Riverboat delivery service pilot in London 
An NHS trust has become the first in UK to pilot a daily riverboat delivery service. Guy’s and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust has teamed up with Ceva Logistics and Livett’s Group to trial the service during three months on the River Thames. If the proof-of-concept pilot,... more
First trains to run on vegetable oil
Tarmac and its railfreight partner DB Cargo UK will be fuelling environmentally friendly hydro-treated vegetable oil (HVO) to all freight trains running between Tarmac’s Mountsorrel site in Leicestershire and its rail-fed asphalt plant in the centre of Birmingham. HVO is one of... more
Crossing the Channel and the Atlantic
Customers of Lufthansa Cargo's special speed company Time Matters now have access to more than 30 additional direct flights per week between Paris CDG and ten US stations (Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Detroit, Houston, Los Angeles, Miami, New York, San Francisco and Washington).... more
Geodis greening its fleet
Geodis is investing in a fleet of special vehicles for urban deliveries in France. The freight forwarder’s French organisation has ordered 200 units that will be fuelled with biogas. Delivery is scheduled for the end of 2021. "By greening road transport in the last mile... more
Unprecedented profits continue
The Copenhagen-based maritime consultancy Sea-Intelligence reported that the eleven largest shipping lines generated combined operating profits of USD 13.3 billion in H2/2020. Results for the large shipping companies remained equally strong in Q1/2021. While the first... more
Czech carrier receives 35 wagons
Ermewa has extended its long-standing cooperation with its business partner, Czech railroad company Carbosped, by signing a contract for the lease of 35 new Eanos railfreight cars. Carbosped will use the leased wagons to carry coal from Rotterdam to Ostrava in Czechia. The... more
Cars made in Romania shifted to rail
Gefco and Renault have extended their agreement for the Mioveni-Constanta and Constanta-Bucharest finished-vehicle (FVL) flows for a further three years and retained FVL flows to Italy and Belgium. To achieve commercial optimisation and synergy with the existing flows, the... more
Big money for Paycargo
Freight payment platform Paycargo has found more investors. A USD 125 million Series B investment was secured by global venture capital and private equity firm Insight Partners. The freight payments network currently counts 67,000 active users remitting and receiving... more
Cargo iQ: new board members to continue strategy
Cargo iQ, a cross-stakeholder supply chain quality management organisation, recently appointed two new board members, Fedor Nokikov (photo) as marketing director at Volga-Dnepr Group and Clark Fritzsch as global head of business process management at Hellmann. It also re-elected... more
CNH Industrial finds CEO for On-Highway
CNH Industrial has named Gerrit Marx as the designated CEO of its On-Highway business, which is soon to be spun-off. Independent operations are set to start in early 2022, with Marx at their head. On-Highway will include the brands Iveco for heavy, medium and light... more