Chinese bird flies to Austria 
At the Airpower air show which will take place tomorrow and the day after, 2 and 3 September 2022, in Zeltweg, Austria, the Chinese military transport aircraft Xian Y-20 "Kunpeng" (named after a large bird from Chinese mythology) will be seen up close for the first... more
Kuehne + Nagel welcomes Sarah Kreienbühl
Sarah Kreienbühl will join the management board of Kuehne + Nagel International as chief human resources officer (CHRO) on 1 April 2023, succeeding Lothar Harings, who will retire in June 2023. Kreienbühl will be responsible for global human resources management and... more
Support for Slovakian modal shift
The European Commission has approved a EUR 30 million Slovak scheme to encourage freight transport to shift from road-only to combined road-rail and road-inland waterway transport. The scheme will run until 31 December 2027. It is intended to support the development of new... more
A new integrated terminal at the Maasvlakte
Hutchison Ports and Terminal Investment Limited (TIL), the terminal branch of MSC, are working on a joint project to develop a new container terminal at Maasvlakte in Rotterdam. It will be built in the Europahaven, which already houses the Hutchison Ports ECT Delta terminal... more
Leisure Cargo to be Virgin Cargo's GSA in Turkey
Virgin Atlantic Cargo has contracted Leisure Kargo as new GSA in Turkey, effective 1 September 2022. Representation will initially cover exports from four departure points in the country; Istanbul, Ankara, Izmir and Antalya. By working with interline partners in the region,... more
Geodis and the locus standi
Locus Robotics will deploy 1,000 Locus Bots to Geodis warehouses around the world. The units will be autonomous mobile robots (AMRs) for fulfilment purposes. The distribution will take place over the next 24 months. Geodis currently uses Locus AMRs at 14 sites globally,... more
Ben Hart named UIPA executive director 
The Utah Inland Port Authority (UIPA) board of directors named Ben Hart as the organisation’s new executive director on Wednesday 24 August 2022. Hart has served as deputy director of the Utah governor’s office of economic opportunity (Go Utah) since March 2017 and was... more
Strong half year for Koper
In the first six months of 2022, the Slovenian Luka Koper saw an effective throughput of 11.7 million t, an uptick of 13% compared H1/2021. The group was able to increase its turnover by 35% compared to EUR 155.1 million (H1/2021: EUR 114.7 million). Containers continue to... more
Trucking LNG from Croatia northwards
The energy company Avenir LNG has signed a joint collaboration agreement (JCA) with the Croatian LNG trade company PPD. The partners will initially focus on the sale and distribution of LNG by truck and small-scale LNG vessels from the Krk LNG Terminal (Croatia) to off-grid... more
Cleaner winged shoes
More than 1 million consignments a year by rail. Hermes Germany recently transported cross-border consignments by rail for the first time. The company aims to shift 1.3 million consignments a year on a 625 km route between Magdeburg, 130 km west of Berlin, and Łódz, 130 km... more