May 28, 2015: Organisational changes to simplify and streamline operations at Samskip first announced in May 2014 have borne fruit with the formal launch of Samskip Logistics.

SINGAPORE's APL Logistics has announced the opening of a new container freight station (CFS) at the Tungya Collins Terminal in Cakung, North Jakarta.

The seventh edition of the Korea Railways and Logistics Fair, also known as RailLog Korea 2015, will take place between June 10 and 13 at the Busan Exhibition & Convention Centre - BEXCO, Busan, South Korea.

Canadian National aims to start freight service on about 75 percent of the rail network operated by the bankrupt short line Kelowna Pacific Railway in southern British Columbia.

The German government has signed a financial deal for the construction of a third rail line between Emmerich and Oberhausen in the nation’s North Rhine-Westphalia state.

UPS is expanding its Preferred LCL Ocean Freight Service to 10 additional Asian ports, thus taking on a bigger role as NVO.

China is in negotiations over the construction of a rail link across Colombia to rival the Panama Canal. The 137 mile "dry canal,” linking Colombia's Atlantic and Pacific coasts, would make it easier for China to export goods across Latin America and import raw materials such as coal. "It's a real proposal … and it is quite advanced," Juan Manuel Santos, Colombia's president told the Financial Times.

DHL said it is starting a direct less-than-containerload service from Nhava Sheva, Mumbai, in India to Durban, South Africa.

In response to its growing customer base in the energy sector, CEVA Logistics will further expand into West Africa and Central Asia, areas that will be managed under CEVA's Southern Europe, Middle East & Africa (SEMEA) region.

China's aviation industry will lose around US$1.5 billion in revenue in 2012 as a result of competition from the high-speed train network, believes Daiwa Capital Markets.

DB Schenker has launched a new rail service connecting the Norwegian capital of Oslo to the Arctic Circle town of Narvik.

DHL has launched a direct LCL service from Shanghai to Atlanta, enhancing its connectivity between China and the US with the new weekly service that reduces transit times by at least seven days.

APL Logistics has introduced a new containerised cross-border trucking service from Phnom Penh in Cambodia to Cai Mep port in Vietnam.

Following the successful launch of the DHL Euroconnect product to and from Morocco in April, DHL Freight now offers groupage services to and from Tunisia.

Toll Royal Railway, the company that won the contract to operate the Cambodia railway system, said the line between Phnom Penh and Touk Meas has officially opened.