Captain Robin Espinosa is one of the few female captains on the seven seas. Living in the male-dominated world at sea has never been a problem for her. The most important thing to have is nautical skills – especially if a container ship has to rescue the crew of a sailing yacht. Here, the Captain reports from her way up and on the bridge.

In roughly four years, Dachser has integrated its Iberian subsidiary Azkar Group into its European road network. The overland transport organizations will operate under the names of Dachser Spain and Dachser Portugal in the future.

Effective 1 July, Bud Darr is to join MSC Group as Executive Vice President, Maritime Policy and Government Affairs. Mr Darr, a seasoned professional with over 25 years’ experience in the international maritime field, was most recently Senior Vice President of Technical and Regulatory Affairs for the Cruise Lines International Association (CLIA.)

The Port of Rotterdam is creating space for an offshore centre for wind energy at sea, decommissioning (the dismantling of oil and gas platforms) and the oil and gas market. 

Producers from the chemical industry, the chemical trade and the pharmaceutical industry will in future have new opportunities to store special products at the dangerous goods warehouses operated by Imperial at temperatures between 2° C and 8° C. Imperial has now put into service a separate refrigerated section at its dangerous goods warehouse in Mannheim.

Global trade is shifting and the centuries-old model that saw maritime superpowers located in the western world controlling cargo flows across the high seas is giving way to a more multi-directional and multimodal future.

Tim Scharwath has formally joined the Board of Management of Deutsche Post DHL Group as the new CEO of DHL Global Forwarding, Freight. 

Ninety percent of Domestic Fortune 500 companies use 3PLs for logistics and supply chain functions, according to a new report just released by Armstrong & Associates.

AAL has successfully completed the transportation of two giant ‘cyclone vessels’ (each measuring approx. 22m x 11m x 10m and weighing over 500mt) to Petronas’ US$27 billion RAPID project in Malaysia, on behalf of leading freight forwarder, Oceansmart Global.

Sappi Southern Africa, a subsidiary of Sappi Limited, the world’s largest manufacturer of dissolving wood pulp (DWP), has chosen Kuehne + Nagel as its preferred partner for seafreight order management.