Truck of the year in Northern Ireland 
The DAF XF has been named the truck of the year at Northern Ireland’s premier transport industry event, the Export & Freight Transport & Logistics Awards 2018. It is the fourth time the DAF XF has received a top accolade in Europe. The DAF XF for long and heavy haulage... plus
Way open for more cargo between Dallas and Paris
Airport operator Aéroports de Paris (ADP), which recently concluded a collaboration agreement with Hong Kong airport, the world’s largest airfreight hub, signed a declaration of intent with a similar focus with Dallas-Fort Worth airport at Tiaca’s Air Cargo Forum in Toronto this... plus
Practical trial of the eActros starts in Mannheim
Mercedes-Benz Trucks has delivered a fully-electric eActros to the Mannheim-based German firm TBS Transportbeton, for road tests. TBS is part of a group of 20 companies from various industries that are integrating the heavy-duty electric truck into their fleets.Each unit will... plus
Ongoing strong year
The Kuehne + Nagel Group increased its net turnover to CHF 15.3 billion in the first nine months of 2018, 13.6% more than in the same period of 2018. The company achieved strong volume growth, with a particularly dynamic development in the sea freight segment. In the first nine... plus
New hub to increase rail transport in Greece
The Piraeus Bank is set to finance the development of the Thriassio transit centre, near the Greek port of Piraeus, a facility designed to help increase freight transport by rail and promote Greece as a major freight hub in the trans-European transport network.The new Thriassio... plus
Europe–China traffic surging
Militzer & Münch is expanding its Europa–China solutions. The company will now also transport LCL consolidation boxes by rail on the Duisburg–Wuhan route. The option will set off from Duisburg every Saturday.On top of this the logistician also offers daily east and westbound... plus
HHLA, Metrans and Lithuanian railways to cooperate
The port of Hamburg’s HHLA, its railway subsidiary Metrans and the Lithuanian railways are set to cooperate closely to fortify cross-border operations to from the northern German port. The move is particularly relevant in the context of the ‘Rail Baltica’ and ‘East–west... plus
Tiaca partners with Europeans but stays in the USA
Messe München has signed signed a new memorandum of understanding with The International Air Cargo Association (Tiaca) that will see the two organisations work closely together on Tiaca’s Air Cargo Forum and Exhibition (ACF). Under the agreement Messe München, which has also... plus
Le fret est là 
L’association mondiale des aéroports Airports Council International (ACI) a publié fin septembre ses statistiques définitives pour 2017 et confirmé les chiffres annoncés au printemps (cf. ITJ 17-18/2018, page 13): les 20 plus grands aéroports fret du monde ont transbordé... plus
AF KLM Martinair Cargo returns vintage aircraft to the air
Air France KLM Martinair Cargo recently transported a vintage Morane-Saulnier H aircraft to the Indian Ocean island of Réunion, where the French aviation pioneer Roland Garros was born in 1888. On 23 September 1913 Garros, who died 100 years ago, was the first person to fly... plus