Cargo iQ improves QMS for 25th anniversary 
Cross-stakeholder organisation Cargo iQ has made key updates to its quality management system (QMS), adding a visibility maps function and new milestones to its route map planning as it celebrates 25 years of operation. Cargo iQ route maps, which enable the journey of an air... more
A good year for the MLP Group
The Polish MLP Group, which specialises in logistics real estate, improved its position in 2021. MLP Group offers warehousing space in large-scale logistics facilities (big box) and business parks (urban/city logistics). Last year, the group increased the value of net assets... more
More gas fuelling stations in Scandinavia
European fuel and service card specialist UTA-Edenred is further expanding its network of LNG and CNG stations in Scandinavia through a partnership with the Nordic energy company Gasum. The cooperation allows UTA to integrate Finland into its network for the first time. 39... more
GS1 France chooses Didier Veloso
Didier Veloso has been appointed executive chairman of GS1 France. An HEC graduate, he began his career at Nestlé France in 1992 and moved to Unilever in 1997, where he held various international roles. Veloso returned to France in 2018 and created his consulting company. ... more
A new block train between France and Germany
Ekol Logistics has opened a new block train route between Sète, France and Cologne, Germany, in cooperation with DFDS. The service represents an alternative link between Turkey and Europe via Trieste, Ekol said. The partners expect business volumes to grow on Italy’s railway... more
ID Logistics chooses Robin Otto
Robin Otto has been named CEO of ID Logistics Germany. He brings nearly 20 years of experience in international contract logistics, including 13 years in French companies. Otto holds an MBA in business administration from the Technical University of Berlin. He began his... more
Improving intermodal links to Turkey and Greece
Kombiverkehr in Germany has augmented its services to and from Turkey and Greece, adding a fourth departure per week and direction between Cologne (Germany) and the Port of Trieste (Italy). Containers and semi-trailers with full profile P400 can be transported to Northern... more
Kiel trade index with a gloomy global outlook
Faced with the threatening prospect of a Russian invasion of Ukraine, world trade already declined significantly in February. According to the latest data from the Kiel Trade Indicator published by the Kiel Institute for the World Economy (IfW), global trade is expected to fall... more
P&O Ferries and its routes in peril
Cargo and passenger ferry operator P&O Ferries has laid off 800 members of its workforce of 3,000. The running services have also been blanked "for the next few days", as the company said. In a statement, P&O Ferries described its current economic... more
Kukla in Calais
In February 2022, forwarding company Robert Kukla set up an office in Calais, its first location in France. With Kukla France, the Munich-based logistics service provider is expanding its network to a total of twelve branches in nine countries. Kukla France is a joint... more