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Delta first to adopt online payment system

Delta Cargo has become the first Unisys carrier partner to offer its customers direct access to online payment processing through PayCargo’s online payment solution, which is now directly integrated with Unisys’ cargo management system. The Application Programming Interface (API) integration connects PayCargo directly into Unisys’ Digistics solutions including their Cargo Portal Solution, Digi-Portal. It automates payment creation for payers, including freight forwarders, importers and cargo owners, as well as providing real-time remittance ... [+]

LOTs of potential in Dublin for Polish airline

LOT Polish Airlines is adding Dublin to its route network on 23 August after an absence of more than a decade, reports Routes Online. It plans to offer a four times a week connection from Warsaw Chopin with a Boeing 737-800 aircraft on Monday, Wednesday, Friday and Sunday. LOT began service between ... [+]

Rhenus buys barge firm

Rhenus Group has signed a purchase contract with OT Logistics Capital Group and the Carl Robert Eckelmann company to acquire a majority stake in inland water operator Deutsche Binnenreederei, for an undisclosed sum. Deutsche Binnenreederei has offices in Berlin and Hamburg and mainly operates on waterways in eastern German and Poland, ... [+]

Kuehne+Nagel comes through the crisis

Kuehne+Nagel Group said it achieved a good financial result in the second quarter and first half of 2020 in the face of the corona crisis. Market share gains and the cost savings had a positive impact, with net turnover for the first half-year CHF 9.8 billion – down just 7.5% ... [+]

Schiphol freighters fail to offset drooping bellies

An increase in full freighter cargo did not make up for the decline in belly traffic in the first half of 2020 at Amsterdam Schiphol airport, which saw a 14.% fall in freight to 655,942 tonnes. Full freighter flights were up 48.1% but the number of belly flights dropped by ... [+]

Dachser hastens to build Hesse hub

Logistics provider Dachser has started construction on a new branch in Kassel in northern Hesse. Located in the Lohfelden commercial zone, the new transit terminal is due for completion by summer 2021. The groundbreaking ceremony was attended by vice president of the Kassel district government, Dr Alexander Friedrich Wachter, deputy ... [+]

Getting to grips with a complex world

P&O Ferrymasters has launched a consultancy service to help customers to manage complex supply chain challenges. It starts with data cleansing, analysis, modelling and mapping to visualise the customer’s current supply chain and create a clear baseline.  The consultants then work on multiple scenarios, fully assessed for timing, availability, costs ... [+]

Tigers appoints new China chief

Asian forwarder Tigers has appointed Jana Schebera as its new managing director, China. Prior to moving to Tigers, she spent more than a decade in the industry including positions as managing director for Hong Kong and South China at Rhenus Logistics, and business development roles at M+R Spedag Group. [+]

WCA members log on to keep in touch

The WCA World network of cargo agents has announced a slate of virtual conferences for the fourth quarter of this year. Having already completed its initial online meeting in June for members of Global Affinity Alliance, WCA World is scheduling three additional such events for WCA and its two associated ... [+]

FTA becomes Logistics UK

The Freight Transport Association (FTA) will change its name to Logistics UK on 27 July.  It will however continue to represent the whole sector, including road, rail, sea, air, retailers and manufacturers.  The change of name was planned for earlier in the year but was postponed due to the Covid ... [+]

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