Rail to transport 25,000 t of poultry a month 
LTG Cargo Polska is set to begin providing transport services to Cedrob, one of Poland's largest poultry meat producers. The Polish carrier will provide up to 20 trains a month for round-trip transport in Poland, mainly from Gdynia and other Polish cities. LTG Cargo Polska... more
Large investment by ADP
Abu Dhabi Ports (ADP), which operates ten hubs and terminals in the United Arab Emirates, has agreed to buy a controlling stake in Dubai-based Global Feeder Shipping (GFS), investing approximately USD 800 million to this end. This comes hot on the heels of ADP investing around... more
"Curiosity of the Day" 
Pharaoh Tutankhamun, who lived in the 14th century BCE and whose burial chamber was discovered on 4 November 1922, 100 years ago today, was born of an incestuous relationship between Pharaoh Akhenaten (Echnaton) with his sister. more
Antonov Airlines air-lifts communication satellite
Antonov Airlines cooperated with Bollore Logistics Space recently to transport a civil telecommunications satellite on one of its Antonov AN-124-100-150 aircraft. It flew the unit from Toulouse (France) to the ‘Nasa Shuttle Landing Facility’ in Titusville FL (USA), where it will... more
Chief accounting officer for XPO spin-off
Freight transportation services provider XPO Logistics Inc is appointing Jason Kerr as the chief accounting officer of RXO, a planned spin-off of XPO’s brokered transportation platform. Kerr has joined XPO as the chief accounting officer for the North American transportation... more
Now present in Sevilla
To better cover services in the provinces of Andalusia and Extremadura Geodis has opened a facility in Sevilla (Spain). The Sevilla office opened for business on 1 October. The new node in Geodis’s network connects to the forwarder’s presence in other Spanish cities, including... more
100 zero-emission BEVs for California
The US zero-emission electric vehicle (EV) service provider Zeem has executed a purchase order for 100 Nikola ‘Class 8 Tre’ battery-electric vehicles (BEVs), in order to ensure immediate availability of electric trucks for freight and logistics companies utilising Zeem’s... more
Intermodal terminal under new leadership
The Arken Intermodal Terminal at the Outer Port, one of the terminals at the Port of Gothenburg, Sweden, is getting a new operator. The recently signed lease agreement with the terminal company Gothenburg Roro Terminal will come into force on 11 December 2022. The Arken... more
The deal is on
It was a long struggle, but the outcome is clear. Atlas, the holding with Seaspan as a major global containership lessor in its portfolio, has agreed with Poseidon Acquisition on the sale of its shares. Poseidon is a consortium which was formed for this purpose by certain... more
Schmitz Cargobull picks Marnix Lannoije
The supervisory board of Schmitz Cargobull has appointed Marnix Lannoije as its new chief research and development officer (CTO), effective 1 October 2022. Lannoije succeeds Roland Klement who has retired. "Lannoije is an experienced industry expert and a good fit for... more