New TEX service to start next month 
Hamburg-based carrier Hapag-Lloyd will launch the new regular service Turkey East Coast Express (TEX) in mid May 2022. The weekly service will call the three Turkish ports of Izmit, Aliaga and Mersin and connect them eastbound with the US East Coast ports of New York,... more
Geodis strengthens its executive team in Germany 
Geodis has appointed Johann Peter Reimer as its new air freight director and Björn Srocke as its new sales director in Germany. Reimer has 20 years of experience in logistics, both at home and abroad. After training as a forwarding merchant and business economist, he has... more
Natilus to build 3.8 t aircraft in San Diego
Natilus, a US company which produces the world’s first purposefully-designed and manufactured autonomous aircraft for air freight transport, is building new engineering and manufacturing facilities for its family of aircraft on San Diego’s Brown Field. “As the design of the... more
Coal transports reach a record high
Indian Railways (IR) has intensified its coal transports. During the year 2021-22, the state-owned railway augmented its coal shipments by a record 111 million t, thus loading a total of 653 million t of coal, 20.4 % more than the year before. Furthermore, during the period... more
World trade in peril, says WTO
In mid- April, the WTO published its analysis on the implications of the war in Ukraine for global trade and development. The WTO secretariat's note, ‘The Crisis in Ukraine: Implications of the war for global trade and development’, anticipates that the crisis could lower global... more
"Curiosity of the Day"
95% of the happiness hormone serotonin is found in the gastrointestinal tract. more
TXL augments intermodal transport services
TX Logistik (TXL) has introduced two round trips per week for the multimodal transport provider Samskip Multimodal in its train network between Duisburg in Germany and Katrineholm in Sweden. The train is around 700 m long, can carry up to 42 load units and transport swap bodies,... more
Elbe Flugzeugwerke picks Jordi Boto
Jordi Boto has been appointed CEO of Elbe Flugzeugwerke (EFW). He succeeds Andreas Sperl, who left the company after more than 15 years of growth. Boto’s previous position was COO, where he had been responsible for driving the ramp-up of the conversion from passenger to cargo... more
DP World moving up steadily
DP World saw its throughput rising in Q1/2022. The operator handled a total of 19.3 million teu worldwide, with gross container volumes increasing by 1.7% year-on-year on a reported basis and up 1.9% on a like-for-like basis. Notably the terminals in the ports of Qingdao... more