Westbound transatlantic air cargo in January 
Despite high inflation and falling US retail sales, westbound air cargo volumes between Europe and North America rose 6% year-on-year in January but overall global air cargo demand continued to fall, down -8%, as an earlier Chinese New Year and economic headwinds subdued other... more
Hardis Group's clients in Poland
Hardis Group Polska has experienced strong growth since it was founded in 2021. The group specialises in IT and cloud services for supply chains. The turnover Hardis achieved in Poland in 2022 is 22% above the objective set in early 2021. The company intends to continue this... more
Seko Logistics picks Richard MacLaren
Seko Logistics, a specialist for global end-to-end logistics solutions, has appointed Richard MacLaren as its new senior vice president, global e-commerce. MacLaren will oversee the enhancement and execution of the overall strategy and structure of the company’s e-commerce... more
Road haulage: operators must have a choice
The International Road Union (IRU), the European Shippers’ Council and Fuels Europe are demanding a long-term solution for the decarbonisation of transport. In a joint letter sent to the EU executive vice president, the partners have called for the full and equal recognition... more
Zeus hires Cambridge sustainability expert
Zeus is to take on Christopher de Saxe, currently senior research associate at the Centre for Sustainable Road Freight, University of Cambridge, to further develop Zeus’s plans to provide true sustainable freight. De Saxe will be Zeus’s first head of sustainability... more
Aercap to lease Four Big Twins to Fly Meta
Aercap Holdings has signed lease agreements for four Boeing 777-300ERSF aircraft with Hong Kong-based global air cargo charter company Fly Meta. The aircraft are scheduled to be delivered in 2024 and 2025. The Boeing 777-300ERSF, also known as 'The Big Twin', is the first... more
Highly automated truck on public roads
Commercial vehicle manufacturer Iveco and autonomous driving specialist Fahren Plus are starting to test their jointly developed, highly automated truck on public roads in Germany. The trials will be extended to Austria, Italy and Switzerland in the coming months. The test... more
More traffic between the British Isles
Austria-based freight forwarding company Cargo-Partner is strengthening its intermodal freight services on the British Isles. With its enhanced road haulage network, it aims to support customers importing and exporting goods to and from UK and Ireland. The portfolio also... more
Dachser Turkey: an urgent shipment to Abidjan
At the end of last year, Dachser Turkey’s air & sea logistics team operated a charter flight from Turkey to West Africa. The task was to transport an urgent, high-volume shipment from Turkey to the Ivory Coast. Dachser’s team in Hamburg, which knew the customer and its... more
Paolo Bettazza to head customer service
After more than 29 eventful years at Renault Trucks, most recently as director of customer services, Rudolf Fricker was able to say goodbye to his partners and colleagues at the kick-off meeting of Renault Trucks (Schweiz). As of this year, Paolo Bettazza will assume... more