Online pharmacy invests in new logistics hub 
Shop Apotheke Europe, an online pharmacy in continental Europe, is responding to the rise in order volume, which has been growing steadily for years, by moving into a new office and logistics centre in Sevenum near Venlo (Netherlands). This will speed up all processes involving... more
Container capacity in Koper to grow
The company Kolektor has won the contract for the extension of the container terminal in Koper. With its partners Grafist and Adriaing, it intends to start construction work in the summer. The extension of the Pier I involves the building of additional 98.5 m of quayside and... more
Röhlig Logistics: new MD for Germany
Röhlig Logistics has appointed Dirk Schneider as managing director of its German organisation. Schneider succeeds Christian Böttcher, who is leaving the company upon his personal request after nearly five years in this role. Schneider has held various positions at Röhlig... more
Three new trucks for Swiss vegetable producer
The family-run company Gebrüder Meier Gemüsekulturen in Dällikon near Zurich (Switzerland) has taken delivery of three new T 460 T4x2 Renault Trucks with cooling trailers. The three new 460 HP semi trailers are licenced for 36 t and will deliver vegetables across the entire... more
Gebrüder Weiss introduces ETA
Now that Gebrüder Weiss has introduced ETA (estimated time of delivery), its customers will receive even more precise information concerning delivery times. Depending on the traffic situation, the logistics services provider will continuously update its calculation of the... more
Antwerp is on the brink
Throughput in the first quarter of 2020 compensated the decline in April. The Port of Antwerp's total cargo traffic increased by 0.4% in the first four months of this year compared to the same period in 2019. Container flows show an annual growth of 6.1% in teu, yet consequences... more
Flying vaccines from Brussels to Mumbai
Qatar Airways Cargo transported 56 Skycell containers with vaccines from Global Biopharma on its scheduled maindeck and bellyhold cargo flights for Ceva Logistics. The 54 t shipment consisting of pneumococcal and varicella vaccines were flown from Brussels to Mumbai via Doha... more
Calais gains a secure truck parking lot
Forwarders can now reserve secure parking spaces at the C4T Calais service area in Calais, France, over the electronic platform of Bosch Service Solutions using a special app. The parking lot in Calais is enclosed by a fence, illuminated and monitored by cameras. In... more
Waiting on West Africans, welcoming East Africans
Initially scheduled for launch in less than one month (18 June 2020), Air Senegal's service to Geneva has been postponed to 26 October, one day after the also postponed service launch to London STN, scheduled for 26 June. The West African carrier which has already spread its... more
More than 350 t of Chinese mail for Europe
A China-Europe freight train from Yiwu, east China's Zhejiang province, arrived on Saturday (16.5.2020) in Vilnius, the capital of Lithuania, according to the state-own Chinese information office. The train carried 100 twenty-foot equivalent units (teus) loaded with 354 t of... more