Upgrade of Serbian railways goes ahead 
Russian Railways (RZD) and Serbia have signed an agreement on the joint implementation of a project to modernise the Belgrade – Vrbnica (Slovakia) – border railway line with Montenegro (Bar). The contract includes the construction and electrification of a 15-km second track... more
Liege airport invites bright heads
Powered by the investment fund LeanSquare and Liege Airport (Belgium), the WeCargo event will soon bring together start-ups, air cargo industrialists and investors from 7 to 14 November, 2019. Through the "acceleration programme", set to take place during the whole... more
Gefco opts for augmented reality
Gefco has joined forces with Artishock to develop the augmented-reality application “Gefco Enterprise AR”. The new programme is deployed by Gefco Freight Forwarding to improve quality checks and increase productivity in packaging procedures within the cold chain. The company... more
Dutch forwarder invests in digitalisation
A seamless flow of information is the basis for the smooth operation of a logistics company. This aim can hardly be achieved without modern IT systems. Therefore, Raben Group has equipped all drivers in eleven countries with an IT solution provided by Panasonic. The robust... more
More LCL railfreight options on the new Silk Road
Cargo-Partner currently operates 40 FCL railfreight services und 15 LCL railfreight services from China (Shenzhen, Shanghai, Tianjin) to Poland (Warsaw) per week. Now, the company has introduced additional direct LCL railfreight options from China to important transshipment... more
Maersk pleased with 2019's results
The Copenhagen (Denmark)-based Based A.P. Møller - Mærsk A/S (APMM) has upgraded its expectations for the 2019 result. The optimism derives from the financials of Q3 and the updated outlook for freight rates, volumes and bunker fuel prices for the rest of the year. APMM’s... more
Turkish Cargo now ISO 10002 certified
Turkish Cargo has obtained the "customer satisfaction management certificate" (ISO 10002) and developed the cargo customers feedback management policy accordingly. Under these guidelines, various improvements have been performed on the reporting methods, related... more
KN is on course - only air freight falls behind
Kuehne + Nagel defied the economic slowdown and improved its results in most of its sectors of activity in the first nine months of 2019. Compared to the same period in 2018, the group’s net sales rose by 3.1% to CHF 15.8 billion, gross profit increased by 4.4% to CHF 6 billion,... more
Strategic cooperation as Brexit beckons
UK-headquartered Chapman Freeborn Airchartering is now the exclusive partner for all of Airbridge International Agencies' (AIA) aircraft charter requirements to and from the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland. Working closely with GSA's Dublin-based team, the agreement has... more
Chep, Kimberly-Clark and Smart Way cooperate
Trucks that carry Kimberly-Clark’s hygiene products and toiletries from Czechia to Great Britain are now loaded with re-usable Chep pallets to take them back to Czechia. On average, Kimberly-Clark and Chep share three trucks per day. As an operative link between the two... more