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
Swiss back to normal service
In order to be able to transport additional medical supplies during the most intensive period of the pandemic, Swiss International Air Lines removed a total of 810 economy class seats from three of its B777-300ERs in spring 2020, for the first time in its history. This... more
Mega merger for Cargotec and Konecranes
Cargotec and Konecranes are merging to create a global player in sustainable material flow. The merger is expected to take place by the end of H1/2022. “Today marks a major step forward for our companies,” said selected future company president and CEO Mika Vehviläinen. The... more
Reducing age of fleet to under two years
Würfel Spedition in Germany, which specialises in jumbo swap body transports, has expanded its own truck fleet with several new DAF XF 480 swap body vehicles with bodies from SDG Modultechnik. The investment is part of the regular fleet modernisation. The average age of... more