Boeing now rolling out ten B787s per month 
The US aerospace corporation Boeing has rolled out the first Boeing B787 Dreamliner built at the rate of ten airplanes per month. The airplane, a B787-8 and the 155th Dreamliner built, will be delivered to International Lease Finance Corp for operation by Aeromexico. It will be... more
Kombiverkehr augments services to Turkey and Greece
After the successful launch of its first Asia connection in October 2013, Kombiverkehr, an intermodal service provider based in Frankfurt (Germany), is commencing a combined rail/ferry service between Germany, Greece and Turkey on 4 February. A thrice weekly direct train service... more
Prepare for lengthy wait at Polish/Belarusian border
Belarus has stepped up its security checks on trucks that pass through its customs posts. The more stringent inspections are due to the forthcoming Winter Olympics in Sochi (Russia) and the ice hockey world championship in Minsk in May this year, according to Austria’s syndicate... more
New slot management to reduce waiting time
Lufthansa Cargo now relies on Euro-Log's dynamic time slot management system for the coordinated loading/unloading of customers' vehicles at Europe's largest transhipment point for airfreight in Frankfurt (Germany). At Frankfurt airport's distribution centre, the import and... more
Etihad doubling Dublin service as well
Only one week after a similar announcement by the Dubai-based airline Emirates, its UAE competitor Etihad Airways, with its hub in Abu Dhabi, has said that it will increase its Dublin (Ireland) service from ten flights per week to double daily from 15 July 2014. Etihad will... more
Transaero increases cargo business volume
Russia-based Transaero Airlines posted record operational results for 2013, including a 5.9% increase over 2012 of the transported cargo tonnage (69,736 t). This led to a 13.6% increase of the cargo performance (4.6 billion tkm). The carrier said the figures showed that it had... more
An auspicious new year for Terco 
Operations in a container terminal in Chavornay, in the canton of Vaud (Switzerland), can continue, as the company Terminal Combiné Chavornay’s recent extraordinary annual general meeting approved a new remediation plan for the hub. This ensures that the facility will remain an... more
Envirotainer opens station in Dusseldorf
As part of its continued network expansion, Envirotainer has opened a new service station in Dusseldorf (Germany) to ensure the quality and availability of its temperature-controlled air cargo containers for customers shipping pharmaceutical and healthcare products from the... more
VDT aims to work on western-built aircraft
Volga-Dnepr Technics GmbH (VDT), the Leipzig (Germany)-based maintenance company responsible for the outreach of the Russian Volga-Dnepr Group's maintenance operations in Europe, has expanded its current scope of activities on western-built aircraft. The renewed scope of its... more
Stability for sensitive goods
The 18th Swiss Logistics Award, presented by GS1 Switzerland, a national industry association, was won in 2013 by the young company SkyCell, for its development of a new generation of containers for sensitive goods in the pharmaceutical industry. more