Southern European Flag carriers re-nationalised 
On 29 June 2020, Alitalia was officially relaunched with new management (Francesco Caio, an executive with a background in telecoms and banking and who led the postal service Poste Italiane to an IPO in 2015, as president, and Fabio Lazzerini, a former general manager of... more
DB Schenker expands ocean freight team
DB Schenker has appointed two executives to lead the sea freight business in the DE/CH cluster. Hans-Thorsten Lanfermann will manage the ocean export segment. He has been working for DB Schenker for almost 20 years. His most recent position was head of sea freight north of... more
Increasing safety and capacity on rail network
Canadian National Railways (CN) plans to invest over CAD 10 million (EUR 6.54 million) across the province in eastern Canada, Nova Scotia, in 2020. The investments will focus on the replacement of rail and ties, rebuilding road crossing surfaces as well as maintenance work on... more
Hellmann joins forces with Geodis
Hellmann Worldwide Logistics is changing its partner for its French trade and will work with Geodis as from 1 September 2020, thus ending the longstanding cooperation with Heppner and placing its groupage services between Germany and France on a sustainable footing with a new... more
CNCo improves data exchange ship-to-shore
The China Navigation Company (CNCo) is cooperating with Dualog, a Tromsø (Norway)-based maritime digital platform provider, in the use of Dualog Drive, a maritime-optimised file and folder replication service that is designed to simplify the collection and distribution of large... more
Transfesa renews its container fleet
Since the end of June, 122 new containers have been in full circulation in two intermodal corridors for cross-border traffic of Ford’s production components to UK and Germany. The first corridor leads from Ford Valencia to Ford’s automotive factory located in Dagenham,... more
US-Mexican commercial agreement
UPS and Estafeta Mexicana have signed a commercial agreement to provide Mexican businesses with international shipping services to help them reach more than 220 countries and territories. The collaboration includes more than 160 Estafeta service points. Exporters will be... more
New president for the Nautical Institute
Newly elected president of the Nautical Institute Jillian Carson-Jackson has vowed to help the Institute and wider maritime community meet three important challenges –diversity and inclusion, branch engagement and managing the impact of technology. Speaking at the Nautical... more
ESR acquires four logistics properties in China
ESR, Manulife and PGGM, a large Dutch pension fund service provider, report that a new core joint venture between ESR and Manulife, a Canadian financial services group, has completed the acquisition of four institutional-grade logistics properties from Redwood China Logistics... more
"Curiosity of the Day" 
The longest engagement on record lasted 67 years. The Mexicans Octavio Guillén and Adriana Martinez married in1969. Both were 82 years old. more