Japanese carrier joins Pharma.Aero 
Four years after becoming the first Japanese airline to be Iata CEIV Pharma certified, ANA Cargo is now the first Japanese airline to join Pharma.Aero, a non-profit organisation that works to improve end-to-end air transportation for pharmaceuticals and other critical health... mehr
Rail-enabled vessels with green finance
It is a new sustainable finance instrument for the shipping industry. In New Zealand, HFW is advising Kiwi Rail on a secured NZD 350 million (USD 244 million) pre- and post-delivery loan facility for its purchase of two newbuilding Interislander rail-enabled ferries. The... mehr
Harald Jony CEO of cargoe Austria
On 1 October 2021, Harald Jony became sole manager of cargoe, a specialist for added value and large-scale logistics based in Austria. Jony succeeds Jan Grubert and Reiner Holzmann, who are taking on other responsibilities. Since 2003, Jony’s professional career has taken... mehr
Port Sagunto's rail access progresses
Spanish infrastructure manager Adif has contracted Canteras La Ponderosa to transport 16,000 t of ballast for the new construction of the rail access to the port of Sagunto (Valencia, Spain). The contract includes stockpiling at the quarry, loading and delivery to the stockpile... mehr
Swiss Post's new ID(eas)
As of 1 October 2021, Swiss Post has acquired Swiss Sign Group and around two-thirds of the shares in health care logistics provider Steriplus. Steriplus specialises in health care consumables and the preparation of medical instruments for operations. Steriplus was founded... mehr
"Curiosity of the Day" 
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PtL world premiere in northern Germany
In order to reduce air traffic’s carbon footprint, Atmosfair, a non-profit climate protection organisation based in Bonn, has inaugurated the world's first commercial-scale power-to-liquid (PtL) plant in Werlte/Emsland. To produce the fuel, CO2 from a biogas plant is used,... mehr
Eklatanter Fahrer-Mangel
Dem Lkw-Fahrermangel setzen die Briten u.a. verkürzte Testverfahren entgegen. Dennoch führen Engpässe nicht nur zu leeren Regalen und Tankstellen, sondern auch zu Konsolidierungen der Logistikbranche.Die Störung globaler Lieferketten sowie der europaweite Mangel an Lkw-Fahrern... mehr
Intermodal network grows in the east
European Cargo Logistics (ECL) is expanding its "One-Stop-Shop" network. The freight forwarding subsidiary of Lübecker Hafen-Gesellschaft (LHG) has added Riga (Latvia) as a destination to its portfolio. In cooperation with Latvian logistics service provider LDZ,... mehr
30 years of joint humanitarian missions
This year, two of best known names in the air cargo charter world are marking 30 years of collaboration in humanitarian missions. To celebrate, Konstantin Vekshin of Volga-Dnepr Group and Justin Lancaster and Dan Morgan-Evans of Air Charter Service (ACS) recently met on board an... mehr