Movianto: appetite comes with eating 
Movianto, a service provider specialising in logistics for the healthcare and pharmaceutical industries and part of the Walden Group founded in France in 1951, wants to continue earning good money from the associated logistics services even after the global anti-pandemic... more
Refrigerated containers equipped with GPS/GSM
Fesco has acquired another 300 new 4o ft refrigerated containers of increased capacity. They will be delivered in Q1/2022. The Russian transport company has already purchased 300 refrigerated containers this year. As a result of this new transaction, the fleet of Fesco's... more
Bis Henderson Space expands team
Warehouse space strategist Bis Henderson Space has appointed contract management specialist Alex Murray as business development manager. Murray has held several senior account management roles at British Airways, Philip Morris International and Culina Logistics. Most... more
GW stays pushy in Bavaria
The shopping spree continues. Transport and logistics company Gebrüder Weiss has added yet another location to its network in southern Germany. It is taking over the operations of Wolf Internationale Spedition and Air System Luftfracht Spedition in Straubing, Lower Bavaria.... more
Nelt terminal extends outreach from Belgrade
Forwarding, intermodal and logistics distribution company Nelt has invested EUR 2 million in increasing capacities at its intermodal terminal in Belgrade (Serbia). The facility's usable area has been expanded to 30,000 sqm. With the upgrades, the hub can now receive and handle... more
"Connecting Europe Express" in Switzerland
On its journey through Switzerland yesterday (Tuesday, 28 September), the EU's special train for the "Year of Rail" also made a stop at the Basel Wolf container terminal. At this occasion, the federal office of transport, the Swiss association of public transport... more
64 locomotives purchased in three years
European Loc Pool (ELP) is further expanding its fleet of state-of-the-art 6-axle hybrid locomotives: The Switzerland-headquartered leasing company has again ordered ten EuroDual locomotives of the Germany and Austria configuration and four EuroDuals for Norway and Sweden from... more
Walker Logistics chooses Adrian Skirrow
Online fulfilment and supply chain solutions specialist Walker Logistics has appointed Adrian Skirrow as its new head of operations. With over 20 years of leadership experience, Skirrow has held a number of senior operational positions in the manufacturing and logistics sectors.... more
Global container flows better than expected
The container throughput index of the RWI - Leibniz Institute for Economic Research and the Institute of Shipping Economics and Logistics (ISL) increased by 3.2 points (seasonally adjusted) to 126.6 points in August, according to the current flash estimate. The value of the... more
Lufthansa Cargo in digital research project
Lufthansa Cargo has joined the "digital test field air cargo" initiative, a new federal research project commissioned by Germany's ministry of transport and coordinated by the Fraunhofer Institute for Material Flow and Logistics. The aim is to increase the... more