All Africa Articles – Page 14
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Volga-Dnepr 'racking' its brains to deliver 30 Mercs to Luanda
Volga-Dnepr used a two-tier car racking system for its An-124-100 freighter fleet to deliver 30 Mercedes Benz limousines to Angola for the inauguration of new president, Joao Lourenco.The 90-tonne payload from Leipzig, on a single flight to Luanda, consisted of 25 luxury sedans (list price around £60,000) three police cars ...
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New members for forwarder network
Freight network The WACO System has appointed three new members in Latin America and Africa.Sicarga Panama will cover Panama, Costa Rica, and Nicaragua, Gespros will represent Cameroon; and OMA Logistics will represent Senegal.The new members will be officially welcomed during WACO's Extraordinary General Meeting in Macau, China on 23-25 October.Sicarga ...
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Ethiopian extends its reach with Azul codeshare
Ethiopian Airlines has entered into a codeshare agreement with and Azul Brazilian Airlines.Ethiopian, Africa’s largest airline group, will initially share its code on Azul flights from São Paulo (Guarulhos) to Belo Horizonte, Curitiba, Goiania, Porto Alegre, Cuiabá, Foz do Iguaçu and Florianopolis.Ethiopian currently flies to more than 100 international passenger ...
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Wham bam, thank you yam
Ghana's peak season for yam exports from Africa to the US is now in full swing.Logistics airline partner Air France-KLM Martinair Cargo was able to load 106 tonnes this week in its Boeing 777 freighter from Accra to New York via its Paris CDG hub.Yams are a type of dry ...
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Forwarder Panalpina confirms completion of Air Connection deal
Freight forwarder Panalpina has confirmed it has completed the acquisition on Kenyan perishables forwarder Air Connection.The Switzerland-based freight forwarder first announced the deal in May but had been waiting for approval from the Competition Authority of Kenya, which, as reported by Air Cargo News, it received earlier this week.Conditions are ...
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Takeover of Kenyan perishables forwarders to go ahead, with conditions
Kenya’s competition watchdog has approved “with conditions” the takeover of two specialist perishables forwarders in the African country by European logistics giants Kuehne+Nagel (K+N) and Panalpina.The Competition Authority of Kenya has approved the acquisition of Air Connection by Panalpina Airflo Ltd, Panalpina Airflo BV and Panalpina Kenya Ltd, but ordered ...
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Ethiopia's airline and airports merge to form single aviation group
Ethiopian Airlines Group has merged with Ethiopian Airports Enterprise (EAE) to form the African country's new Aviation Holding Group.The consolidation, which follows regulation approved by Ethiopia's Council of Ministers on July 14 this year, sees the formation of a new holding group comprising EAE, Passenger Airline, Cargo Airline & Logistics ...
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Cargolux expands African network on machinery and high-tech demand
Cargolux is adding two new destinations to its Africa network as it looks to capitalise on demand for mining equipment and high-tech consumer goods.The Luxembourg-based airline said it would add a new call to Douala in Cameroon on October 3 and Lubumbashi in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) on ...
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AMI adds imports to South Africa service
Trade-only airfreight and express wholesaler AMI has launched an express import service to South Africa.Click2ship Express Imports is the counterpart to the click2ship Express Exports launched in the country in 2014.It provides online quotes and bookings for imports from any location in the world. Prices include collection at origin, export ...
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Perspex sees clear advantages from Tigers deal
Logistics and transport company Tigers is to partner with acrylic products maker Perspex SA Gauteng in South Africa for all its warehousing and distribution needs.Perspex South Africa manufactures extruded acrylics, styrenics, polycarbonate, aluminium composite sheeting, polypropylene, polyethylene and extruded polyurethane products.Through the partnership, it aims to will improve its service ...
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K+N expands perishables network with US and Kenyan acquisitions
Kuehne + Nagel (K+N) has expanded its global perishables network with the acquisition of sector specialist forwarders Commodity Forwarders Inc. (CFI) in the US and Trillvane in Kenya.Switzerland-based K+N said that the two acquisitions would add more than 150,000 tons of annual perishables traffic to its network and “further strengthens ...
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Network Airline Mangement renews MD11F deal
Network Airline Management (NAM) has renewed its long-standing freighter deal with Western Global Airlines (WGA) covering Africa-Europe operations.Under the terms of the agreement, WGA will continue to operate up to three MD11Fs on behalf of NAM, with operations based in Liege, Belgium.The aircraft support NAM’s operations with Allied Air of ...
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Armed robber shot dead after failed Johannesburg airport cargo heist
An armed robber was shot dead and another arrested after they held up Swissport security guards in the cargo precinct of Johannesburg’s OR Tambo International Airport on Saturday (July 1) morning, airport management has confirmed.Leigh Gunkel-Keuler, spokesperson for OR Tambo International Airport, said: "At 10.55am a group of armed men ...
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NAM and Astral join forces for Red Cross aid flights to Somaliland
Network Airline Management (NAM) has transported over 57 tonnes of urgent relief goods on behalf of the Canadian Red Cross to a field hospital in Hargeisa, Somaliland.The cargo, mainly IV fluid, was flown from Liege in Belgium to Nairobi on a wet-leased B747-400F operated by Kenya-based carrier Astral Aviation and ...
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Turkish Cargo launches freighter flights to Johannesburg and Madagascar
Turkish Cargo is launching scheduled Airbus A330 freighter flights to Johannesburg in South Africa and Madagascar, off the southeast coast of Africa.South Africa sees the majority of its exports going to European and the Americas. These generally consist of machinery, electronic equipment, chemicals and automotive parts.Madagascar exports a wide range ...
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Ethiopian inaugurates second Addis Ababa cargo terminal
Africa’s largest cargo operator, Ethiopian Airlines, has inaugurated its Cargo Terminal-II facility at home hub Addis AbabaThe ceremony was attended by Ethiopia’s prime minister, Hailemariam Desalegn, transport minister Ahmed Shide and Ethiopian Airlines Group chief executive Tewolde GebreMariam, along with participants from the ICAO Cargo Forum being held in Addis ...
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Freighters World: Astral aiming for the stars
THE air cargo industry is often accused of failing to embrace the latest technologies and as a result loses market share to disruptors –new companies entering a market place and shaking things up.The one problem with this accusation is that it does paint all air cargo companies with the same ...
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RwandAir appoints Network Airline Services in the UK
RwandAir has appointed Network Airline Services as its cargo general sales covering the UK market.The airline offersan Airbus A330 direct to Kigali (KGL) from London Gatwick (LGW) three times a week. From KGL, Rwandair provides connections to 22 destinations throughout Africa.RwandAir marked 2016 with some significant achievements: The airline began ...
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ICAO: Implement Lomé agreement to capitalise on air cargo
The International Civil Aviation Organization has called on African nations to implement the Lomé declaration that aims to ease the flow of goods if they are to benefit from the "tremendously promising growth in air cargo".Speaking at the UN organisation's meeting on air cargo development in Africa, president of the ...
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GLS wins 25 year cargo concession in Liberia
Global Logistics Services Inc. (GLS) has secured a 25-year concession for air cargo operations at Liberia’s sole international airport, Roberts International (ROB).The agreement, passed into law by the country’s legislature, makes GLS the first Liberian company to own an operating concession in the country’s 169-year history.GLS, which currently handles up ...