
53 electric vehicles arrive at the BLG...
BLG Logistics wins new customer for handling e-cars
The Chinese company Aiways has chosen AutoTerminal Bremerhaven as the first port transshipment point for its battery-electric SUVs.

53 electric vehicles arrive at the BLG...
The Chinese company Aiways has chosen AutoTerminal Bremerhaven as the first port transshipment point for its battery-electric SUVs.

The company is expanding its site in Maria Lanzendorf by almost 5,000 square meters of handling space in order to better meet the increased requirements resulting from the growth of the Home Delivery division.

Logistics service provider BTK Befrachtungs- und Transportkontor GmbH has expanded its contract logistics division at team leader level and acquired two new customers.

On 20.07.20, Heiner Matthias Honold, Managing Partner of the Honold Logistik Group, presented the company's results for 2019.

Philipp Reich, owner of the transport company Reich from Vimfow, took delivery of two new vehicles with Power Curtain at the Schmitz Cargobull curtainsider semi-trailer plant in Altenberge.

Transportation of valuable equipment
The logistics and transportation expert Gebrüder Weiss will transport globally unique mission equipment and 16 international scientific experiments from Austria to the test site in the Negev Desert, Israel.

The research project "KOPKIB - Customer-oriented parcel delivery by the neighborhood courier" will enter the practical testing phase on July 13.

"Best quality and best service in Europe"
For the fourth time in a row, the logistics service provider trans-o-flex Express has won this year's award for best quality in the EURODIS international distribution network, which is active in 36 European countries.

Generational change in the management of NOSTA Holding GmbH: The previous Chief Financial Officer (CFO) Thomas Müller retired at the end of June 2020 after 27 years with the NOSTA Group.

Traveling autonomously in the terminal
The "Autonomous Innovation in Terminal Operations" (ANITA) project will be launched on July 1 to automate handling between modes of transport. To this end, a fully automated truck is being developed and tested in real logistics operations at the DUSS terminal in Ulm.

On July 1, the Gebrüder Weiss customer magazine "ATLAS - Die Welt bewegt" was awarded the Best of Content Marketing Award 2020 with gold in the category "Transport / Logistics / Automotive".

In future, Albert Craiss GmbH & Co KG will be responsible for all intralogistics at the Tübingen warehouse and assembly site of a well-known technology group. The logistics specialist's task is to ensure absolute just-in-sequence delivery reliability at the plant.

Mercedes-Benz Vans has handed over seven battery-electric eSprinters to the logistics service provider DPD for locally emission-free delivery in urban traffic at its Berlin and Nuremberg sites. These are to be used for parcel delivery.

Create a GLS parcel label on your smartphone, pay by PayPal, credit card or SEPA direct debit and have the label scanned as a QR code on the device in the GLS ParcelShop - the new GLS app is designed to enable fast, paperless and cashless parcel shipping. It also navigates the user to the nearest GLS ParcelShop if required.

The logistics startup Pamyra is entering into a strategic partnership with the logistics service provider CTL Cargo Trans Logistik as part of the new business customer division PamyraPro. CTL's national general cargo network will be a central component of the platform's offering.

Hellmann Worldwide Logistics has been the first customer to use the MegaHub in Lehrte since mid-June. The facility for combined transport (CT) is operated by MegaHub Lehrte Betreibergesellschaft mbH, a subsidiary of Deutsche Umschlaggesellschaft Schiene-Straße (DUSS).

DB Schenker has revised its Drive4Schenker tool to enable a more straightforward and proactive exchange with transport service providers. New options for receiving offers are intended to improve interaction with carriers.

New locations in Australia and New Zealand
The transport and logistics company Gebrüder Weiss is opening national subsidiaries in Australia and New Zealand on July 1, 2020. This is the first time the company has been represented in the southern hemisphere.

On July 1, Hubertus Dieckmann is appointed Managing Director of Pierau Planung, alongside Arne Pierau and Björn Brunkow. He succeeds Lothar Hättich, who ends his active professional career on June 30.

The Hamburg drugstore chain BUDNI (Budnikowsky GmbH & Co. KG) is becoming a strategic partner in the parcel store network of the international parcel and express service provider DPD. With immediate effect, there will be a Pickup parcel store in almost 100 BUDNI stores in the Hamburg metropolitan region and in Berlin.