London P&I Club joins seafarers’ welfare association 
The London P&I Club has become a member of the International Seafarers’ Welfare and Assistance Network (Iswan), a network of international organisations committed to improving the welfare of seafarers.The London Club can now become more active in helping to improve the lives... more
InstaFreight offers second digital service
Transport management services are the second offering of the Berlin-based, digital freight forwarder InstaFreight. The company already provides forwarding services. Having successfully tested the pilot project with several large-scale enterprises over the past twelve months,... more
Lineas and Tabaknati build new hub
Belgium railfreight operator Lineas and logistics company Tabaknatie will set up collection points for containers outside of Antwerp (Belgium) to spread the number of trucks during the Oosterweel works on the Antwerp ring road. The initiative comes after Lantis and the Port... more
New multimodal access to the port of Barcelona
In a joint effort between the authorities and private companies, a protocol has been inked concerning the new southern road and rail accesses to the port of Barcelona. The ministry of public works, the Generalitat de Catalunya; Adif, the Spanish corporation of rail... more
Because Manhattan Associates is worth it
The French global beauty company, L’Oréal, which was founded 110 years ago, has chosen to implement Manhattan Active Warehouse Management, a software as a service (SaaS)-based and cloud-native solution. The first implementation is due to be launched by mid-2021, with... more
BDI flying high
The Baltic Dry Index (BDI), the main index of the international dry cargo freight market, has maintained its upward trend for five consecutive sessions and recently surpassed the 2,000 point barrier, reaching 2,097 on 7 October. This is the highest mark since September last... more
Logwin takes business with China to the streets
11,000 km through China, Kazakhstan, Russia, Belarus and Poland to Germany. The 235 boxes of bicycle parts from a Chinese plant in Dongguan, which Logwin, based in Luxembourg, transported for the first time by truck to Koblenz in Germany instead of by rail or sea freight, were... more
DF Industrial Partners grows
DFI, a project developer of commercial and logistics property based in Germany, is founding two new offices in Stuttgart and Hamburg and therefore also strengthening its sales team. In order to make local exchange easier with the municipalities and the partners, DFI is now... more
An e-vehicle for city logistics
In the old town of Freiburg, Germany, logistics service provider Dachser has designated an emission-free delivery area of roughly 1.5 sqkm. Effective immediately, B2B and B2C customers in the old town will receive all their groupage shipments via a 7.5 t all-electric Fuso... more
90 years ago today: the Graf at Basel’s first airport
On 12 October 1930 LZ 127, the most successful airship in the history of aviation, which transported more than 100 t of cargo on 1.7 million km between 1928 and 1937, landed at Basel's Sternenfeld airport, which had been inaugurated exactly one year and one month earlier, on 12... more