Grocery retailer to go electric 
Volvo Trucks is supplying a fully electric truck to ICA Sweden, as it begins its transition towards electric transport. The truck will deliver refrigerated goods in the Stockholm city area. Apart from being fossil free, the Volvo FL and Volvo FE Electric vehicle... more
Laso's transport for Leixoes
Laso Transportes, a Portuguese road haulier specialising in the transport of conventional goods and project cargo, recently took on a challenging assignment for its client Central de Cervejas in Santarém, 70 km from Lisbon. Some of the cargo exceeded 5.50 m in width. The... more
Alliance to ship vaccines
The global airline alliance Skyteam Cargo has launched "V Excellence", which covers the transport of Covid-19 shipments moved under the members' product family "customised vaccines", offering priority handling, and "specialised pharma", the solution... more
Crew crisis on the rise again?
Shipping companies fear that the number of seafarers affected by the crew change crisis is on the rise due to travel restrictions imposed by governments to combat the new variants of the virus. The latest industry analyses show that 200,000 seafarers are currently affected, a... more
Overnight network grows
Railfreight company DB Cargo has been operating its door-to-door service EVplus between Hamburg and Cologne (Germany) since summer 2020. Seven new domestic routes will be added this year.The Hamburg–Mannheim, Hamburg–Berlin, Hamburg–Stuttgart and Bremen–Stuttgart connections... more
Efficient tool to administer master data
The KV 4.0 project, which aims to digitalise intermodal supply chains from beginning to end, has been completed. Now, an operating company will be created to market the data hub resulting from the digitalisation project.The industry representatives involved in the project were... more
Rushton rises from general manager to director
Steve Rushton, former general manager of Crown Couriers Limited, has been appointed company director. Tim Seagers, who founded the Tamworth-based business in 1990, said that "despite the challenges triggered by the pandemic, the company has continued to grow and plans to... more
Newbuild for DShip Carriers
Hamburg-based DShip Carriers has added a F-500 vessel to its fleet. The ‘MV Charlie’ was launched at the beginning of March. It is equipped with two Liebherr cranes, featuring a lifting capacity of 250 t each, and has a deadweight of 12,385 t.Utilising energy-saving technology,... more
Fedex can't help winning
Fedex remains a winner of the 2020 pandemic. The company recently reported its consolidated results for the quarter ended 30 November 2020.In the three months from September to November, revenues surged from USD 17.3 billion to USD 20.6 million (+16.1%) compared to the same... more
DFI Partners: parting of the ways
Since 11 March 2021, Dietz Fleischer Industrial Partners (DFI), a specialist in the development of commercial and logistics properties headquartered in Bensheim (Germany), has operated as an independent company, with Andreas Fleischer as its sole managing director.Following a... more