Shorter transit times to Romania and Turkey 
In response to increasing demand, ÖBB Rail Cargo Group (RCG) is introducing a new non-stop service: containers (20 to 45 feet), swap bodies and craneable semi-trailers, including hazardous goods, now travel non-stop by rail from Genk (Belgium) via the Ruhr region in Germany to... more
Finnair Cargo partners with Wisetech Global
Finnair Cargo, one of the largest air cargo carriers in the Nordic and Baltic regions, and Wisetech Global, provider of the logistics execution platform Cargowise, have joined forces to enable freight forwarders to efficiently choose, book, confirm and change shipments, in... more
Lilian Pichelingat joins Upply as COO
Upply has appointed Lilian Pichelingat as director of operations to lead the commercial and operational development of the company’s solutions. Pichelingat has a strong background in the freight forwarding and chartering industry. Notably, he was operations director at... more
Buying 3 million litres of SAF
Bolloré Logistics and United Airlines have inked an agreement to jointly purchase three million litres of sustainable aviation fuel for 2022. This new supply will be used on all the routes operated by Bolloré Logistics, in all geographical areas. The price of the fuel was... more
The gods hold their breath
In July 2022, the container throughput index published by the RWI Leibniz Institute for Economic Research and the Institute of Shipping Economics and Logistics (ISL) remained stable at 126.2 points, unchanged (seasonally adjusted) from the month before. According to the... more
Gefco at the Strait
The Gefco Group has opened a new logistics centre in Algeciras (Spain) to provide its customers with easier access to Europe and Morocco. The company is aiming to build a bridgehead in one of the key locations for the transit of goods between Europe and Africa close to the... more
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