On July 13, the first direct train from the Chinese city of Hefei in Anhui province arrived at the JadeWeserPort Wilhelmshaven freight village. The train departed from Hefei on 25 June with a volume of around 100 TEU, mainly household appliances, textiles and electrical goods.

Dr. Tosja Zywietz, member of the Executive Board of SICK AG, and Rolf Adam, SVP and General Manager DACH at Hitachi Solutions Europe, are two renowned leaders who have joined Wiferion's management board. In addition, CMO Julian Seume has also been managing global sales activities as Head of Sales since April.

The Aschaffenburg-based goods handling specialist Linde Material Handling (Linde MH) presents its sustainability report for 2020. It takes stock of the social, ecological and economic aspects of the company's activities and formulates targets.

The NXV narrow-aisle stacker (man-down) shows its strengths particularly in high and narrow warehouse aisles.

Starting signal for the construction of the distribution center for Amazon in Giengen an der Brenz: A symbolic ground-breaking ceremony has now officially begun with the realization of the project, which is of great importance for the town in the district of Heidenheim.

With the SFX series, Hubtex is developing new platform transporters for load capacities of 25 t, 40 t and 65 t.

Logistics services provider Imperial announces that it has entered into an agreement with DP World under which DP World is offering to acquire all of Imperial's issued shares for ZAR 66 per share.

Europäischer Ladungs-Verbund internationaler Spediteure AG, ELVIS for short, is starting the second half of the year with an expanded management team. The Supervisory Board has appointed Nikolja Grabowski (35, pictured) to the Management Board with effect from July 1.

The N7 Cachalot Pro extends the Newland portfolio to rugged warehouse and logistics applications. It offers higher processing speed, fast roaming wireless connections, higher drop and IP ratings and additional flexibility with a choice of 3 keyboard layouts.

It is the undisputed highlight of the year for forklift truck drivers - but also for all fans of new vehicles, state-of-the-art technology and ingenious skill courses: this year's StaplerCup is eagerly awaited.

The French supplier, which specializes in robotic and computer-aided solutions for the supply chain, announces sales growth of 16.5% and is now one of the 20 largest system suppliers in the world.

Beumer Maschinenfabrik, the German regional company of the Beumer Group in Beckum, has had a new Managing Director since May: Dr. Jörn Fontius.

Lufthansa Cargo is investing in the expansion of its cargo capacities. From the beginning of 2022, the company will offer its customers additional capacity in Europe by permanently converting Airbus 321 passenger aircraft into freighters.

Anniversary for Unitechnik: The expert for automation solutions for internal logistics and production celebrates its 50th anniversary.

The fashion and lifestyle company s.Oliver Group is investing in its competitive factor logistics with the construction of a new service center in Dettelbach (Bavaria), which is intended to improve the delivery service, among other things.

LIP Invest, an investment company in the German logistics real estate asset class, is expanding its management team due to its strong growth. Since July 1, Sebastian Betz (33) has been the second managing director alongside company founder Bodo Hollung (61).

On July 1, Dominic Crimp was appointed as the new Chief Operations Officer (COO) of TGW Hub Northern Europe. He succeeds Ian Powell, who has resigned from his position at his own request.

Container traffic at Duisburger Hafen AG (duisport) in the first half of 2021 is significantly higher than in the previous year.

Greiwing logistics for you GmbH has put 12,300 additional pallet spaces and 15 high silos into operation at its Logport site in Duisburg.

Safelog is revamping all models in its AGV portfolio. The new Safelog AGV M4 will be launched in summer 2021.