Freeport East, centred on the ports of Felixstowe and Harwich, celebrated the coronation of King Charles with something that has become a tradition in the logistics industry. No surprise that the quayside displayed a special...Read more
With nothing more than a phone and a desk, Aleksandrs Gnedovs started the container supplying company Conway in 2018. Three years forward, the fleet counts almost 4,000 units, three branches and a representative office in...Read more
Laude Smart Intermodal S.A has designed a new high-capacity container: the 40’ SBOT. The Polish logistics company has explicitly developed the container for transportation between China and Europe. Its primary characteristic concerns the increase of...Read more
“In all my years working in this industry, I have never seen anything this crazy”, says Osmo Lahtinen, the founder of the Finnish container leasing company OVL. The ‘crazy’ refers to the different situations in...Read more
Felixstowe, the busiest intermodal port in the UK, is struggling to deal with cargo logistics, and a mounting backlog of shipping containers is causing frustration for maritime and road operators. The east coast of England...Read more
Recently, the shortage of containers has become a source of frustration for the logistics industry. Due to the imbalance between China and Europe trade, a large number of containers is stranded in the European ports...Read more
The Dutch Central Bureau of Statistics has started an investigation into the container streams in the Netherlands. It wants to gain insight into the routes from start to finish. Reliable data on this is currently...Read more
Digitalisation is going really strong on Russia’s railway network. RZD, as the national railway operator, substantially increases the share of containers that are processed paperless with the help of dedicated digital platforms. The company also...Read more
Disruptions to the international supply chain have put container traffic in a spin. Racking up storage fees may be welcome income for port operators, but only while sufficient capacity exists. With intermodal accounting for nearly...Read more
KTZ Express, an intermodal subsidiary of Kazakhstan Railways, has contributed to fighting with the coronavirus in the country. It delivered to Almaty, the largest city in Kazakhstan, the components for the prefabricated hospital. The medical...Read more
Electronics, car parts or fast-moving consumer goods have already become common good on container trains between China and Russia. In order to increase and improve rail freight traffic between the countries, logistics companies are looking...Read more
Despite the reduction of bulk volume, intermodal transportation on the Polish railway network is growing. In 2019 the overall rail freight traffic in the country decreased by 5.5 per cent while the intermodal sector set...Read more
After COSCO’s success in the Greek seaport of Piraeus, other Chinese companies are in the game for constructing and operating a new container terminal in the Port of Rijeka, the largest harbour in Croatia. The...Read more
The Polish economy is reducing the consumption of coal. This has a direct impact on the country’s rail freight sector. As a result, the carriers are being refocused to the transportation of the containers. This...Read more
The seaports of Gdansk and Piraeus have shown enormous growth of container traffic in the last 13 years: by around 2,040 per cent and 312 per cent. Such figures make them the most dynamic container...Read more
DP World will add a new container terminal to its network. The Dubai-based logistics group plans to purchase a majority stake of 51 per cent in TIS Container Terminal, one of the largest intermodal facilities...Read more
Five months after lifting the ban on the transit of EU fresh products to third countries via Russia, transportation of this freight is still not possible. To change this, Russia should create clarity about the...Read more
Sweden will get a new regular rail-ferry-rail connection to the German intermodal hub of Duisburg. Two railway legs will be arranged by DB Cargo Scandinavia, Kombiverkehr and Spedition Bode while the sea leg will be...Read more
Russian Railways (RZD) intends to launch a multimodal service from China to Norway and back. The rail freight connections via Russia will be combined with shipping lines on the Baltic and Northern seas. In this...Read more
TransContainer, the largest rail freight service provider in Russia, has been transferred to a new main shareholder. The company’s major stake previously held by Russian Railways (RZD) was purchased at the auction by another logistics...Read more
Czech logistics company Metrans, a subsidiary of HHLA, has opened a new intermodal terminal in Königs Wusterhausen in the vicinity of Berlin. The facility was launched in partnership with LUTRA, operator of GVZ Schönefelder Kreuz...Read more