"Evaporated" cognac, rerouted honeybees 
In the US District Court in Pasadena, American Airlines is being sued by Bacardi USA over the mysterious disappearance of six of 24 pallets containing 1,680 cases of cognac flown on 20 September 2021 from Paris to Los Angeles. According to Bacardi, the missing alcohol was worth... more
Christian Biesecke joins Vacad board
Christian Biesecke has been elected as treasurer and new member of the board of Vacad, the German association of air cargo handlers. The division manager for cargo and logistics at Port Ground replaces Stefanie Jelinek. Biesecke’s appointment expands the board's expertise in... more
"Curiosity of the Day" 
The vampire squid (Vampyroteuthis infernalis) has proportionally the largest eyes of all squids: they are 2 cm wide and the animal's body is only about 15 cm long. more
Food giant switches to renewable fuels
Nestlé’s products will now be delivered around UK and Ireland by trucks which emit up to 95% less carbon. This significant reduction in emissions comes after the company switched 75% of its own fleet of trucks from diesel to bio-LNG. Over the next two years, the remaining... more
More units on Venice-Bari-Patras service
Naples-headquartered Grimaldi Group has added another vessel to its Venice-Bari-Patras service. The “Eurocargo Cagliari” will join the “Eurocargo Alexandria” and “Eurocargo Genova” on the ro-ro line from 4 May 2022. The “Eurocargo Cagliari” has a transport capacity of 3,850... more
New ranking of warehouse developers in Europe
In a ranking recently published by "Property EU”, which was founded in 2006, the industry evaluates Europe’s largest developers of logistics real estate according to the amount of their respective constructed space volume from 2019 to 2021. Projects currently under... more
More agricultural deliveries from Ukraine
From March to April 2022, the Austrian Rail Cargo Group (RCG) organised grain trains from Ukraine to Germany every second day, transporting a total of 60,000 t of grain during this period. Currently, RCG is running grain trains three times a week from Cierna (Slovakia) to Brake... more
South India is on
There is news beyond the war in Ukraine, the Chinese shutdowns and rising fuel prices. The St Gallen-based Swiss Inter Rail Group has established its first office in Chennai (India), to be led by branch manager Vijayan Munusamy. Inter Rail India has ben active in India since... more
Russians let Let go
The company Aircraft Industries - LET Kunovice, Czechia’s largest manufacturer of civilian transport aircraft, is returning to Czech ownership after 14 years. On 21 April, the Russian owner Ural Mining and Metallurgical Company and the Omnipol Group agreed to sell 100% of... more