion
On 3 February WEC Lines, in partnership with A2B-online, Tailwind Shipping Lines and the Danser Group, is launching a barge service between Moerdijk’s Combined Cargo Terminal (CCT) and the Duisburg Gateway Terminal (DGT). The link will be served by the ‘Tranquilo’ and will... more
Strategic partnership for automated customs processes
Akanea, a French provider of supply chain software solutions, and Informatique 2000, a Geneva-based process automation specialist, have announced a strategic collaboration effort to offer innovative solutions to automate customs processes. The aim is to simplify and automate... more
Bifa 2024 – And the winners are...
Host James Cracknell OBE welcomed a record-breaking audience of over 550 attendees to the British International Freight Association’s 2024 ‘Freight Service Awards’. Bifa director general Steve Parker extended heartfelt congratulations to the winners and finalists, highlighting... more
Dry-ice logistics with an H2 lorry
The industrial gases company Nippon Gases and its transport partner, the liquid bulk specialist Hoyer, already embarked on the path to sustainable transport solutions in the industrial gases sector in Germany with natural gas-powered transport vehicles five years ago. Now the... more
Azeri-German partnership on the Middle Corridor
The Azeri company Ady Express, a subsidiary of Azerbaijan Railways, and the German logistician Hellmann have completed their first joint cargo transport on the Middle Corridor of the New Silk Road. The blocktrain transported 55 feu carrying mixed cargo. It departed from... more