Agility opens pharma facility at Hyderabad
Kuwaiti freight forwarder Agility has opened a specialist facility for pharmaceutical products at Hyderabad International Airport in India. The facility has a footprint of 6,000 square metres and it will serve the array of pharma manufacturers that are spread across the area in Hyderabad, Goa, Pune, Vizag and Bengaluru. Agility says the first temperature-controlled life sciences storage and handling facility […]
Accelya and Mercator join forces
Accelya and Mercator are to join forces, which they say will a create a global technology-enabled solutions provider to airlines, travel agents and freight forwarders. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed and the merger is expected to close in the first quarter of 2017. Both say they will offer a broadened product portfolio with complementary offerings including […]
Freightos report finds forwarders not engaging enough digitally
A survey by logistics tech company Freightos into whether top freight forwarders are engaging in digital marketing and online sales has found so far it is “mostly talk and little action’. The ‘mystery shopper’ report focused on the world’s top 20 freight forwarders in late 2016 to see the state of online freight sales. Freightos […]
Rhenus opens new business site in South Korea
The Rhenus Group has opened another office in South Korea – in Busan after launching into the market in November last year. The global logistics firm will mainly provide air and sea freight services from the site, while the office will also handle project business for the oil and gas industry, provide third-party logistics services and […]
Crane Worldwide opens office at Amsterdam Schiphol
Crane Worldwide in the Netherlands has invested in a brand new head office facility at the heart of Amsterdam Airport Schiphol. The new facility houses the country’s head office staff, as well as an active airfreight operation offering dedicated client support. The warehouse facility offers value-added services such as storage, pick and pack operations, labelling and […]
DSV restructures management team
Freight forwarder DSV has appointed two new divisional chief commercial officers (CCO) to “further develop our commercial activities and customer relationships”. The new team of divisional CCOs are for DSV Air & Sea Holding, Michael D. Hansen; DSV Road Holding, Wilbert Tholhuijsen; DSV Solutions, Meinderdjan Botman; and DSV Sub Saharan Africa, Jenny Purchase. All DSV divisions and Sub Saharan Africa now have a […]
Globalia Logistics Network begins operations
Globalia Logistics Network has begun operations today (Wednesday 15 December) with 52 member companies in 74 cities across 56 countries. The network was founded by Antonio Torres in response to the demands for membership of Conqueror Freight Network, his first freight forwarder network founded in 2010. Globalia says its launch comes at the end of […]
Agility sees net profit rise of 11% in Q3
Agility has reported a net profit of 15.17 million Kuwaiti Dinar (KD) ($49.8 million) in the third quarter (Q3) of 2016 – an increase of 11 per cent compared to Q3 of 2015. The Kuwaiti freight forwarder’s earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortisation (EBITDA) was 28.90 million KD, a 19 per cent rise on the same period in […]
UTi acquisition continues to boost DSV
Danish freight forwarder DSV continues to see growth across the business since the acquisition of UTi, it reports in its interim report for the third quarter (Q3). The company completed the takeover of UTi at the start of 2016 and says airfreight volumes, revenues and gross profits were all up in Q3. Air volumes in Q3 […]
Panalpina blossoming after buying Airflo
Flowers and perishables in general are blooming for Panalpina in Kenya and across Africa and it expects this trend to continue over the next five to six years. Country manager for Kenya, Conrad Archer tells Justin Burns that growth has been considerable since the acquisition of Airflo last year – Kenya’s second largest freight forwarder, which […]
Strong demand in Q3 for Panalpina
Panalpina saw good growth in the third quarter as it posted an airfreight volumes surge of 10 per cent on the same quarter last year handling 228 million tonnes. For the first nine months of 2016, demand is nine per cent up on the same time last year at 659 million tonnes. Overall airfreight gross […]
Waller appointed CFO at CEVA Logistics
CEVA Logistics has appointed Peter Waller as chief finance officer and member of the executive board with immediate effect. Waller succeeds Arjan Kaaks, who has chosen to leave CEVA to pursue new opportunities. He has previously been Group CFO at Eurofins Scientific and spent over eight years with the Thomas Cook Group where he held […]
a. hartrodt arranges the shipment of a rare rhino
Freight forwarder a. hartrodt (Belgium) arranged the transportation of a rare rhino via Singapore Airlines Cargo and says it was delighted to “contribute to the survival of rhinos”. The challenging task saw a 1100 kilogramme rhino from a German zoo via Brussels Airport to Australia. The highly endangered mammal was destined for a breeding facility Down Under […]
Dimerco opens new office in India
Freight forwarder Dimerco has opened a new office in Hyderabad, India. The company says this will support one of Dimerco’s major customers, a mobile handset company who will be establishing a new production facility in Hyderabad. The office it explains will also strengthen Dimerco’s customs brokerage service, according to Dimerco’s India country manager, Mraveen Dadala. […]
Muller to replace Reuter at Dachser from January 2018
Jochen Müller will take over from Thomas Reuter as chief operations officer (COO) of the Air & Sea Logistics business arm at Dachser from 1 January 2018. The 52-year-old will replace Thomas Reuter as COO and during the transition period, Müller will work on developing projects, which he will start on 1 October this year. Reuter will remain […]
Parra the main man for CEVA in Costa Rica
CEVA Logistics has appointed Willie Parra Fonseca as country manager for the growing market of Costa Rica in Central America. He will be based at the logistic firm’s San José office reporting to Mike Wilson, senior vice president and head of the Central America cluster. Parra has an extensive track record in both project management and […]
Agility appoints Guerra as Australasia CEO
Agility has appointed industry veteran Frank Guerra to be chief executive officer (CEO) for Australasia, giving him responsibility for operations in Australia, New Zealand, and Papua New Guinea. Guerra has over 30 years of experience in the logistics industry. He joined Agility in 2010 as general manager for contract logistics in Australia. Most recently, he […]
Priority Freight expands German office with new airfreight department
Priority Freight has enhanced its operations in the heart of mainland Europe by setting up a new emergency airfreight department at its office in Willich, Germany. The upgraded office – located less than 25 kilometres from Düsseldorf International Airport – has been fitted with Priority’s tracking and IT systems, which it says will improve speed […]
B&H Worldwide forms partnership with African freight forwarder
B&H Worldwide has appointed ACX (Advanced Cargo Express) as its agent for Morocco – the first time the company has formed a partnership with a North African freight forwarder. Based Casablanca’s Mohammed V Airport, ACX has a considerable aerospace industry experience and is able to provide direct airside capability at the gateway. B&H Worldwide and ACX have previously […]
Airfreight volume rise of 8% for Panalpina
Panalpina’s airfreight volumes increased eight per cent in the first six months of 2016, while it says the market decreased by an estimated three per cent. The freight forwarder says volumes from acquired companies accounted for six per cent of air cargo growth and it saw higher volumes in the perishables sector, but lower volumes […]
K + N appoints new head of airfreight
Kuehne + Nagel (K + N) has appointed Yngve Ruud as a new member of the Management Board effective 1 October 2016 – to take on the role as head of the business unit Airfreight Logistics. He succeeds Tim Scharwath who will leave the company – as communicated four weeks ago – in the course of the next year. […]
Geodis moves to new office in Mumbai
Geodis has increased its presence in Mumbai, India after relocating its premises to The Qube in Andheri. The freight management and logistics firm says it is driven by the continuous growth of its India business and the expansion of the Mumbai team. Geodis’ cluster managing director for South Asia, Leif Voelcker says: “The relocation will foster a higher level of […]
DSV posts better than expected performance in Q1
Danish freight forwarder DSV has seen airfreight volumes rise in the first quarter (Q1) of 2016, which contributed to overall higher revenues – in its first quarterly report since buying UTi Worldwide for $1.35 billion on 22 January 2016. The world’s fourth largest forwarder says its Air & Sea Division delivered the best performance for the first quarter (Q1) […]
Freight forwarder Panalpina outstrips market in Q1
Panalpina says in the first quarter (Q1) of 2016 its airfreight volumes grew five per cent to 216,000 tonnes – in a market that shrank an estimated three per cent. The Swiss freight forwarder says while volumes “contracted substantially in oil and gas“ they grew in all other industries including perishables. In ocean freight it […]
IJS Global GEFCO Netherlands gains pharma GDP certificate
IJS Global GEFCO Netherlands (NL) has been awarded a Good Distribution Practice (GDP) certificate by the Dutch Ministry of Health, with immediate effect. The internationally-recognised certificate shows the company fulfils the requirements of the European Commission ‘Guidelines on Good Distribution Practice of Medicinal Products for Human Use’ and of World Health Organization guidelines. IJS Global […]
Tokyo Freight planning on building new logistics complex
Qatari freight forwarder Tokyo Freight is looking for further growth and is planning on building a logistics complex near Hamad Port in Doha. The company will consolidate all its services and capabilities into a single hub to take advantage of the proximity to imports coming into the country through the port. At the new facility, […]
Top freight forwarders losing ground, WorldACD reports
Air cargo market data analyst WorldACD says the top 20 freight forwarders saw their worldwide market share decline from 44.5 per cent to 43 per cent in 2015 – based on revenue, measured in US dollars. The Amsterdam firm bases figures on the inputs of more than 60 (mostly large) airlines, who provide their full worldwide air waybill […]
CEVA appoints Adoran to lead key cluster
CEVA Logistics has appointed Fuat Adoran to lead its Balkan, Middle East and Africa cluster, promoting him from managing director of CEVA Turkey. Adoran will continue to be based in Istanbul and will report to company chief executive officer, Xavier Urbain. He has worked at CEVA since the company was established in Turkey in 2001. In […]
Net profit up 5% in Q3 for Agility
Agility has posted a net profit of 13.7 million Kuwaiti Dinar (KD) ($45 million) in the third quarter (Q3) of 2015, an increase of five per cent compared to Q3 of 2014. The logistics company says for the first nine months of 2015, its profits were 39 million KD, a five per cent rise from same period last year. […]