GST Stadler attends to new countries and enforces combined transportExpanding the transport service to further countries, and launching a cost-saving service line for operations in combined road/rail transport, GST Stadler Güterverkehrs GmbH provides new options to its customers. Since recently the part and full load transport services cover also Romania, Bulgaria, Russia, Greece, Turkey, Portugal,…
Costa Container Lines becomes Hamburg Süd by 2009 As per January 1, 2009, the shipping group Hamburg Süd abandons its brand name Costa Container Lines (CCL) and replaces it by the well-known name „Hamburg Süd“, in order to have a global corporate identity. As per December 1, 2007, Hamburg Süd had taken over the liner…
UPS operates Boeing 747-400 freighter from Cologne-Bonn to Hong Kong From now on UPS deploys the first Boeing 747-400 freighter in regular service on the route from Cologne-Bonn to Hong Kong. The jet replaces a MD-11 freighter and provides additional capacities on this route. With its operation ex Cologne-Bonn, the world’s biggest parcel delivery service…
Lugstein forwarding company celebrates “vehicle-jubilee” Started five years ago, the cooperation between the Lugstein forwarding company and the Pappas Group is now celebrating a remarkable jubilee. The transportation and logistics service provider based in Straßwalchen (Austria) took over the 100 th truck of the Mercedes-Benz Actros-line a few days ago. The “jubilee vehicle” is the…
Econ provides access to Eastern Europe and the CIS for 24plus The general cargo cooperation 24plus logistics network, Hauneck (Germany), has been collaborating with the Econ-company for Eastern European logistics, Essen, as an associated partner since mid-November 2008. Being a medium-sized cooperation itself, Econ provides access to its comprehensive general cargo network in Eastern Europe,…
AVE-Logistic from Latvia connects Lübeck-Travemünde with Liepaja Since recently the ferry shipping company AVE-Logistic operates a ferry service between Lübeck-Travemünde and Liepaja, Latvia, with three weekly departures. The ferry operations start their journey from Lübeck to Latvia every Monday at 2 p.m., and on Wednesdays and Fridays at 11p.m. AVE-Logistic, headquartered in Riga, deploys the…
Lebert-Navis airfreight forwarding services now also cover Frankfurt In addition to dispatch options at the Airports in Hamburg, Munich and Stuttgart, the customers of the Lebert-Navis Übersee Spedition GmbH (overseas forwarding) now may also use Frankfurt as a gateway for importations and exportations. „All Lebert-locations now offer daily connections to the Airport in Frankfurt to…
Container operator easyrail.at and WLB Cargo about to cooperate The recently established container operator easyrail.at (Vienna) is relying on a strong partner regarding the management of the blocktrains from Vienna via Enns to Hamburg/Bremerhaven and back, starting by January 2009 under the name „Rail Gate Austria“. „The Wiener Lokalbahnen Cargo GmbH will assume the transaction…
Port of Koper registeres more than 4 million tons in Austria-transit „For the Port of Koper Austria is the most important market abroad. Last year more than 4 million tons of goods with departure and destination points in Austria were handled at our quay facilities.“ This was the statement of Robert Casar, President and Chief…
Logwin logistics terminal in Senec stands its first test Having acquired a new large scale customer, the transport- and logistics service provider Logwin Slovakia moved into a new terminal in Senec near Bratislava at the beginning of this month. The Einhell-company, which manufactures do-it-yourself, mechanic and gardening tools, reserves more than 2,000 pallet storage spaces…
Shipping alliance CKYH rationalises global route network The CKYH shipping alliance formed by the Coscon, „K“ Line, Yang Ming and Hanjin shipping companies is streamlining and rationalising the schedules as a response to decreasing demand for capacities for the shipment of containerised seafreight. The EMX-services (East Med Express) from Asia to Israel and Greece was…
Fritz Mayer transports CLT-products of Stora Enso Timber The Fritz Mayer freight forwarding company, based in Zeltweg in Styria, landed a new large-scale order from the forest products industry. For the customer Stora Enso Timber the company forwards CLT-products (Cross Laminated Timber) from the new production site of solid wood plates in Bad St. Leonhard…
Wolfgang Einer succeeds Raimund Berger at DHL ESC Austria The Austrian DHL Exel Supply Chain-company is in Austria managed by a new head. Wolfgang Einer (43) has been holding the function as Managing Director since November 1. The “newcomer” at the contract logistics specialist-company of Deutsche Post World Net has been active with DHL Express…
M&M considerably expanded terminal capacities at Hof With a significant investment the international forwarding and logistics group M&M Militzer & Münch created the basis for further growth at its German headquarters in Hof/Oberfranken – it expanded the terminal capacities considerably. According to a press release of the management, this was a response to the increased…
CKYH-shipping companies streamlining offer on Asia-Europe trade-line The CKYH-shipping alliance (Coscon, „K“ Line, Yang Ming, Hanjin) is about to reduce the offer on the routes between Asia and Europe (northern continent) considerably. By implementing several measures between December and March, the capacity of the liner services is to be cut by 16,000 TEU per week,…
Spedition Fuchs moves to new location in Vienna-Inzersdorf The Spedition H. Fuchs Ltd. changes to another location in Vienna. The company moves from its previously used facility at the freight centre at the Südbahnhof-area (railway station in Vienna), to the newly adapted facility at the address Großmarktstraße 16, in Vienna’s 23rd district. This was announced…
Ceva Logistics acquires Transitalia to consolidate position in publishing logistic With the acquisition of the Transitalia-company the Italian affiliate of Ceva Logistics consolidates its position as leading provider of logistics services for the publishing industry in Italy. The transaction is yet subject to the approval by the competition authority in Rome, and is planned to…
Shanghai Hengjin Logistics – the new partner of Customs agency PorathSince the beginning of November the customs broker Porath Customs Agents, headquartered in Hamburg, has been cooperating with a partner in China for the first time. Shanghai Hengjin Logistics Co. Ltd., based in the free trade zone Waigaoqiao at the Port of Shanghai, is a…
Swedish forwarder TransFargo about to move to Sunnana The construction works of the new logistics facility of the TransFargo forwarding company in Sunnana near Malmö in southern Sweden, will shortly be finished. The facility that provides 13,000 sq. m. of storage and throughput area, situated in the Öresund region, will start operating by December. The…
Dachser Austria Air & Sea meets highest safety standards Being one of the biggest transportation and logistics enterprises, the internationally acting logistics service provider Dachser in Austria was conferred the status of “AEO (Authorised Economic Operator) for air and sea transportation. In the context of the continuous securing the international delivery chain, enterprises in the…
DB Schenker opens second location in Bosnia-Herzegovina To expand the market position on the Balkans is one of the primary targets of DB Schenker. „We intend to densify the network and cover the currently white spots in the field of comprehensive national distribution. Moreover we are preparing to open locations in Montenegro and in Pristina…
Agility sets further milestone for expansion in Central Europe A new facet was added to the expansion of the globally acting transportation and logistics group Agility in the region of Central and Eastern Europe. The enterprise recently opened a new logistics centre at the BILK-terminal area in the Hungarian capital Budapest. The facility equipped with…
CAT Logistics-warehouse in Breda serves a role model in safety-concerns The CAT Logistics-terminal in Breda was awarded as warehouse with the highest saftey-standars in the Netherlands by a prominent and independent jury. The 10,000 sq. m.-facility harbours the European spare-parts logistic center of the customer Ssangyong Motors. From Breda retailers and garages in 20 countries…
DHL Express cuts transit times in EMEA-region In the pre-Christmas period DHL Express offers to its customer shorter transit times on the routes between Europe, Eastern Europe, Africa and the Middle East. In a press release the Management announced the acceleration of the consignments handling on 27,000 lanes. The new air-hub in Leipzig is the…
PaulGünther helps customers to increase their liquidity and utilisationIn the context of its „Sale & Rent back“-program the PaulGünther AG launched a buying offensive for existing semi-trailer stocks. Logistics enterprises that want to increase their financial and operative flexibility may sell some or all their semi-trailers to the Hamburg-based specialist. Afterwards PaulGünther leases modern and…
Maersk Line registered decline in container traffic from Asia to Europe „Bad news“ for the Maersk Line concerning container-transport from Asia to Europe. In the third quarter of the year 2008 transport volumes declined by 3 percent compared to the same period last year. In the second quarter the volume showed a 2 percent loss. The…
VTG Group registered substantial increases in turnover and resultsVTG Aktiengesellschaft (limited liability company), which counts among the leading rail logistics and wagon leasing enterprises in Europe, continued its growth course successful within the first nine months of the current financial year. Turnover and operative result (EBITDA) showed a considerable rise compared to last year. The…
Strong development of container traffic at Ports of Bremen Jürgen Holtermann, chairman of the Executive Management of the bremenports GmbH & Co. KG, expects at least a 10 percent-rise in container throughput for the year 2008. „After the first nine months we register a figure that exceeds last year’s value by 15 percent, but now…
Ökombi-capacities to be substantially expanded until 2010 The Ökombi-company, operating the rolling road oeprations in the RCA Group, takes course to a record result. General Manager Franz Dirnbauer expects a total volume of 335,000 trucks for 2008, which means a 14%-increase compared to last year. On the Brenner-axis 171,490 trucks (+ 27.6%) were shifted from…
Gebrüder Weiss blocktrain solution „Orange Combi Cargo“ highly honoured The Gebrüder Weiss GmbH shifted more than 15,000 truck transportations with the „Orange Combi Cargo“ blocktrain solution from road to rail in the year 2008. This special combined road/rail transport service was the reason why the freight forwarder received the „Staatspreis Verkehr 2008“ (state award in…
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