New position for Michael Gehrken 
The members of the Swiss association of driving instructors (SFV) have elected Michael Gehrken as their new president. He succeeds Pierre-André Tombez, who took over the mandate on an interim basis after the resignation of the former president in November last year. Gehrken has... more
Acito Logistics wins new customer
Acito Logistics has won another customer from the automotive sector. The logistics company from Weil am Rhein (Germany), located close to the German-Swiss frontier, will be responsible for the customer’s warehouse logistics and the supply of materials for production logistics by... more
Three die on Atlas Air/Amazon B767 freighter crash
Atlas Air Worldwide has confirmed that the three people on board Atlas Air flight 3591 did not survive the accident on 23 February 2019, just before landing at George Bush intercontinental airport in Houston, Texas (USA). The B767 flight from Miami to Houston was a cargo... more
New port strategy of Djibouti continues
On 22 February 2018 the State of Djibouti prematurely terminated the Doraleh container terminal concession, which was granted in 2006 to Doraleh Container Terminal (DCT), a company mainly managed by DP World. While the legal proceedings around the withdrawal of the... more
New mega trailers to transport car components
In Sweden, Dachser is organising the transport of replacement parts for Volvo Cars from Torslanda, a suburb of Gothenburg, to Dachser’s subsidiary in Gothenburg and from there to Volvo Cars’ warehouses in Germany. Dachser has invested in two new mega trailers and developed... more
Neel Jones Shah joins Tiaca board of directors
Neel Jones Shah, senior vice president and global head of airfreight at Flexport, has been appointed to the Tiaca board of directors. Shah, who previously served on the Tiaca board from 2011 to 2012, has almost 20 years of experience in the aviation and transport industry. ... more
Symbia acquires iD Commerce + Logistics
Symbia Logistics, a Colorado-based warehousing, logistics and e-commerce fulfilment company has recently acquired Chicago-based iD Commerce + Logistics (IDC), a leader in third-party logistics and e-commerce fulfilment. “This is a strategic acquisition not only to broaden... more
Saudia Cargo opens sales office in Dubai
Saudi Airlines’ cargo company has inaugurated a brand-new cargo sales office in the free zone of Dubai international airport (DXW). It has been operational since 27 January 2019. The opening of the new sales office is part of the company’s strategy to develop its... more
Merger of Hapag-Lloyd with UASC bears fruit
The Hamburg-based carrier Hapag-Lloyd achieved a more satisfactory result in 2018 than in previous years. On the basis of preliminary and unaudited figures, its Ebitda surged by almost 8% to EUR 1.14 billion (2017: EUR 1.05 billion). Ebit rose by 7.2% to EUR 443 million (2017:... more
New weekly train runs from China to Belarus
RZD Logistics organised the rail transport of Geely knock-down kits from China to the JV car manufacturer BelGee’s assembly factory in Belarus in about 14 days. The first four container trains set off in accordance with a schedule specially developed for this project,... more