Bringing Japan and the USA together 
The Californian urban drone logistics platform Matternet is expanding operations to Asia through a new business partnership with Japan Airlines (JAL). The partnership is to deploy the Matternet M2 drone system in Tokyo metropolitan government's new "drone logistics... more
Eastern and Globalx - but all USA
Global Crossing Airlines ("Globalx") has signed a letter of intent with two affiliates of Singapore-based technology, defence, and engineering group ST Engineering to convert five A321 passenger aircraft into freighters. Under the deal with their subsidiary ST... more
Daily trains from China to Hamburg
UTLC ERA, a subsidiary of Russian Railways, and Belintertrans Germany, are launching a joint end-to-end regular multimodal service from Altynkol, on the border with China, to Kaliningrad (Russia) and Hamburg (Germany). The new service will provide competitive and reliable... more
Guaranteeing long term Asia–Europe capacities
Geodis has increased its investment in its own network to more than EUR 70 million, and has confirmed a two-way schedule of flights from Shanghai PVG to Amsterdam and back. This will run through to early 2021 and guarantee its customers regular and reliable services.The global... more
New times ahead, says Drewry
This is neither the perfect storm, nor the sought-for boom, says London-based Drewry, pointing out that eastbound spot container freight rates have not just risen since the beginning of the Covid-19 outbreak, but are now even starting to exceed previous historical highs by up to... more
Hungarians investing in e-hybrid locomotive
The first locomotive developed for Rail Cargo Hungaria (RCH) rolled off the production line of the Chinese company CRRC Zhuzhou Locomotive recently. According to a contract signed in 2019, CRRC will develop electro-hybrid shunters and high-power mainline locomotives with zero... more
ESR leases Tokyo building to Nakano Shokai
ESR has leased out an 80,000 sqm building in the ESR Toda distribution centre (Japan) to the logistics services company Nakano Shokai. The deal marks the first collaboration between ESR and Nakano Shokai.The tenant will move early in October, on the heels of this month’s... more
Breaking records on Indian routes
IAG Cargo recently flew more than 50 t of cargo on a single Boeing B777-300ER flight from Mumbai to London – a company record from India. The product mix included perishables, pharmaceuticals and courier consignments, with a large amount of engineering goods, destined for Europe... more
What about the maritime industry in 2050?
DNV GL Maritime has published the fourth edition of its ‘Maritime Forecast to 2050’. It is based on 30 scenarios that project future fleet composition, energy use, fuel mix, and CO2 emissions through to the year 2050.16 different fuel types and ten fuel technology systems are... more
Train service Scandinavia - China launched
Nurminen Logistics is the first in Europe to transport temperature-controlled foods by freight train from Scandinavia to China. "Earlier, it wasn't possible to transport temperature-controlled products by railway. But now, our new reefer containers which are suitable for... more