Hellmann got around in 2020 
It is a look back in satisfaction. Despite the well-known challenges last year, Germany-based Hellmann is content with financial year 2020 and Q1/2021. While the first half of 2020 was characterised by declines in volume, especially in air freight, volumes for the year as a... more
Ahrend joins company management
Schunck Group, an insurance broker for Germany's logistics industry, is expanding the existing management team of its own insurance broker, Atralosecur GmbH, founded in 2017, with Daniel Ahrend as of 1 June. Ahrend has been working in the insurance industry for almost 20... more
Kerr promoted to DPD UK's CEO
Today, 1 June 2021, Elaine Kerr assumes her new position of CEO of parcel delivery company DPD UK. She has worked for DPD for over 28 years, joining as a sales executive based in the North West, followed by roles of customer relationship manager and head of CRM before being... more
Unmanned aviation partners in Ireland
Several partners from the UK and Ireland - Skyports, an air taxi and cargo drone vertiport provider, Future Mobility Campus Ireland (FMCI), drone training and certification body Avtrain, and Shannon Group’s international aviation services centre - have signed a MoU to establish... more
Truck of 2021 enhances fleet
Swiss Ferroflex Group has a truck fleet with 16 tractor units and special trailers which it deploys to deliver steel and construction equipment. Now, three new Man tractor units are expanding the fleet: two TGX 18.470 4×2 BLS and one TGX 26.470 6×2/4 BLS. All three vehicles... more
First batch of 680 mega trailers ordered
Dachser is purchasing ‘mega trailers’ to convert its fleet. Because of their more generous cargo space dimensions - with otherwise the same length and width – these trailers achieve better fuel economy than standard semi-trailers, especially over long distances, the forwarder... more
Atran takes over two more B737-800BCF
Volga-Dnepr Group member, express cargo carrier Atran Airlines took delivery of two 737-800 Boeing converted freighter from GE Capital Aviation Services (Gecas) in May. They join the two B737-800BCF freighters both partners announced in October of 2018 and which entered... more
WW and Gothenburg fortify partnership
The major ro-ro operator Wallenius Wilhelmsen (WW) is increasing its frequencies and destinations in the port of Gothenburg (Sweden), in response to growing demand for vehicle transport and breakbulk and project loads. WW recently added direct services from Gothenburg to the... more
156 wagons delivered
Switzerland-headquartered wagon leasing company Transwaggon has completed the delivery of 156 wagons to wood procurement company Mercer Holz. The vehicles will carry woodchips. The final 27 wagons with 81 containers recently arrived in Stendal (Saxony-Anhalt, Germany). The... more
Paneco to go on stream in July 2021
A new transport network is set to launch at the beginning of July. In 2019, the European Freight Association of International Freight Forwarders (Elvis), Kommodus' logistics networks (Poland), Cargo24 (Switzerland) and ABC Business Network (Italy) joined forces to create Paneco,... more