Grangemouth enhances rail facility 
The Scottish port of Grangemouth is extending its railfreight offering to cement its position as the key strategic freight and export/import hub for Scotland. The GBP 3 million (EUR 3.3 million) investment will significantly scale up and modernise the port’s current rail... more
Medical contract for British player
Current Health, a provider of wearable healthcare devices and machine learning, aims to improve the delivery of patient care, deterioration prediction and research initiatives. To this end, the company has contracted Seko Logistics to enhance its global supply chain. Current... more
From northern Italy to Sweden in 48 hours
Kombiverkehr intends to increase the range of combined transport services on the important north-south corridor between Scandinavia, Finland, the Baltic states and Italy by launching an additional block train product. Starting on 1 February 2021, a new direct train will run... more
Canaryfly opts for full-freighter
The Spanish airline Canaryfly is expanding its fleet, which was only made up of passenger aircraft until now. Today, 15 December 2020, the company put its first full-freighter into operation.The unit, converted from an ATR 72-500, has a maximum cargo capacity of almost 9 t. It... more
Belgian carrier continues steel transports
Lineas has extended its partnership with NLMK Europe. The Belgian railfreight operator will continue to drive the majority of train services for the global steel company's Belgian and French operations for the coming years. The partnership goes back around twenty years, with... more
Sea-Intelligence expands management team
Sea-Intelligence, a Copenhagen-based provider of analysis in the container shipping industry, has appointed Bjorn Vang Jensen (photo), Jochen Gutschmidt, and David Macleod as vice presidents of the newly created advisory services - global supply chain, and Michael Helweg as VP... more
Transporting more Christmas
The Cwmbran (Southeast wales)-based logistics company Bridgetime Transport's services for its customer, Festive Productions, are in full swing. In the third year of their partnership, the Pall-Ex and Fortec shareholder member Bridgetime provides all of the logistics... more
'Shift2030' campaigns for railfreight
A new initiative has been founded to support Europe’s railfreight sector. The aim of ‘Shift2030’ is to bring together all players involved in efforts to increase the modal shift of cargo from the roads to the railways and thus help achieve the EU’s climate goals for the... more
Brexit on the other side of the channel
Normandy’s channel ports - Le Havre for Haropa and Caen-Ouistreham, Cherbourg and Dieppe for Ports of Normandy - have joined forces to help supply chain actors to be as ready as they can be for Brexit when it comes into force on 1 January next, producing a series of handy fact... more
Tammaro's new warehouse on stream
Switzerland-based Tammaro Transports has opened its new logistics centre, spanning more than 8,000 sqm, in the French-speaking Vaudois region. The privately-owned company has been moving homes and goods since 1979. Tammaro Transports, which relies on a network of 250 agents... more