Index dampens hopes of fast comeback 
According to the recent Agility Emerging Markets Logistics Index, 51.5% out of 1,200 industry professionals surveyed don’t expect a full economic and logistics recovery until 2022 to 2024. They see Latin America and Sub-Saharan Africa as the last regions to bounce back. It... mehr
AJW operative in Malpensa
In December 2020, the British AJW Group opened a new 11,000 sqm warehouse in Milan to mainly support Easyjet’s EU operations, having become recently a supply chain solution provider of the airline. The new facility located adjacent to Malpensa airport, Milan, holds inventory... mehr
Litchfield named managing director
British specialist technology provider Freight Software Group (FSG) has appointed Richard Litchfield as new managing director at its Forward Computers, which is a British independent supplier of freight forwarding software to the logistics sector and which was acquired by FSG in... mehr
Strasbourg stands up to pandemic
The inland Ports of Strasbourg in France, which will move to new headquarters in 2021, maintained their services throughout the pandemic in 2020. River traffic stood at 6.8 million t, down 9.5% from 2019. The shutdowns in 2020 hit the construction sector and the riverine... mehr
New GCC cross-border express road service
Logistic provider Agility and last-mile delivery and e-commerce specialist Shipa have launched a bonded, express road freight network to connect businesses and consumers in the GCC. The new service provides customers with less-than-truckload (LTL) and full truckload (FTL)... mehr
La Couverture covered by Unilode
Outsourced ULD management and repair services provider Unilode and MdG Group, a supplier of cold chain products and services for the food and pharmaceutical sectors, have signed a long-term agreement concerning La Couverture, a new product developed and manufactured by MdG... mehr
Menzies Aviation strengthens cargo team
Global aviation logistics specialist Menzies Aviation has announced five appointments, including three new hires and two internal appointments. Rory Fidler joins as vice president (VP) cargo technology, a newly created role, with special responsibility for driving forward... mehr
Resilience at Trois-Rivières
The Port of Trois-Rivières has reported its annual results. In 2020, the Canadian port handled a volume of goods of 3.3 million t, down from 2019, but in line with the forecasts. The 2.9 million t of dry bulk traffic represented 85% of the total tonnage, liquid bulk with... mehr
Making non-craneable semi-trailers craneable
VTG has cooperated with logistics provider VEGA International to develop a solution to make non-craneable semi-trailers craneable. The successful trial runs were carried out in Tilburg (Netherlands), where VTG customer and terminal operator GVT tested Vega’s vertical... mehr