Jiménez to drive XPO's growth in Iberia 
XPO Logistics has appointed Luis Miguel Jiménez as senior business development director, supply chain logistics – Iberia. He will be responsible for driving the transport and logistics solutions provider's business growth in Spain and Portugal, including the management of... more
Alliance for e-truck leasing
Truck rental and consultancy company Fraikin Deutschland, winner of the “European transport award for sustainability 2020, and e-mobility specialist Quantron want to speed ahead with long-term lease services in 2021. The aim of their cooperation agreement is to introduce... more
Ipsen's integration completed
As of 1 February, Gebrüder Weiss adds Poland and Malaysia to the countries where the company operates under its own brand: the country organisations and the 126 employees taken over from Ipsen Logistics in late 2020 are now fully merged with the logistics provider’s corporate... more
Sealand: From Wilhelmshaven to Alexandria
Sealand, a Maersk company, has launched a new liner service. It connects Germany's only deep-water container port Wilhelmshaven with various destinations in the Eastern Mediterranean. From Wilhelmshaven, the vessels call at the ports of Limassol in Cyprus, Ashdod and Haifa... more
Further routes from China to Finland
Nurminen Logistics’ Chinese container train traffic volumes tripled during 2020. To meet the increased demand, the company will open three new train routes from China to Finland with a Suzhou, Ningbo and Jinan line. On 19 January 2021, the first train left Suzhou bound for... more
Quietly and sustainably on track
Metrans has fitted its entire 3,000-container wagon fleet with what are known as “whispering” (composite) brakes. This means that the carrier has already implemented the ban on noisy freight trains in Germany. Metrans wagons are mostly lightweight flat wagons and especially... more
Combitras joins Gruber Logistics
Gruber Logistics - repre has acquired provider Combitras, thus adding two new branches to its network in central Italy. Combitras is a historically grown company with over 30 years of experience in part loads and integrated logistics and one of the major players in the region of... more
Slight setback in ports worldwide
In December 2020, the flash estimate for its container throughput index published by the German research body Rheinisch-Westfälisches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung (RWI - Leibniz) and the Institute of Shipping Economics and Logistics (ISL) registered a light drop in world... more
155 PAX aircraft temporarily converted in 2020
Further to British aviation analyst Cirium, 155 aircraft had most if not all of their passenger seats removed last year in order to transport cargo in the cabin. Increased demand for PPE manufactured in Asia required fast distribution across the world. This coincided with... more
A future for young people?
Europa Worldwide Group, a specialist road, air & sea and warehouse operator, aims to support young people by developing its own career programme. The RAPID career development programme for school-leavers has been re-launched in 2021 with an extension that focuses on... more