Container train covers 10,294 km in 18 days 
The Russian company Fesco and China-based Zhengzhou International Hub (ZIH) are launching a regular container train from Hamburg (Germany) to Zhengzhou (China) via the Sino-Russian border crossing Grodekovo/Suifenhe. The transit time for the 10,294km long route is 18 days.... plus
Central Asia after Central America
Qatar Airways Cargo has commenced freighter operations to Almaty, its second new destination in 2019. The carrier now offers more than 200 t of capacity each week to the largest metropolis in Kazakhstan. Arriving directly from Doha, the twice-weekly B777Fs return to their hub... plus
Booster le rail 
D’ici 2035, la Suisse va investir 11,9 milliards de CHF dans les infrastructures ferroviaires. 205 M. de CHF seront consacrés au trafic marchandises. Il deviendra plus rapide et aura davantage de capacité sur l’axe nord-sud. plus
New Effi Shunter 600 for Čepro
Czechia-based Cepro has upgraded its extensive rolling stock fleet with the addition a new Effi Shunter 600 locomotive made by CZ Loko. The unit is fitted with a more powerful 709 kW Caterpillar C27 diesel engine, and its main advantages are, inter alia, reduced fuel... plus
Subic Port sets milestone in 2018
SBITC, operator of the new container terminals 1 and 2 at Subic Bay Freeport (Philippines), reached a milestone at the end of 2018 when the 200,000th teu was lifted. The ICTSI subsidiary has a capacity of 600,000 teu per annum. The 200'000 teu threshold was reached when a... plus
Aercaribe revives Ecuadorian airport
Hard times came to an end for Latacunga Airport (LTX) when a first charter flight, operated by the Colombian airline Aercaribe Cargo, landed there last week. The facility, which has the second longest runway in Ecuador, had had no commercial flight operations since 2017.... plus
Promotion on two fronts at Kukla
Robert Kukla, a Munich-based forwarding company, has granted Axel Bohnensteffen and Daniel Comi full power of attorney. The trained forwarder merchant and business economist Bohnensteffen, who has been with Kukla since summer 2016, manages the company’s multimodal transport... plus
New package delivery facility in Houston
The new UPS Willowbrook package delivery facility in northwest Houston has created 575 new full and part-time jobs. Now operating at full capacity, the platform significantly increases UPS’s delivery fleet serving Houston TX, the USA's fourth most populated city. Home to the... plus
Railrunner Europe slides into the doldrums
Railrunner Europe, a subsidiary of the US-based company Railrunner, is in financial difficulties. The bankruptcy court of Hamburg has already appointed a preliminary insolvency administrator. The intermodal operator said its financial melt-down was caused by... plus
2018 good for port of Lubeck
Lübecker Hafen-Gesellschaft (LHG), operator of the port of Lubeck (Germany), was able to boost its 2018 throughput by 1.2% to around 22.1 million t. The container handling sector noted an almost 4% increase. Ro-ro traffic (about 730,000 units) made the biggest contribution... plus