Results from the East and West Coast 
As the shopping season enters in full motion, US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officers at the international mail facility (IMF) of Los Angeles airport have intensified "Operation Mega Flex", a CBP-led ongoing nationwide aggressive crackdown in seizing illicit... more
Lineas and EWS double fumigation capacity
EWS, a specialist for pest control, and railfreight operator Lineas will double the fumigation capacity at the main hub in Antwerp, Belgium, to meet the increased demand for lumber transport from Europe to China. Every week more than 3,000 containers of wood pass through the... more
Nana Lin as Geodis' managing director
Lin Shih Ying (Nana Lin) has been appointed new managing director in the Geodis' Asian Pacific (APAC) region, more specifically in Taiwan. She joins the company with over ten years of experience in international supply chain management, having worked for major logistics... more
ONE improves results significantly
The wave of good news from carriers continues. Japan’s Ocean Network Express (ONE) reported a profit leap of 326% for the second quarter of its fiscal year 2020, which runs from April 1 to March 31. The Singapore-based container carrier said its Q2 profit came to USD 515... more
To Russia with love
Austrian logistics group Gebrüder Weiss (GW) launches a new weekly scheduled service between Vienna and Moscow, effective immediately. It is the company's second regular direct connection to the Russian capital in order to expand its groupage freight services to Russia. The... more
Siberian barley delivered to China by rail and ship
Fesco Transportation Group has completed the first intermodal transportation of containers with barley from Omsk (Siberia) to China. The scheme included the transportation of 64 twenty-foot containers with liner bags (special bags in which the cargo was placed) by a Fesco... more
Russian Railways to launch CRM system
Russian Railways (RZD) is completing work on creating a customer relationship management (CRM) system. The company has already begun trial operations and will launch the system by the end of 2020. According to deputy managing director Alexey Shilo, the key element of this... more
Three Japanese carriers for Russian LNG
The Japanese shipping company MOL inked charter agreements for three icebreaking LNG carriers with LLC Arctic LNG 2, in which the Russian company Pao Novatek holds the largest share, through a wholly owned MOL subsidiary on 28 October. The three vessels will be built by... more
Safe transport along Silk Road
Bolloré Logistics Germany recently handled the transport of sensitive goods from Xiamen in China to Bocholt in Germany on behalf of its long-standing customer Gigaset. The highly sensitive IT components were packed in 66 pallets with a total weight of 10,915 kg. Their... more
Maritime goes smart
The maritime industry in general is changing fundamentally as vessels transform into sophisticated sensor hubs, generating data and connecting through satellites in an expanding interconnected web. To enable the uptake of these systems and unlock the associated efficiencies,... more