Published March 24, 2022 — Tandem Global Logistics Germany (The Rieck Logistics Group) is investing around EUR 26 million in a new freight forwarding facility in north-west Berlin. The construction of the new terminal is already in full swing and the first concrete columns are currently being erected.
Read morePublished February 25, 2022 — The Dutch port of Rotterdam has also passed the worst of the crisis. Container throughput rose to 15.3 million teu, while total throughput was 7.3% higher than in 2020, amounting to 468.7 million t. This corresponds to the pre-crisis level of 2019.
Read morePublished February 16, 2022 — Tandem Canada (dba Canaan Group) celebrated 40 years in business last year. With all the volatility in the transportation industry in 2021, I haven’t had any time to reflect on this milestone until now. As I think back over the past 40 years, the most important figure was my late father who started this business. It also happens to be 20 years since he passed away. To commemorate 40 years of the business my father established, it seems most fitting to share his life story with you.
Read morePublished December 24, 2021 — Last month’s torrential rain and flooding in British Columbia caused large disruptions to the movement of containers as well as shortages of food and emergency supplies.
Read morePublished December 10, 2021 — A recently published report throws light on the strategies the logistics industry is likely to develop next year. The company Container X Change's "industry speak survey 2021-22" combines key learnings from 2021 and outlook for 2022 from 800 container logistics players globally including shipping lines, container traders, freight forwarding companies, NVOCCs, shippers and procurement companies.
Read morePublished October 29, 2021 — It is with great pride that we learnt from our colleagues in Genoa that they have officially been nominated as IATA agents.
Read morePublished October 26, 2021 — As Black Friday and Christmas approach, desperate shippers have been paying up to $2 million for a trans-Pacific chartered flight. In pre-pandemic 2019 peak season, it would cost between $400,000 to $700,000.
Read morePublished October 26, 2021 — The fire, which broke out onboard the "ZIM Kingston" last week, has been extinguished, the carrier said in a press release. On Friday 22 October 2021, the vessel, chartered by ZIM, en route from Pusan to Vancouver, ran into very heavy weather conditions. Dozens of containers fell overboard.
Read morePublished September 27, 2021 — NH Logistics joined our cooperative in 2019 to represent us in Belarus, where we did not have any partner until that time. The company has Dutch owners. Ever since, NH Logistics’ CEO Theodorus Schreurs has been looking forward to meet all of us in Rome, but because of Covid19 we had to postpone the AGM until March 2022. In 2020, the opportunity presented itself for NH Logistics to represent us in Ukraine as well. Besides these two branches, and their HQ in The Netherlands they have offices in 8 other countries which are situated predominantly in the former CIS. In total they have 38 employees.
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