Not so long ago, the orthodoxy was that medium-sized forwarders based in a single country – so-called ‘local heroes’ –…
March 2015
The cost of modal shift
21 / 03 / 2015
MODAL SHIFT to ocean and other surface freight has cost the air cargo industry almost two percentage points of annual…
How air cargo can be green
21 / 03 / 2015
COMPANIES like to boast about what they are doing to combat climate change, but does it influence the way they design…
Columbia excites Canadian exporters
21 / 03 / 2015
THE NATION of Columbia is turning into a growing trade ally with Canada, with companies such as McCain Foods, Red…
SEKO opens shop to e-tail forwarding
21 / 03 / 2015
LIKE mid-sized forwarders, bricks-and-mortar retailers have been the subject of a host of obituaries, whose authors predict a world dominated…
Van de Weg joins Volga-Dnepr Group
21 / 03 / 2015
AIRBRIDGECARGO Airlines (ABC), Russia’s largest cargo carrier, has appointed former key Cargolux executives Robert van de Weg and Peter van de Pas…
New CEO at Cargolux
21 / 03 / 2015
CARGO airline Cargolux has appointed former Kuehne + Nagel management board member Dirk Reich as its new chief executive. He…
Agility’s profits up
21 / 03 / 2015
AGILITY’s overall profits climbed 37 per cent to KD46.2m (US$164.09m) in 2013, despite revenue from its core Global Integrated Logistics…
LH Cargo extends Jan de Rijk contract
21 / 03 / 2015
LUFTHANSA Cargo has extended its road-feeder contract with ground transportation and distribution specialist Jan de Rijk Logistics. The extension is…
IATA cargo boss Des Vertannes stepping down in June
21 / 03 / 2015
DES VERTANNES, head of cargo at IATA, is retiring from his position in June. A universally popular and hard-working professional,…
AEI launches B737-800 conversion
21 / 03 / 2015
CARGO aircraft conversions specialist Aeronautical Engineers Inc (AEI) has formally launched a passenger-to-freighter (12-pallet) and passenger-to-combi (five) programme for the…
DHL Global Forwarding to open Paris cargo warehouse
21 / 03 / 2015
DHL Global Forwarding (GF) has strengthened its presence at Paris-Charles de Gaulle (CDG) airport with the signing of a contract…
DB Schenker: How air cargo can be green
21 / 03 / 2015
COMPANIES like to boast about what they are doing to combat climate change, but does it influence the way they design…
Have you given paper the boot?
21 / 03 / 2015
I HAVE absolutely no idea how many companies out there are totally ignorant of the urgent need to digitise their documents….
Panalpina beats the market in 2013
21 / 03 / 2015
PANALPINA increased its airfreight business by three per cent last year, beating the market’s one per cent growth. It transported…
Jettainer opens new Abu Dhabi office
21 / 03 / 2015
ULD outsource specialist Jettainer, has opened a new office in the Abu Dhabi Airport Business City’s Logistics Park. The company…
K+N air freight volumes edge ahead
21 / 03 / 2015
KUEHNE + NAGEL saw airfreight volumes increase 1.4 per cent in the 2014 first quarter to 285,000 tons, although divisional air cargo turnover…
Swissport management changes
21 / 03 / 2015
SWISSPORT International, a leading provider of ground and cargo services to the aviation industry, has announced that Erich Bodenmann, executive…
CAL starts Greater Moncton service
21 / 03 / 2015
LIÉGE, Belgium-based CAL Cargo Airlines is expanding its reach with a series of B747-200 freighter flights to Greater Moncton, Canada….
GEFCO appoints new sales and marketing director
21 / 03 / 2015
AUTOMOTIVE logistics specialist GEFCO UK has appointed Charlie Weale as its new sales and marketing director. He is charged with…
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