Daily train connections for Maersk 
GB Railfreight (GBRf) has signed a two-year deal with Danish company A.P. Moller-Maersk, one of the world's largest container shipping lines and vessel operators. The contract represents the first rail collaboration between the two companies in UK. The new service will... more
Bünning to join BÖB and VBW team
Magnus Bünning will be advisor for transport, budget and location politics in the joint head office of the Bundesverband Öffentlicher Binnenhäfen (BÖB) and the Verband für europäische Binnenschifffahrt und Wasserstrasse (VBW), from 1 June 2021. With the creation of this new... more
A dozen for Roehlig in India
Roehlig has added two more offices in India, in Hyderabad and Vizag, to its network to meet increasing demand from the pharmaceutical, healthcare, IT, consumer goods and chemical industries. Madhumita Tripathi, managing director, Roehlig India, explains: "A team of... more
Antwerp picks up import speed
Having started in January 2021, the new digital process for releasing containers at the Port of Antwerp, known as Certified Pick up (CPU), is entering its next phase. Instead of using PIN codes, containers will be picked up based on identity as from this summer. The process,... more
Prohibited porcupine quills intercepted
US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) discovered 100 porcupine quills in passenger baggage exactly one month ago, on 21 April 2021, at Washington airport (IAD). African porcupine quills are prohibited as potential vector for diseases, such as monkeypox virus. The USA last... more
New head of airfreight, Americas for DB Schenker
Global logistics provider DB Schenker has promoted Christoph Hemmann to head of air freight for the region Americas, effective 1 July 2021. For the past two years he has been DB Schenker's senior vice president global revenue management air freight. In his new role, he will... more
Two Northerners for the network
General cargo cooperation 24 Plus is growing. Its network has now been extended to include logistics service providers Colli Care and NHG Trans, which will operate in Finland and Norway. Until now, 24 Plus has reached both Finland and Norway via gateway services. Since 18... more
"Curiosity of the Day" 
The skin of an animal is called fur when it has more than 400 hairs per square centimetre. more
Admiral Container Lines ready for perishables
Admiral Container Lines is enhancing its equipment. The liner, which has been offering weekly and direct container shipping services in the Mediterranean and the Black Sea since 1998, is adding more than 150 new 40-foot, high-cube containers equipped with Carrier Transicold... more
Roadmap towards carbon neutrality
Decarbonising the road sector, which comprises more than 65 million heavy-duty vehicles and accounts for 2.5% of global CO₂ emissions, is an essential step towards achieving carbon neutrality by 2050. Now the road transport industry has launched the global Green Compact, a paper... more