Europe to Central Asia rail service launched 
Nurminen Logistics has started regular railway transport services from Finland and Europe to Kazakhstan in co-operation with Kazakh State Railways (KTZE). The first consignment from Helsinki to Kazakhstan began its journey last week and the next departures will be in December.... more
K+N: Marc Pfeffer to join management board
The board of directors of the global logistics group Kuehne + Nagel International has appointed Marc Pfeffer to the management board. From January 2023, Pfeffer will join the management board in his capacity as group general counsel and will retain his role as corporate... more
GoA4 passes the test
Manufacturer Alstom has demonstrated the highest grade of automation on a shunting locomotive near Breda, the Netherlands, in partnership with Dutch infrastructure manager Pro Rail and Belgian railfreight operator Lineas. This grade of automation, known as GoA4, includes... more
Allcargo makes big purchase
The Belgian affiliate of India-based Allcargo has inked an agreement with NBG Logistik Beteiligungs- und Beratungsgesellschaft to acquire 75% of the shares of Fair Trade Schiffahrt, Handel und Logistik. The price of the transaction is approximately EUR 12 million, subject to... more
Negative impact on world trade
In October 2022, the container throughput index published by the RWI Leibniz Institute for Economic Research and the Institute of Shipping Economics and Logistics (ISL) declined sharply to 120.8 points from the 124.2 points (seasonally adjusted) registered the month before,... more
Deutsche Aircraft promotes Maximilian Fahr
Deutsche Aircraft has appointed Maximilian D. Fahr as vice president, supply chain, effective 1 November 2022. Based in Oberpfaffenhofen near Munich, Fahr will lead and manage the company’s supply chain organisation. Prior to this appointment, Fahr had been director of... more
Switzerland adopts European drone regulations
As from 1 January 2023, drone pilots in Switzerland will be subject to new regulations. The joint committee of the bilateral agreement between Switzerland and the European Union on air transport decided on 24 November 2022 that Switzerland will adopt the EU’s drone... more
Forwarder reactivates industrial rail track
Denkinger, a logistics services provider based in Baden-Württemberg, Germany, is shifting more goods from road to rail. The logistics company bought an area with a railway siding for this purpose. However, before the 1.2 km long siding with three switches and two sidings... more
A new project team is on
The German L.I.T. Group has spun off the company's own L.I.T. Solutions to make its own projects more professional. The cross-sector team, which emerged from the business engineering department, currently has eight employees. It will provide internal support from the beginning... more
Low waters leaving their mark on the Rhine
For 9M/2022, the Swiss Rhine ports (SRH) posted a throughput result that is almost a quarter (24.5%) behind the comparable period in 2021. In addition to the effects of the war in Ukraine, traffic flows were held back by the prolonged period of low water in late summer. This led... more