DPD to swallow City Sprint 
DPD UK, part of the European DPD Group owned by La Poste in France, will acquire City Sprint, a major same-day and last-mile delivery company based in UK. The financial details of the acquisition were not disclosed and the transaction is still subject to regulatory clearance.... more
Baltic port of Lübeck exceeds results of 2019
Lübecker Hafen-Gesellschaft (LHG) handled 12 million t of goods in H1/2021, making up for the Corona-related shortfalls of 2020. "With an increase of 4% compared to 2019, we have continued our earlier successes," said LHG managing director Sebastian Jürgens.... more
Real-time monitoring of wagon fleet
Eurowagon is investing in its fleet: the Polish freight wagon leasing company is equipping its wagons with sensors from Swiss IoT provider Nexxiot to improve the transparency and safety of its fleet and its cargo. The gateway devices, the so-called Globehoppers, will be... more
Sixth Swiss Humanitarian Aid flight to Asia
Switzerland is helping several Asian and African countries to fight the Covid-19 pandemic. On 28 July 2021, Swiss Humanitarian Aid dispatched 100 respirators and more than a million antigen tests (26 t) to Bangkok. The provision of this aid, which took off from Zurich airport in... more
Growth development is two years ahead
Container transportation by rail between Europe and China is growing even more strongly than predicted by UTLC ERA, the operator that is responsible for 90% of all Eurasian transit freight. The reasons for the boom are complex: sea transport suffered various setbacks in... more
Flying the champs back home
A group of very special champions have made their way home from the Japanese capital on special flights operated by Emirates. Emirates Skycargo, the freight division of the Dubai-based carrier, operated 16 charter flights to fly 247 horses from Liege to Tokyo-HND and back.... more
Rail Baltica hub opened
The Kaunas Intermodal Terminal (KIT) in Lithuania is now in operation. When all works and formalities on the Rail Baltica railway section between Kaunas and Palemonas have been completed, the new hub will be the most north-eastern point of the European railway system that can be... more
First 737-800BCF for Avia AM Leasing
Avia AM Leasing has welcomed its first 737-800 Boeing converted freighter (BCF) to the fleet. The passenger-to-freighter (P2F) conversion project, performed at the Taikoo (Shandong) Aircraft Engineering Company (Staeco) facility in Jinan, China, was the first of its kind for the... more
QCS expands management team and network
The management team of Quick Cargo Service, a German Iata agent established in 1974, now has eight members: Dieter Haltmayer, as president, Stephan Haltmayer as CEO, Jennifer Melnyk as director of finance and Heidi Haltmayer as director of administration & marketing, Nico... more
Railway hits record levels
Container rail traffic in the Port of Barcelona grew by 46% in H1/2021, recording a total throughput of 161,735 teu. With this significant increase, railway's share reached a record level of 16.1%, which is mainly due to the commitment that large retailers and industrial... more