Coface predicts slow pace in 2022 
The insurance group Compagnie Française d'Assurance Coface recently published its business barometer, analysing the risks and opportunities lying ahead in 2022. Although economic recovery will continue, "Omicron has highlighted the unpredictability of the pandemic and... more
All good things come in fours
It was the fourth offer of the Kuwaiti company Agility that finally led to the breakthrough. Among the biggest providers of fuelling, ground handling and maintenance services, operating in around 37 countries globally, London-listed John Menzies has now approved the takeover... more
Qatar Airways welcomes Envirotainer’s Releye RAP
Qatar Airways Cargo has approved Envirotainer’s latest innovation, the Releye RAP container. Officially launched on 9 February 2022, and able to accommodate five pallets, the Releye RAP is the largest and most technically advanced product in Envirotainer’s new generation... more
More services between Italy and the Baltic Sea
Intermodal operator Kombiverkehr recently introduced three more trains on its service between Verona (northern Italy) and the Skandinavienkai terminal in Lübeck-Travemünde (Germany). While the three existing round trips are open to all interested parties, the new connections... more
Garbe picks Jan Philipp Daun
Garbe Industrial Real Estate has appointed Jan Philipp Daun as managing director. In his new role as chief investment officer (CIO), he will join Jan Dietrich Hempel and Christopher Garbe at the company’s top executive level. Daun has been with Garbe for more than ten years,... more
Logistics offers job opportunities
Working closely with the vocational training centre Berufsbildungswerk Mosbach-Heidelberg of the Johannes-Diakonie, DSV Solutions in Vaihingen offers young people with support needs professional training in logistics. At DSV Solutions, warehouse specialists check the goods... more
Cargo-partner pushing Slovenian location
Less than a year and a half after the new hub went into operation, Cargo-partner is expanding its iLogistics centre in Ljubljana from the current 25,000 sqm to a total of 39,100 sqm of warehouse space. The warehouse was officially opened in September 2019, and the expansion... more
Eight for decarbonisation in Antwerp
Halving CO2 emissions by 2030: the initiative launched by a consortium comprising Air Liquide, BASF, Borealis, Exxon Mobil, Ineos 7, Total Energies, Fluxys and the Port of Antwerp aims to support the industry's efforts by establishing a joint CO2 infrastructure. The project... more
Stopgap or new approach? 
Retailers in the USA charter transport space most frequently. more
Italy: another 4,000 trucks to shift to rail
After successful test runs, Transport operator Metrocargo Italia has launched an inbound and outbound intermodal service for glass packaging producer Verallia between Piedmont, Lombardy and Veneto. Metrocargo’s rail-road link between Borgo San Dalmazzo (Cuneo) and Valdaro... more