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Aug 3, 2021 at 6:46 PM
For the 30th anniversary of the Rostock Hanse Sail, more than a hundred tall ships are registered. The German-Danish ferry company Scandlines adds a special touch […]
Aug 2, 2021 at 5:37 PM
The shipping company Hapag-Lloyd is further expanding its presence in Africa. Today, the company opens a new office in West Africa’s Senegal, located in the capital […]
Jul 30, 2021 at 7:47 PM
The established IATA freight forwarder Quick Cargo Service has used the Corona period to strategically reposition itself and establish an eight-member director team. Starting August 1, […]
Jul 30, 2021 at 5:57 PM
Hapag-Lloyd’s half-year results for 2021 have significantly improved compared to the previous year. EBITDA amounts to approximately 3.5 billion euros compared to 1.2 billion euros in […]
Jul 28, 2021 at 9:03 PM
The COVID-19 related closure of the southern Chinese trading port of Yantian in May has serious implications for global supply chains and goods flows. The disruptions […]
Jul 27, 2021 at 6:31 PM
After the successful testing of autonomous trucks at the Hamburg port, MAN is conducting another automation project in Ulm. There, MAN is also testing the use […]
Jul 23, 2021 at 8:48 PM
Through the complete acquisition of the Croatian logistics company Log Adria at the end of June, Rhenus is expanding its activities in the area of the […]
Jul 23, 2021 at 8:07 PM
The Supervisory Board of Häfen und Güterverkehr Köln AG has appointed Dr. Jens-Albert Oppel (53) as Chief Operating Officer (COO). The previously two-member board, consisting of […]
Jul 16, 2021 at 2:40 PM
The Industrial Port of Roßlau, part of the Saxon Inland Ports Oberelbe GmbH, is getting a new port crane. It is a versatile mobile crawler crane […]
Jul 14, 2021 at 6:54 PM
The Swedish company ‘Rederi AB Gotland’ will launch a new ferry line for freight and passenger traffic between the Swedish capital Stockholm (Nynäshamn) and Rostock under […]
Jul 14, 2021 at 6:45 PM
The first direct train from the Chinese city of Hefei in Anhui Province, the freight transport center, has reached JadeWeserPort Wilhelmshaven. The train departed from Hefei […]
Jul 11, 2021 at 10:17 AM
Due to the Covid-19 pandemic, remote technologies are the topic of the hour and more in demand than ever. The Liebherr Group has been working on […]
Jul 11, 2021 at 9:53 AM
The Andernach port has a new container crane bridge. The first parts of the crane were delivered and pre-assembled in the port back in January. The […]
Jul 8, 2021 at 5:56 PM
As the official logistics partner of the Austrian Space Forum (ÖWF), Gebrüder Weiss transports the unique mission equipment and 16 international scientific experiments to the test […]
Jul 8, 2021 at 5:06 PM
a. hartrodt italiana now offers a ‘Multi Destination Consolidation’ service between Shanghai and Genoa, specifically targeting importers in southern Germany, Switzerland, France, and the Mediterranean region. […]
Jul 8, 2021 at 3:55 PM
Hapag-Lloyd has successfully completed the acquisition of the Dutch container shipping company Nile Dutch Investments B.V. (NileDutch) today. After signing a purchase agreement in March, Hapag-Lloyd […]
Jul 7, 2021 at 5:29 PM
The US-based research and development company Hyperloop Transportation Technologies (HyperloopTT) and Hamburger Hafen und Logistik AG (HHLA) will present a virtual reality demonstrator at the ITS […]
Jul 7, 2021 at 4:12 PM
Since the start of production in 2005, Liebherr-MCCtec Rostock GmbH has manufactured and delivered well over 1,000 maritime cranes. The numerous mobile harbor, ship, and offshore […]
Jul 5, 2021 at 5:24 PM
The ‘Parliamentary Group Inland Shipping’ of the North Rhine-Westphalia State Parliament visited the Neuss Port from the water. On board the MS Riverstar, the politicians of […]
Jul 3, 2021 at 5:49 PM
Rhenus Midgard replaces a more than 20-year-old Liebherr LHM 320 with a new Liebherr machine. The LHM 420, recently delivered by the project logistics specialist Rhenus […]
Jul 1, 2021 at 5:10 PM
Swissterminal AG will take over the operation of three inland ports in the Alsace region – Ottmarsheim, Hüningen-Village-Neuf, and Ile Napoléon – starting July 1, 2021. […]
Jun 29, 2021 at 5:27 PM
The shipping company Hapag-Lloyd has opened a new office in Ukraine. The country on the northern shore of the Black Sea and the Sea of Azov […]
Jun 29, 2021 at 4:57 PM
VTG equips its container flatcars and double pocket cars with the SWS-PowerBox. The box enables autonomous, environmentally friendly power supply for temperature-controlled rail transports. With the […]
Jun 27, 2021 at 7:30 PM
This week, two container cranes were loaded for shipping at the HHLA Container Terminal Burchardkai on June 28/29 towards the Estonian capital Tallinn. They will be […]
Jun 23, 2021 at 5:24 PM
The Lübeck Port Company (LHG) has put a new access point into operation at the Scandinavian Quay in Travemünde. The so-called ‘Paper-Gate’ is available to all […]
Jun 21, 2021 at 7:57 PM
Digital freight forwarder Forto has received a financial boost of $240 million, with a majority stake from the SoftBank Vision Fund 2 at a valuation of […]
Jun 18, 2021 at 12:28 PM
After more than ten successful years at the helm of Scandlines, Søren Poulsgaard Jensen has informed the Supervisory Board that the time has come for him […]
Jun 17, 2021 at 4:32 PM
The Association for the Promotion of Short Sea Shipping e.V., as the operator of the Shortsea Shipping Inland Waterway Promotion Center (spc), held its general assembly […]
Jun 16, 2021 at 4:28 PM
The Deymann Group is entering the transport of vegetable oils with the newly founded subsidiary Deymann Tankrode Benelux Logistics BV and fleet expansion. The double-hulled fleet […]
Jun 16, 2021 at 1:15 PM
An important step towards climate neutrality at Kiel Port. The new shore power facility with a capacity of 16 megawatts can supply two ships simultaneously. After […]
Jun 15, 2021 at 5:29 PM
A Liebherr harbour mobile crane of the type LHM 800 will help a new bulk terminal in the Port of Antwerp achieve greater handling capacity. Veemnatie […]
Jun 12, 2021 at 9:02 PM
On June 10, an info container from Contargo will start its journey in Basel to seven other terminal locations. The next stop is Strasbourg, and the […]
Jun 12, 2021 at 8:54 PM
With its initiative for schedule reliability, Hapag-Lloyd addresses one of the biggest challenges in global shipping. Due to high demand, massive COVID-19-related restrictions, and the incident […]
Jun 12, 2021 at 8:39 PM
In a small gathering, the new railway facility of NORDFROST was inaugurated mid-week with its first use, connecting the company’s port terminal with the public railway […]
Jun 10, 2021 at 5:30 PM
Markus Bangen will be the new CEO of Duisburger Hafen AG. He will be responsible for leading the largest inland port in Europe starting December 1, […]
Jun 7, 2021 at 7:49 PM
The 15,000 TEU ship ‘Brussels Express’ from Hapag-Lloyd has been converted to an LNG ship. It has now entered its home port of Hamburg for the […]
Jun 3, 2021 at 6:26 PM
In Hamburg, a summit meeting of the port industry took place with the port policy spokespersons of the Bürgerschaft factions. “The port has the potential to […]
Jun 2, 2021 at 6:05 PM
Contargo GmbH & Co. KG has been awarded the contract to take over the handling operations at the container terminal from the Rheinhafengesellschaft Weil am Rhein […]
Jun 2, 2021 at 5:56 PM
The city council of Saarlouis has halted the construction of a logistics center by the German lubricant manufacturer Meguin in the Saarhafen Dillingen/Saarlouis due to safety […]
Jun 1, 2021 at 3:16 PM
The hazardous goods portal INFr8 by Dakosy, established in air freight and used for the digital exchange of hazardous goods data along the supply chain, has […]
May 28, 2021 at 7:29 PM
The shareholders of Hapag-Lloyd AG today approved all agenda items put to vote at the ordinary virtual Annual General Meeting with the required majority. Among other […]
May 27, 2021 at 7:10 PM
The Association for the Promotion of Short Sea Shipping e. V. looks back on its 20-year anniversary in May 2021. The association operates the ShortSeaShipping Inland […]
May 27, 2021 at 7:03 PM
The seaborne cargo handling in the Port of Hamburg developed more positively than expected in the first quarter of 2021. Particularly, the strong handling performance in […]
May 26, 2021 at 3:20 PM
The shipping company Hapag-Lloyd is following up with an order for another 60,000 TEU standard containers. The containers are set to be delivered starting in July. […]
May 26, 2021 at 3:00 PM
The Logistics Network Central Germany promotes collaboration among stakeholders to optimally utilize different modes of transport through an increase in combined traffic. In Central Germany, the […]
May 21, 2021 at 6:00 PM
Since summer 2020, HGK Shipping has been an integral part of the HGK Group. To symbolically emphasize the connection with Häfen und Güterverkehr Köln AG, the […]
May 20, 2021 at 5:30 PM
With the Corona shock last spring, global trade fell in May 2020 to the levels of the early 2010s. The boom in e-commerce and the demand […]
May 19, 2021 at 5:28 PM
The Port of Södertälje emphasizes its efforts to become a Green Port with the acquisition of the first Liebherr port mobile crane powered by fossil-free HVO100 […]
May 17, 2021 at 8:40 PM
The container trucking company MT Transport GmbH relies on the KV network from catkin and has digitalized order processing down to the driver’s cabin with the […]