Belgian airport fortified 
Liège airport, a key European freight hub, has appointed Frédéric Brun (on the left) as its head of commercial cargo, and Alexis Lapot as its senior manager for cargo sales. They will join a team headed by Torsten Wefers, the vice-president of marketing and sales. Brun... more
Three trucks added to fleet
Suga Rich, a big player in the surplus food reprocessing business, has added three new identical Volvo FM 500 6x2 trucks to its growing fleet. The new trucks will be used to deliver surplus food products to the company’s seven reprocessing mills located in UK. The trucks all... more
Carl Büttner now British
London-headquartered Lomar Shipping, a maritime subsidiary of the British Libra Group, has acquired Bremen-based hitherto family-led Carl Büttner Holding (CB). The negotiations for the acquisition of the 166-year-old owner and ship management company started in Q4/2021 and... more
DHL is not Fedex
Deutsche Post DHL Group is celebrating its preliminary results for Q3/2022. A particular focus lay on the group’s ebit, which passed the threshold of EUR 2 billion over the period (Q3/2021: EUR 1.78 billion). Thus, with its group ebit for the first nine months of 2022... more
Europe’s network of the future 
Duisburg and Antwerp enter long-term partnership. Another step has been taken in the field of energy transition, hinterland connections and infrastructure. The inland port of Duisport and the port of Antwerp-Bruges have signed a long-term cooperation agreement. This will further... more
Swiss Worldcargo promotes Gieri Hinnen
Gieri Hinnen, currently head of labour relations and human resource steering at Swiss, has been appointed head of global cargo sales, effective 1 February 2023. In his new capacity, Hinnen will be in charge of Swiss Worldcargo’s commercial division. He succeeds Alexander... more
Europa Road adds new role to its team
Road haulier Europa Road has promoted Nathalie De Preetere to the new position of human resources business partner, as part of the company’s plans to expand its Belgian presence. As a HR business partner, the first role of its kind within the Europa Road group, De Preetere... more
Lower Austria launches fixed-wing drone
A project team from the Aerospace Engineering degree programme at the University of Applied Sciences Wiener Neustadt, which has been working on a drone called "Trogon" since 2017, has reported the completion of the "spectacular and flawless maiden flight".... more
Two for a special site in the Netherlands
The Dutch ministry of defence contracted Rhenus Warehousing Solutions Netherlands for the construction of a centralised logistics centre at the site of the Kamp Soesterberg military barracks to better support logistics operations for land-based systems. The 37,800 sqm... more
HFW continues growth trajectory in Australia
Continuing its growth strategy in Australia, sector-focused law firm HFW has hired shipping lawyer. Ashwin Nair. He specialises in shipping, admiralty and marine insurance, acting for shipowners and charterers and their P&I Clubs and other insurers of marine risks, with a... more