Chris Lewis

Freightliner signs up for 150 new wagons

Rail operator Freightliner has signed a deal with leasing company Porterbrook for 150 new intermodal wagons on the UK railway, to be built by WH Davis in the UK.  They will begin to arrive in early 2027 and will be a new design based on 40ft platforms which allow greater efficiency and around a 7% carbon reduction versus 60ft wagons. [+]

Digital tool gives handler planning with precision

Worldwide Flight Services (WFS), a SATS company, has developed a new digital tool using machine learning algorithms trained on 10 years of operational data to deliver forecasts of cargo volumes by flight, truck, and day. It gives each warehouse precise data to align workforce and resources in advance. The air cargo ... [+]

TAP extends Brazil connection

TAP Air Portugal has expanded its GRU Connect cargo service to São Paulo, Brazil. The Portuguese airline now offers four routes and a total of 37 weekly cargo flights to Guarulhos Airport. Along with the existing GRU Direct, Via Fortaleza and Via Brasília services, the network now includes the new ... [+]

Arvato breaks ground on 11th Türkiye site

Arvato held a groundbreaking ceremony for a new 40,000sq m logistics hub in Çayırova near Istanbul, Türkiye on 8 December. The new warehouse, which is scheduled to go into operation in October 2026, is the logistics operator’s 11th operations centre in the country. “While we are continuing to expand our operational ... [+]

Dachser to build food hub in South-West Germany

Dachser is creating a new location for food logistics in southwest Germany by expanding its existing logistics centre for industrial and consumer goods in the Breisgau industrial park near Freiburg. The new transit terminal, which will be cooled to 2 to 7 degrees Celsius is scheduled to go into operation ... [+]

SpeedX opens Chicago hub

Last-mile parcel delivery company SpeedX has opened an e-commerce and freight hub Chicago O’Hare International Airport with a  capacity of a million parcels per day. The 200,000sq ft building includes an auto-sorter with processing speeds of up to 30,000 parcels per hour and 500,000 shipments daily during peak season.  It offers ... [+]

E-commerce engine shows signs  of slowdown

Christmas came early for global air cargo volumes in November with a further +5% year-on-year boost in demand adding to the seasonal cheer, but the industry’s e-commerce ‘growth engine’ of the past two years is slowing down, according market analysis from Xeneta.  While the demand for the traditionally busiest time of ... [+]

DHL thinks outside the box

Most of the vast numbers of consignments that DHL Group moves in a typical year are unremarkable parcels and containers but a few shipments stood out from the crowd in 2025. For example, in February, DHL transported 17 mountain bongo antelopes from a conservation centre in Loxahatchee, Florida, to a wildlife ... [+]

Europa discusses Dartford traffic woes with local MP

Europa Worldwide Group recently welcomed local MP Jim Dickson to its Dartford headquarters to discuss how to ease congestion in the area.Europa Worldwide Group’s 27,000sq m transit hub — the largest European groupage facility in the UK — is adjacent to the Dartford Crossing. Europa is a supporter of the ... [+]

Land and sea effort gets transformer to Hull

Staffordshire-based specialist shipping company Robert Wynn & Sons has delivered a transformer to Statkraft’s Thornton Greener Grid Park Project in Hull, in partnership with Collett & Sons. The operation began at Portland Port, where Wynns’ heavy lift ro/ro barge Terra Marique loaded a 24-axle girder frame trailer of 140 tonnes. The ... [+]

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