Port of Vienna’s 60th anniversary 
Hupac and Terminal Sped top partners. The port of Vienna’s good results encourage it to look to new projects for more space in its 2022 anniversary year. more
Honours for the pioneers of the pallet's triumph 
Oliver Richter (1920-2014), an Australian who, as trade manager of Brambles in the 1960s, discovered the potential of a closed rental pool for load carriers and successfully established today's Commonwealth Handling Equipment Pool (Chep) system, and George Raymond Sr.... more
New shuttle to link Gliwice with Pordenone
Swiss combined transport specialist Hupac is offering new opportunities for climate-friendly road-rail transport between Italy and Poland. Next Monday, 10 October 2022, a direct shuttle train will start in Gliwice (Poland), in the centre of one of Europe's most important... more
Agility invests in e-mobility supplier
Agility Ventures, the venture capital branch of Kuwait-headquartered Agility, has invested in Loop Global, a USA-based developer of hardware and software for electric-vehicle (EV) charging stations and networks. Loop, which operates in all 50 US states and more than 15... more
Sustainable fleet growing further
US class I railway Union Pacific is investing in electric vehicles: Over the next six months, 67 electric vehicles – 50 Ford Lightning pickups and 17 Ford Mustang Mach-Es – will be delivered to select field locations across the railroad’s US network. Growing its... more
Which is the cheapest sustainable marine fuel?
A study commissioned by SEA-LNG, a UK-based industry foundation, has found that liquified bio-methane (bio-LNG) offers real opportunities for maritime decarbonisation. Conducted at the Nanyang Technological University (NTU Singapore), the study points out that bio-LNG can be... more
Fast diversification
On 28 September AFG Aviation Ireland, a wholly owned subsidiary of Aircraft Finance Germany, completed the acquisition of a Boeing 757-200 freighter aircraft and a Rolls-Royce RB211 engine from a subsidiary of ASL Aviation Holdings for its customer Airline Geo Sky. Two days... more
Icao awards Ángela Marina Donato
The ICAO Council has posthumously conferred the Edward Warner Award, acknowledged as the highest honour in the world of civil aviation, on Ángela Marina Donato of Argentina. The award ceremony took place on the opening day of Icao’s 41st triennial Assembly and was led by the... more
Joining forces to augment intermodal services
MSC and FS Group have signed a MoU to create synergies in logistics. The agreement will initially aim at checking the opportunities and mutual interest to implement a commercial and operational partnership project to develop intermodal services. FS’s Polo Logistica... more
Methanol-Maersk is on
In March 2022, A.P. Moller - Maersk entered into strategic partnerships with six companies involved in methanol production. By the agreements with Cimc Enric, European Energy, Green Technology Bank, Orsted, Proman, and Wastefuel, the aim is to source at least 730,000 t/year... more