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
Iván Nash Vila named CFO
Iván Nash Vila will be joining Swissport International as CFO on 1 October 2021. He succeeds Alexander Gradow, who has been acting as interim CFO since August. "We are pleased to have Nash Vila join Swissport as CFO," said Warwick Brady, president & CEO of... more
Reverse logistics becomes a fashion
Global logistics company Geodis is adding returns management to its range of e-commerce services. Retailers and e-merchants can now make use of the group's end-to-end technological and logistical solution covering the entire value chain, from order orchestration to product... more
Wilhelmshaven finds new investor
The rumours have come to an end: Hamburg carrier Hapag-Lloyd is set to acquire a 30% stake in Container Terminal Wilhelmshaven (CTW) and 50% of the shares of Rail Terminal Wilhelmshaven (RTW) at Jade Weser Port. Terminal operator Eurogate, founded in 1999, continues to hold the... more
Dunkerque-Port picks Hervé Ducloy
Hervé Ducloy has been appointed financial director/accounting officer of Dunkerque-Port. A graduate of the IEP Lyon (political and administrative studies 1995 / 1997), the Ecole Nationale du Trésor Public (1999 / 2000) and the CNAM Versailles (2004 / 2005), Ducloy is a deputy... more
Maersk kicks MCI overboard
It is an investment by a Chinese global player: China International Marine Containers (CIMC), headquartered in Shenzen, has agreed with A.P. Moller - Maersk to buy Maersk Container Industry (MCI), a manufacturer of refrigerated containers. In these challenging times for... more
Extending capacities near Nuremberg
Near Nuremberg, Hermes Fulfilment is expanding the capacities of its Anbach logistics centre by opening a new external storage facility in Freystadt on 1 October 2021. The 20,200 sqm logistics building in the main Ansbach warehouse was recently increased by renting additional... more
UK driver shortage hits a peak
The disruption in the UK caused by a shortage of lorry drivers has intensified over the past week, with petrol stations feeling the brunt of the problem because of an inability to receive sufficient supplies of fuel combined with ‘panic buying’ by the general public. Many petrol... more