Paycargo Capital offers credit facility 
Paycargo Capital, a sister company of the online payment platform Paycargo, is working with businesses in the fresh produce supply chain to provide fast and flexible financing for the movement of perishable cargo. Customers of Paycargo in North America can apply for credit of... more
Two Air Transat A330-200 to fly for GTA Air Cargo
Montreal (Canada)-based leisure carrier Air Transat will convert two of its A330-200s into makeshift freighters for use on behalf of GTA Air Cargo, the newest company of the GTA Group. Mario D'Urso, the chairman of the Canadian logistics firm's parent, GTA dnata, said via... more
New head of German and Austrian markets
Henning Dieter will assume his role as the head of Swissport Cargo Services Germany & Austria on 1 September 2020. He succeeds Dirk Schmitt, who left the company in December 2019 after having headed Swissport Cargo’s operations in Germany and Austria since February 2015.... more
Elvis improves protection for truck drivers
Elvis, the network of European truck forwarders and carriers, has integrated several offers into its programme that permit freight forwarders to improve their support for their drivers in the corona crisis. Thanks to a cooperation with the smart payment and booking platform... more
Port Climate's Eleven forge ahead
The World Ports Climate Action Programme (Wpcap) has taken five more important steps. The CEOs of the eleven aligned ports have adopted the following five agreements: First, more efficiency, speed optimisation and enhanced planning on routing and turn-around time in ports... more
Temperature control is essential
Logistics service provider trans-o-flex has measured the temperature in non-temperature-controlled delivery vehicles throughout Germany – result: no shipment is safe without temperature control. "Regardless of the time of day and whether the shipment is transported in... more
"Curiosity of the Day" 
Toilet paper was invented in China in the fourteenth century but was reserved for imperial use only. more
Cutting carbon emissions by 6,500 t per annum
Moelven, Grenland Rail and Green Cargo have renewed their agreement to continue their sustainable freight transport services from Norway to Sweden. The new three-year agreement starts this December. Shipments run seven days a week, carrying wood chips and pulpwood on... more
Maersk sticks to its optimism
A.P. Moeller-Maersk A/S (APMM), the world's largest container shipping group, said it expects better market demand than previously forecast in the current three-month period. The quarterly profit should therefore be "slightly above" the USD 1.5 billion mark achieved... more
New horizons for Ethiopian Airlines
Ethiopian Airlines has converted 22 passenger aircraft cargo aircraft in a short period of time. Fitsum Ebadi, MD cargo & logistics services: "This achievement was only possible by our strong MRO team which we built through time. We can now respond to the ever... more