Cargolux Airlines International has been selected among the Best Freighter Operator finalists at this year's Air Cargo News awards. The winners will be revealed on April 24 at an event at the Runnymede on Thames Hotel, near Heathrow Airport in the UK.

The Luxembourg Centre for Logistics & Supply Chain Management is holding its annual eXplore conference on March 10. Topics on the agenda include supply chain transparency, AI innovation and policy, deep learning and forecasting, and the digitalisation of operations.

LaSalle Investment Management’s Encore+ European real estate fund has purchased the Bleiswijk Urban Logistics Center from ULP Bleiswijk B for an undisclosed amount. The centre, located north of Rotterdam, comprises 60,000 square metres and is currently let to a number of tenants.

Cargolux has significantly reduced its flight operations to and from China and Taiwan due to the coronavirus outbreak. The move affects 23 weekly flights to China and four to Taiwan.

Lufthansa, Air Canada, British Airways have joined the three US majors in suspending or rescheduling flights to mainland China due to the coronavirus outbreak. The immediate impact of the suspensions is on belly-freight services on passenger flights.

A record 4.4 million passengers passed through Luxembourg Airport in 2019, up 9% from the previous year, including 430,000 passengers during the busiest month, July. Operating company LuxAirport says the growth was down in part to the launch of new routes, including services to Alam in Egypt, Budapest, Edinburgh, Split and Stockholm. Luxair has already announced new routes to Montpellier and Nantes in France and to Brindisi and Florence in Italy starting this year.

National airline Luxair and its package tourism business LuxairTours saw a 0.73% increase in passenger numbers last year to 2,148,098, compared with an increase of nearly 10% the previous year for the group, which accounts for around half the flights at Luxembourg airport. The volume of freight handled by LuxairCargo declined by 6.6% from 956,938 to 893,090 tonnes, after what Luxair says were exceptional years in 2017 and 2018.

LKW Walter, Stena Line, the Port of Kiel and CFL Multimodal have launched a new intermodal goods transportation service connecting Bettembourg-Dudelange with Kiel on Germany's Baltic coast, offering three round trips per week for cranable trailers and containers. The service, which will connect existing train routes with ferry lines, will enable cargo from up to 10,000 trucks to be transferred to rail, saving around 11,000 tonnes of carbon emissions a year.

The Port of Hamburg has completed the first phase of its Elbe widening initiative to enable vessels of a combined length of up to 98 metres to pass. The next stage of the project for widening the 3km section is expected to be completed by mid-2020.

The HAROPA ports grouping of Le Havre, Rouen and Paris handled 90m tonnes of traffic in 2019, down 5% on 2018. The decline was due to lower volumes of crude oil, refined products and coal.

Hapag-Lloyd is trialling a B20 fuel – a combination of low-sulphur fuel oil and bio-diesel based on cooking oil – on its Montreal Express vessel out of Rotterdam for Canada. The company says B20 has a low sulphur content and produces lower CO2 emissions.