Austrian forwarder involved in rocket mission 
The international transport company Gebrüder Weiss (GW) is the official logistics partner for the Sub Orbital Express rocket mission to be carried out by the Swedish Space Corporation (SSC). GW is organising the transport of twelve scientific experiments from the SSC’s head... more
Third project close to Hamburg
Prologis is developing a new logistics property in Neu Wulmstorf near Hamburg: around 22,000 sqm of logistics, mezzanine and office space is being built on a site measuring approximately 35,400 sqm. Completion of the property is planned for Q3/2023. Prologis already owns two... more
Philippe Van Hove joins Shippeo
Shippeo, a global provider of real-time multimodal transportation visibility, has appointed Philippe van Hove as chief revenue officer. As a senior executive and SaaS veteran, van Hove will oversee the global expansion of Shippeo in Europe, USA and the APAC region. He brings... more
Easier transport between EU, Ukraine and Moldova
The European Transport and Tourism (TRAN) Committee has approved two separate agreements with Ukraine and Moldova to simplify cross-border goods transports. The new road transport agreements will replace existing bilateral transport agreements with EU countries and... more
Twelve sisters complete
It is the end of a long journey. The last of twelve hybrid ro-ro ships of the Grimaldi Green 5th Generation (GG5G) class was recently delivered from the Chinese Jinling shipyard in Nanjing. The “Eco Italia” flies the Italian flag, has a length of 238 m, a beam of 34 m, a... more
West African carrier introduces widebody capacity
Air Côte d’Ivoire, the national airline of the Republic of Côte d’Ivoire, has signed a firm order for two A330neo aircraft. The agreement was announced at Airbus headquarters in Toulouse (France), in the presence of Amadou Koné, minister of transport of Côte d’Ivoire,... more
Not even a year old and already expanding
The Swiss construction transport company BS Kaltmicrobelag was only founded in March 2022. Eight months later, it is already augmenting its fleet of three tankers and a crane truck with a C480 P8x4 EVO from Renault Trucks. The four-axle truck has a highly complex superstructure... more
Spain’s logistics real estate market booming
The Spanish logistics market had registered a record of investment and contracting by September this year, according to data from CBRE. The sector crossed the threshold of EUR 2 billion in investments (EUR 2.058 billion), contracting about two million sqm in the first nine... more
Rina now at Iwsa
The classification society Rina has officially become an associate member of the International Windship Association (Iwsa), which is a not-for-profit, member-driven organisation that facilitates and promotes wind propulsion for commercial shipping worldwide. With more than... more
Italian-Swiss cooperation to boost rail traffic
The FS Italiane Group and the Swiss Hupac Group recently signed an MoU aimed at creating more intermodal land and maritime services in Italy and to and from Europe. By jointly developing and managing terminals to improve the quality of intermodal transport and expand their... more