A direct link from Northern Europe to China 
Hamburg-based carrier Hapag-Lloyd will soon replace its Far East Loop 6, 7 and 8 services. The shipping company is launching a new direct China Germany Express (CGX) service. The two-port loop product will directly connect Northern Europe with Southern China on a weekly... more
More intermodal links to Rotterdam and UK
A new five weekly train now connects the CT terminal in the inland port Bayernhafen Nürnberg (Germany) with Rotterdam Cobelfret (The Netherlands). From Rotterdam, there are ferry links to UK and Ireland. Containers, semi-trailers and swap bodies can be transported on this... more
Sky Express signs for Champ’s TGC
Sky Express has chosen Champ’s customs compliance solution Traxon Global Customs (TGC). The growing airline will use the service between Greece and UK. The airline needed a solution to automate and efficiently handle all customs requirements now and in the future. TGC... more
French acquisition in USA
ID Logistics has been interested in the new continent since it set up its first own branch in USA in 2019. Now the company is purchasing all the shares of Kane Logistics, USA-based warehousing and contract logistics provider which the Kane family founded in 1930. The... more
Liège's inland port on the rise
Belgium’s Port of Liège handled 15 million t of goods on the waterway in 2021, an increase of 7% compared to the previous year. It also reported an 1% increase in overall traffic (water-rail-road) compared to 2020, amounting to 19.5 million t handled in all of the 33 port areas.... more
Vessels Value welcomes Alexander Adamou
Online valuation and data provider Vessels Value has appointed Alexander Adamou to the board of directors. As an experienced mathematician and modeller in the shipping industry, he will oversee the scientific research that underpins the company’s products in his new role as... more
West-east service via Moscow
Fesco is launching a regular rail service from St. Petersburg to Chita and Blagoveshchensk via Moscow. With the new train, customers now can deliver their goods to the Trans-Baikal Territory and the Amur Region via the capital of Russia as part of a single logistics service.... more
Logistics park in border triangle
Panattoni is building a new warehouse, the Park Freiburg Süd, on a brownfield site in the border triangle between Germany, France and Switzerland. The speculative object is being designed in two self-sufficient hall sections. Companies from the light industrial and logistics... more
Scandlines’ CFO to step down
Scandlines' CFO Per Johannesen Madsen will leave the company by the end of August 2022 at the latest. He has been CFO and has served on the executive board since 2012, responsible for the group's overall financial management and reporting. In his position as CFO, Johannesen... more
AXS Marine and Baltic Exchange join forces
The Baltic Exchange, an affiliate of the Singapore Exchange (SGX) since 2016, is integrating the access to its indices via AXS Marine's chartering and analytical SaaS platforms. This combination enables charterers, shipowners, shipbrokers and freight analysts to deliver... more