More clients in the Midlands 
The Segro Logistics Park East Midlands Gateway has sold two more units in UK. The logistics company Arvato agreed a lease for a 95,000 sqm surface in September 2021, whilst it was still under construction. The provider has also signed a pre-let agreement with a supply chain... more
Shypple chooses Champ’s tracking solution
Netherlands-based digital freight forwarder Shypple has implemented Champ’s Traxon Premium Tracking. The software allows the user to register interest in a shipment and receive automatic status updates through its lifecycle. Premium Tracking enables high visibility with a... more
Andreas Fuchshuber appointed head of sales
Andreas Fuchshuber has been head of sales at Spedition Robert Kukla at its headquarters in Munich since January this year. He has been working in the logistics industry for over 20 years, most recently for the Logwin Group. After his apprenticeship and first years as a... more
Game changer is on track
This time, the symposium of the association of freight car owners in Germany (VPI) was all about digital automatic coupling (DAC). As VPI chairman Malte Lawrenz explained, the first steps on the long road to the Europe-wide introduction of the DAC technology have been taken.... more
38th rail service launched
GB Railfreight has introduced a new rail service for Maritime Transport in UK to connect the Hutchison Ports of Felixstowe with Birch Coppice in the Midlands. The new link is the 38th daily rail service from the port and the 15th operated by GB Railfreight from Felixstowe. The... more
Advantages of a regional airport
To kick off the new year, Paderborn/Lippstadt Airport (PAD) is implementing another major cargo project. After the aid delivery of medical protective equipment to Namibia in July last year, Emotive Systems, based in Paderborn, now had three wide-bodied freighters of the Turkish... more
Philippos Philis is ECSA's new president
At its general assembly, ECSA (European Community Shipowners' Associations) elected Philippos Philis as its new president for a two-year term, with Karin Orsel as new vice-president. Philippos Philis founded Lemissoler in 1996 and has been chairman and CEO of the shipping... more
First e-truck for Swiss forwarder
Edi Bürgin, managing director of E. Bürgin Transporte based in Stetten in Schaffhausen (Switzerland), had been talking about acquiring an electric truck for years. In December, the time had come. The haulier was the first Swiss customer to take a Scania battery electric vehicle... more
Bluebird enters widebody ACMI market
At the end of December 2021, Bluebird Nordic concluded lease agreements for three Boeing 777-300ER aircraft via its mother company Avia Solutions Group (ASG). At present, the aircraft are in passenger configuration but will proceed for conversion in 2024 and will be utilised as... more
New CEP link from USA to Europe
The e-commerce boom continues. The DPD group has formed a strategic partnership with Asendia USA to provide e-commerce parcel delivery services from USA to Europe. Asendia is a joint venture of the Groupe La Poste and Swiss Post, delivering to about 200 destinations globally.... more