Chartersync increases platform capabilities 
Chartersync has established its active airline operator-base by adding over 100 cargo aircraft live onto its platform within its first six months of trading. Offering a bespoke charter booking platform connecting freight forwarders directly with airlines, the British company can... more
Bertschi Group posts gains in difficult market environment
Thanks to the expansion of its worldwide activities, the Bertschi Group continued its growth in financial year 2019. In the reporting year, Bertschi saw group revenues rise by 1.3% to CHF 985 million. The workforce grew by 3% to 3100. Adjusted for negative currency effects,... more
Companies gain funding for quiet trains
Middle-sized companies often do not have access to funding programmes to refurbish their fleets with low-noise brake blocks. The European rail service offered by the Verband Hamburger Güterwagenhalter in Germany (Hamburg’s association of freight wagon owners, VPI) has now acted... more
A new platform for investors in maritime
Will the tide of investments in the maritime world turn? The Schulte Group, a major German ship owner and ship manager, and DEVK, a German insurance group, are launching the Navigo Shipholding AG (Navigo), a maritime asset investment platform for institutional investors.... more
Network partner for TT Club in Qingdao
International freight and logistics insurer TT Club has appointed a new network partner, tasked with providing support for those companies that the Club insures around the world, in Qingdao, China. The seventeenth such facility that TT has set up worldwide, this branch... more
Havi opens new facility near Hanover
Food logistics services provider Havi and project developer Verdion have inaugurated a logistics centre in Wunstorf near Hanover (Germany). Up to 200 employees will be working there in the long run. "The 15,000 sqm distribution centre is not only an new location for Havi... more
“Curiosity of the Day” 
More than 52% of the world's population is under 30 years old and people in their 60s and older make up 12.3% of the global population. more
Biggest investment in widebody equipment
Air Greenland has entered into a large agreement with aircraft manufacturer Airbus for the delivery of a new A330-800neo (list price: USD 260 million), which is expected to be in route from 2021. The replacement of the company's only jet aircraft, an A330-200, is expected to fly... more
An eye on bank notes
Explosives, armed robberies, burning vehicles – several valuables transports fell prey to criminal gangs in western Switzerland recently. A ban on night-time transport operations, which prevents the deployment of heavy armoured delivery units, is one of the reasons underlying... more
Saving 53 t of CO2 emissions at one go
Gebrüder Weiss (GW) Salzburg is now operating two gas-powered trucks on the European network. The vehicles run daily between Löhne in the German federal state of North Rhine –Westphalia and the city of Mozart in Austria. The trucks are powered by LNG (liquefied natural gas).... more