Pharma flights before the vaccine 
Better safe than sorry! 246 airfreight containers with their refrigeration units active flew from Italy to the USA between October and December of last year. Qatar Airways Cargo and DHL Global Forwarding used containers leased from Dokasch as well as Envirotainer. more
First LNG freight locomotive 
Estonian state-owned rail company Operail is building its first LNG freight locomotive. Construction work on the locomotive, which saves 30% on fuel costs and emits 20% less carbon dioxide and 70% less sulphur dioxide, started a few days ago, after the supply difficulties caused... more
Linz Air Cargo Academy achieves Iata status
The Grownow Group has announced its cooperation with Iata and the appointment of its Air Cargo Academy, founded last year at Linz airport, as Iata regional training partner enabling innovative learning methods and education based on Iata global standards. Roland Zistler,... more
Fast BTK corridor
RZD Logistics and Turkish logistics operator Pasifik Eurasia Logistics have dispatched the first consignment of a container train from Turkey to Russia along the Baku-Tbilisi-Kars rail corridor (BTK). A train pulling 15 forty-foot containers departed recently from Marshandiz... more
Antonov charters across Africa
Airland Logistics, member of the Worldwide Project Consortium (WWPC) for Denmark, has completed the delivery of two AN-12 charter flights from Lusaka, Zambia to Bamako, Mali for a mining client. The nature of the cargo was hazardous and the product is commonly used when... more
Expanding global finance & controlling
Frank Metschies assumed his new role as director of global finance & business controlling at the owner-managed logistics company Röhlig at the beginning of February 2021. He succeeds Mike Williamson, who is taking on new challenges as CFO of a listed logistics company in UK.... more
Two stronger links instead of one
Two links instead of one: The Naples-headquartered Grimaldi Group has rearranged its connections between Italy and Greece. In the coming weeks, the daily Ancona-Igoumenitsa-Patras link will be further enhanced, with two exclusive services from the Doric port dedicated to... more
Belarus and Russia join forces
Belarusian Railway and Russian Railways (RZD) have signed an agreement on cooperation in rail traffic, the procedure for transferring wagons, containers and cargo and maintaining the railway infrastructure between transfer stations. The companies reviewed their cooperation... more
Several appointments at the American Club
Shipowners Claims Bureau, Managers of the American Club, report recent changes in their US-based teams: Steve Ogullukian, who joined the Managers in 2003, has been selected as deputy global underwriting director, a position assumed in parallel with his ongoing duties as director... more
Italian software goes north
Italian IB group from Rapallo, a provider of ship performance and operation control software, has opened a technical and commercial branch office in Leer, Lower Saxony (Germany). Under the Info Ship brand, it is due to develop and market its Info Ship software in Germany, as... more