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Unitax expands executive team 
Unitax, a pharma logistics provider based in Germany, has expanded its management team: Steven Reinhold (CFO) and Grit Jedamzik (COO) joined managing director and CEO André Reich at the helm in March 2020. In his new position as CFO, Steven Reinhold, son of André Reich, the... more
Cargo flights soldier on
Under voluntary administration for three weeks now, Air Mauritius has resumed commercial cargo operations to and from some designated destinations. After two first flights to Paris last week, Mauritius' national carrier is considering twice-weekly commercial cargo flights on... more
US class I railway transports for Vulcan Materials
Union Pacific (UP) has delivered 95 gondola railcars loaded with aggregate limestone rock from Medina County, Texas, to the US port Freeport. It is the first rail shipment from Vulcan Materials Company to arrive at the port’s new rail-served Parcel 14 multi-modal industrial... more
Agility launches Global Response Aid
Agility has launched Global Response Aid (GRA), a Dubai (UAE)-based company established to procure certified diagnostic, testing and protective products and offer services such as a contact-tracing app and mobile testing used in the detection, treatment and prevention of... more
New users in the Netherlands
Logistics properties located within the perimeter of the port of Rotterdam remain in strong demand. In April there were no less than three transactions involving such facilities. Two investment companies enlarged their portfolios in the process, and Lidl, in turn, rented new... more
TRT service keeps cargo moving across Asia
Ceva Logistics has designed an innovative truck-rail-truck (TRT) service to keep freight moving across Asia during the Covid-19 crisis. The China-Vietnam road border crossing point between Pingxiang and Lang Son currently causes backlogs of two to four days. To avoid this,... more
Connecting East and Southern Africa with global markets
Network Airline Management not only carried flowers from Kenya into Europe and the UK for Mother's Day back in March and yesterday, 10 May 2020, but also made additional capacity available to help those who have lost loved ones during the coronavirus pandemic. The British... more
New truck service between Turkey and Croatia
Austrian forwarder Cargo Partner has introduced a new direct road groupage service between Istanbul in Turkey and Zagreb in Croatia with five weekly truck departures in both directions. In Turkey, the company’s offices in Istanbul, Mersin, Bursa, Izmir and Gaziantep in... more
Moderate impact on Finnlines Group's Q1/2020
Emanuele Grimaldi, President and CEO of the Finnlines Group has released the group’s results for Q1/ 2020. He stated that the group’s revenue of EUR 130.5 million for January–March 2020 remained close to Q1/2019 with EUR 137.6 million. During the first quarter, Finnlines... more