The Austrian daily newspaper KURIER reported today about a new rail forwarding company, Grampetcargo Austria GmbH, which should expand activities of Gampet Group (the largest private rail carrier from Southern Europe) to region of Central and Western Europe. In the article there is information about possibilities of cooperation with the Trade Trans Group.

On 24 May 2012 agreement was signed between H.Essers and Trade Trans. H.Essers intends to create new headquarters in Romania for South-East Europe, on a 16ha logistics area. Plans include a total of 30,000m2 of storehouses. This area will be connected directly to the container terminal in Curtici.

H.Essers Company is the largest Belgian freight forwarder and has covered storage space in the extent of 850,000 m2. Furthermore there are 1,500 trucks and 2,500 trailers owned by the company. These vehicles travel 88 million km per year.

Since the beginning of May Trade Trans Log Poland has a new fleet of Mercedes Actros tractors and Schwarzmüller trailers. All vehicles comply with Euro 5 certificate and trailers – XL certificate, which is increasingly required by many customers.

Polish TRADE TRANS has traditionally participated in 17 Fair for Transport and Logistics Trans Russia 2012 that was held on 24-27 April in Moscow.

The company was presented at the joint stand with PKP Cargo Logistics Group.

During the 4 days of the show, company stand was visited by numerous guests from the logistics industry and various sectors of the economy.

Ekol, one of the biggest integrated logistic service providers of Turkey and also on European level invested 4,5 million euro buying 50 Volvo trucks, model FH12. The project for extending the fleet is part of the general integration strategy for the intermodal route on the Arad-Worms-Trieste railway stretch. The company is the sole logistic operator providing services on the railway between Arad and Worms (Germany). With using this railway route Ekol is saving 1250 km of road transport taking into consideration the whole distance on the Turkey – Germany stretch.

In February 2012 PS Trade Trans opened its representative office in Hong Kong by signing a contract for exclusive representation with G & K Asia Invest (HK) Ltd. G & K Asia Invest will represent PS Trade Trans in Hong Kong (headquarter location), in People's Republic of China and in the region of South Asia and the Pacific. It's all about contacts with new customers and to assist in realization of logistics contracts.