First 5G rail terminal to be located in Hungary 
It is a unique rail logistics project: construction has just begun on the new East-West Gate Intermodal Terminal (EWG) in Fenyeslitke, Hungary. As Europe's largest smart railway logistics terminal, to be completed by Q1/2022, it will be the first terminal on the continent to use... more
Over 420 sites certified
The French group Bolloré Logistics has run a big audit and obtained an extension on its multi-site certification that comprises all the standards relating to workplace safety (ISO 45001:2018), quality management (ISO 9001:2015) and the environment (ISO 14001:2015). More than... more
Jürgen Erdt joins ITG Group
The ITG Group recently opened a new air & sea office in Atlanta (USA), which will be headed by Bryant Goss as regional manager southeast. Guido Voss, who helped establish ITG's US branch in 1994, will continue to serve as president of ITG International Transports. ITG... more
Boluda in action for Canary islands
The eruption of the Cumbre Vieja volcano on the island of La Palma keeps taking its toll. Now, Boluda Shipping, the international transport and logistics division of Boluda Corporación Marítima, supported a plan organised by the government of the Canary Islands, the ministry for... more
Trial started at service station in Austria
LTE (Logistics & Transport Europe) has just celebrated its 20th anniversary. The company started with cement transports from Marchegg to Waldmühle in Austria - at that time still under the license of its mother company GKB, the Graz-Köflacher Bahn and Busbetrieb. Today,... more
New terminal for trans-Eurasian railfreight
The “East-West” centre in Chernyakhovsk in the Russian Kaliningrad region is now open. The new rail terminal can manage 450,000 standard containers (teu) a year and will transfer the containers from wide-gauge (1,520 mm) tracks onto narrower European gauge (1,435 mm) tracks.... more
Tachofresh welcomes Klaus Burgstaller
Klaus Burgstaller has assumed the role of business development director at Tachofresh in Wildau (Germany). His previous executive positions were sales vice-president at Lostnfound Switzerland, director of sales and purchasing for Datamobile Liechtenstein and channel manager at... more
Delays eating up capacity
On the basis of its global liner performance (GLP) and trade capacity outlook (TCO) databases, the Copenhagen-headquartered maritime consultancy Sea-Intelligence has measured the impact that congestion and vessel delays have had on the global deployed liner capacity. At the... more
Partners charter AN-124 for Dubai Expo 2020
Russian Volga-Dnepr Airlines and Albion Aviation Group, based in Sharjah and London, found an effective solution for the transport of dedicated equipment for the Dubai Expo 2020 which opened a week ago. The cargo, weighing over 20 t and measuring 418 cbm in total consisted of... more
Record order for electric trucks from Denmark
Volvo Trucks has received an order for 100 FM Electric trucks from DFDS, Northern Europe's largest shipping and logistics company. The deal is the largest commercial order to-date for Volvo electric trucks, and one of the largest ever for heavy-duty electric trucks worldwide,... more