Antwerp terminal earmarked for renovation 
Nine long years lie ahead. The port of Antwerp-Bruges and PSA Antwerp have agreed on the comprehensive renewal of the quayside and facilities at the Europa Terminal. The work will be carried out in three phases and make the terminal fit for the latest generation of ultra-large... more
German-Turkish conversion cooperation
Elbe Flugzeugwerke (EFW), a German centre of excellence for Airbus passenger-to-freighter (P2F) conversions, and the MRO company Turkish Technic have announced a new collaboration in A330P2F conversions. It will see Turkish Technic becoming the first MRO company to provide... more
VDR elects new board members
After welcoming Dr Martin Kröger as its new chief executive officer in spring, the German Shipowners' Association VDR has now promoted staff members Irina Haesler and Tilo Wallrabenstein to its executive board.Haesler is a lawyer and has been with VDR since 2013, most recently... more
Cargo boom at Budapest Airport
Budapest Airport’s Cargo City is set for another significant expansion following the dynamic cargo development at the Hungarian gateway since the infrastructure opened in January 2020. Increasing the airport’s annual cargo capacity to 300,000 t, the latest progression is... more
Igoumenitsa awards tender to a consortium
The bidding process is over and a consortium has won. It is made up of Grimaldi Euromed, Minoan Lines Shipping, and Investment Construction Commercial & Industrial, and they will now thus acquire a 67% stake in the share capital of Greece’s Igoumenitsa Port Authority. Their... more
For direct rule in Kloten
ATS-Hellmann is giving up its air and sea freight activities in Switzerland and handing them over to Hellmann directly. From 2023 on, Hellmann will be working with its own Swiss national company and taking over part of its long-standing partner’s team and market presence in... more
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