Action to stop transport collapse 
Diesel prices are up by 63% globally since January 2021 and fuel price rises have hit operator margins by 9% in two months, but their net profit margins are often little more than 3%. The International Road Transport Union (IRU) has now launched a 17-point emergency plan for... more
Avianca Cargo contracts Jettainer
Unit load device (ULD) provider Jettainer and Avianca Cargo have entered into a five-year agreement governing pallet management and maintenance services for the cargo airline. Under the terms of the contract, the Colombian airline, which has its headquarters in Bogota, will... more
Field post service marks 30th anniversary
For the past 30 years, Germany’s “Feldpost” or field post service has provided members of the German Armed Forces serving abroad with post from home all year round. Some 270 field post personnel are involved in the service. Around 300,000 shipments with a combined weight of... more
WCI on a stable high
Drewry's World Container Index moved sidewards (-0.1%) this week, maintaining the level of USD 7,648.18 per feu. A comparison with the same period in 2021 shows the difference. The WCI is 24.7% higher than the same week in 2021. In detail, freight rates on Los Angeles –... more
Just few clicks – and containers start to move
Eurogate Intermodal (Egim) is launching the cloud-based, all-in-one booking platform railmybox to simplify rail-road combined transport. The end-to-end product digitalises the entire transport process from capacity planning and pricing to booking and billing. The... more
100 for Fercam
After a difficult year in 2020, the South Tyrolean company Fercam returned to pre-pandemic heights in 2021. Its EUR 943 million turnover was generated in 21 countries with more than 100 company-owned branches. While the full truck-load (FTL) business contributed a 52% share to... more
K+N elects Hansjörg Rodi to management board
The board of directors of Kuehne + Nagel International has appointed Hansjörg Rodi to its management board, effective 1 August 2022. Rodi will assume responsibility for road logistics and thus succeed Stefan Paul, who will become the new CEO of the Kuehne + Nagel Group on the... more
13 million boxes too much?
The transport time is the secret. The Copenhagen-based maritime consultancy Sea-Intelligence recently analysed the data provided by Hapag-Lloyd, looking at the development in both the size of the equipment fleet as well as the number of transported containers over the past... more
Maastricht at Flexport’s crossroads
The San Francisco-based forwarder Flexport has teamed up the US capacity provider Jet One X to offer Boeing B747F flights from Hong Kong to Maastricht, as well as from the same Dutch airport to Ho Chi Minh City (Vietnam). The technology platform and digital forwarder Flexport... more