The sky's the limit 
Czech ground handling specialist Skyport has been awarded the contract to handle import and export cargo for Ukrainian airline Skyup at Prague Airport. The contract follows Skyup Airlines' launch of a new air cargo service between Boryspil International Airport, Ukraine, and... more
Chartered shipbrokers elect new leadership
The Institute of Chartered Shipbrokers, the professional body for the commercial shipping industry worldwide, has officially welcomed its new executive leadership team at the controlling council. Glenn Murphy, FICS of the Ireland branch (left) and the Institute's vice... more
Emission-free on the Baltic Sea
Ferry operator Scandlines has signed a contract with the Turkish shipyard Cemre for the construction of an emission-free cargo ferry to be deployed on the Puttgarden-Rødby route. The ferry is scheduled to begin operating between Germany and Denmark in 2024. It will have a... more
Workshop services 25 locomotives per week
DB Cargo continues to invest in its site in Halle, Germany, where the German railfreight company has set up and inaugurated a EUR 26 million workshop for line and shunting locomotives. The workshop has six working stations. 75 employees make sure that 25 locomotives of DB... more
Six helicopters repatriated
Chapman Freeborn, family member of Avia Solutions Group, and Volga-Dnepr Airlines have successfully worked with McDermott Aviation to demobilise helicopters from Greece after the wildfires. This most recent operation involved the repatriation of six McDermott Aviation Bell 214B... more
Work begins on Bremen's Columbus quay
Work on the construction of the new Columbus quay in Bremerhaven began in early November. A large part of the construction is scheduled for completion in autumn 2023. By then, 620 m of quay will have been driven into the Weser silt, the spaces in between filled with sand,... more
Dnata chooses Guillaume Crozier
Dnata, a provider of global air and travel services has promoted Guillaume Crozier to senior vice president, UAE Cargo. Crozier has been with Dnata since 2011. Most recently, he has managed operational performance as well as innovation and product development across Dnata's... more
Joining forces to optimise rail operations
PJ Monitoring (PJM), an Austria-based system specialist for rail transport, and technology group Voith, which is headquartered in Germany, will work together to develop a system that combines coupler-assisted automatic train inauguration and the safe remote-controlled decoupling... more
Avianca's financial moves
Minneapolis-headquartered global alternative investment firm Castlelake, which set up Castlelake Aviation in September, has completed the sale and leaseback of six A330-200 freight aircraft to Avianca with a ten-year lease term. Francisco Raddatz, VP of fleet at Avianca:... more
Large investment in intermodal equipment
Russian transport group Fesco has acquired nine thousand new containers, bringing its fleet up to more than 100 thousand teu. Three thousand forty-foot and one thousand twenty-foot containers have already been built at the factory in Dalian in China and delivered to the Fesco... more