Semi trailers for combined transport? 
The Studiengesellschaft für den Kombinierten Verkehr (SGKV), the LKZ Prien and the Fraunhofer Institute for Material Flow and Logistics IML have formed a consortium to conduct a survey on the use of semi trailers in combined transport (CT) in Germany. The purpose of the... more
UPS invests in Great Britain
UPS is continuing its strategic expansion in UK. The company has just opened an expanded air hub at East Midlands Airport (EMA). The extended hub now covers 36,000 sqm and is equipped with automated scanning and sortation systems. The USD 190 million investment allows the... more
Stef trials FresH2 in France
The FresH2 fuel cell project has reached the road trial phase. The hydrogen fuel-cell powered refrigeration unit will be tested in the comings days under actual usage conditions by Stef Chambéry site teams in France, as part of a delivery round for food products. The... more
Goeyvaerts goes for new equipment
Belgian Goeyvaerts, a family-owned crane rental company, is enhancing its equipment. The company has ordered two Generation 6 Konecranes Gottwald mobile harbour cranes for its growing rental fleet in ports in the Netherlands and Belgium. The order, booked in July, will be handed... more
Nasmyth Group hires Stuart Fyfe as CFO
Stuart Fyfe has been appointed chief financial officer of Nasmyth Group. For the past six years, he was group financial director for an international company, managing a portfolio of brands in the HVAC sector. Fyfe: “I am delighted to be joining Nasmyth Group as CFO, having... more
Ten years of serving Sofia
Qatar Airways marked a milestone in its history with Bulgaria, celebrating ten years since its first flight between Doha and Sofia on 14 September 2011. In October 2020, flights resumed post-Covid-19, as a tag on service with Bucharest, Romania. From 16 December 2021, flights... more
Cycling to air cargo in Brussels
The Flemish roads and traffic agency will build a new bicycle bridge over the Haachtsesteenweg in Steenokkerzeel from today, 15 September 2021. Lydia Peeters, minister of mobility and public works: "The bicycle bridge that is part of the F214 bicycle highway will... more
Bremerhaven container terminal 50 years old
In mid-September 1971 the ‘Containerkreuz Bremerhaven’ opened - and set a milestone on Bremerhaven's way to becoming Europe's top-ranking ports. Five years earlier, the first container had been unloaded in Germany, in Bremen's overseas port. It quickly became clear that a... more
Trains can also ship LNG
Rail wagon company VTG has successfully completed the first trial transport of cryogenic liquefied natural gas (LNG) for Liqvis, a builder and operator of LGN infrastructure and fully-owned subsidiary of the energy company Uniper, in Germany. The gas was transported in a... more
ICS proposes decarbonisation by tax
The International Chamber of Shipping (ICS) has presented to the International Maritime Organisation (IMO) a new proposal for a market measure (market based measure, MBM) in the form of a global fuel tax. Its aim is to “accelerate the deployment of fuels with zero carbon... more