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Smart business: Hong Kong airport and Alibaba building a world class hub
Hong Kong International Airport (HKIA) and e-commerce giant Alibaba have expressed their commitment to work closely on a Smart Logistics Hub at the world’s largest cargo gateway.In June this year, a joint venture led by Cainiao Network, the logistics arm of Alibaba Group, was awarded the right to develop and ...
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Amazon Air predicted to increasingly hit FedEx/UPS revenues
A report from investment bank Morgan Stanley has warned that the market is underestimating the risk that Amazon's air network poses to UPS and FedEx.The report suggests that Amazon's network is already having an impact on the two integrator's air volumes, with more erosion expected as services are expanded further.It ...
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Cunningham to retire from FedEx Express top job
FedEx Express president and chief executive David Cunningham will retire from the role on December 31.Raj Subramaniam, currently executive vice president, chief marketing and communications officer of FedEx Corporation, will succeed Cunningham.Cunningham began his FedEx career in 1982 in operations at the FedEx Express World Hub in Memphis, Tenn.Over his ...
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First ship and then shop: the future of home delivery
Predictive algorithms will allow an Amazon or Alibaba to forecast what an online consumer wants to buy and so revolutionise last mile logistics.The consumer-spend data accumulated by the global e-tailers means that buying a flat screen TV online will see a further purchase suggestion, for example a wall bracket to ...
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Canadian e-commerce boom helps fuel direct Vancouver freighter call
Canada’s rising tide of e-commerce was a key factor in the launch of a direct DHL Express flight into Vancouver from the integrator’s US hub in Cincinnati.The direct Boeing 757 freighter flight replaces a Boeing 767F which operated a Cincinnati-Seattle-Vancouver rotation and now terminates at the US west coast airport.Andrew ...
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Swissport becomes the first air cargo handler in Canada with CEIV Pharma
Swissport has added Montreal’s Pierre Elliot Trudeau airport to its network of CEIV Pharma certified cargo warehouses, the first air cargo handler to do so in Canada.The CEIV Pharma standards guarantee airfreight customers highest quality and temperature control standards for the transport of sensitive pharmaceutical products.“We are very pleased to ...
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Liege targets e-commerce as Belgium and Alibaba sign development agreement
The Belgian government has signed a deal with e-commerce giant Alibaba to develop a trade platform in the European country with logistics infrastructure to be developed at Liege Airport.The agreement will see Belgium and Alibaba promote inclusive trade under the Electronic World Trade Platform (eWTP) initiative, which is designed to ...
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Azul and Correios' e-commerce joint venture gains antitrust approval in Brazil
Brazil's postal service Correios and local passenger airline Azul have gained antitrust approval for their joint venture to create a logistics platform serving Brazil's e-commerce sector.The December 2017 Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between the carrier's Azul Cargo Express unit and Correios to create a logistics company has been cleared "without ...
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Volga-Dnepr cuts ocean transport time with An-124 operation
Volga-Dnepr Airlines (VDA) and forwarder Kintetsu World Express France (KWE) have transported an 11,000 horsepower Alstom motorized pump from Paris-Vatry to Damman.The 40-ton pump, measuring 651x274x311cm, was transported onboard one of Volga-Dnepr’s An-124-100 ramp aircraft seven days after the initial charter request was received.The motorized pump will be used as ...
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DHL/Euromonitor identify last mile challenges for e-commerce
Increasing urbanisation is making the last mile of delivery "more complex and critical" for e-commerce companies, according to new a new study by DHL and market research company Euromonitor.Online retailers and their logistics partners are being challenged to embrace “bold new approaches in order to survive and compete”.E-commerce last mile ...
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Panalpina targets growth in Kenya as it expands Nairobi cold storage
Panalpina has doubled its cold storage space at Nairobi’s Jomo Kenyatta International Airport as it looks to grow perishable volumes from Kenya.The facility has been expanded by 1,500 sq m and offers Jomo Kenyatta International Airport's only dedicated loading bays for skidded or palletised cargo and with separate cold rooms ...
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DHL to ramp up technology deployment in North America to meet the need for speed
DHL Supply Chain will invest $300m in deploying new technology and transportation control towers in 350 of its 430 North American facilities as it looks to improve productivity.The logistics giant said that deployment of the technologies, such as robotics, augmented reality, robotics process automation, IoT and DHL’s proprietary end-to-end visibility ...
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FedEx launches 4x week Singapore – Sydney service
FedEx Express (FedEx) has launched a new dedicated four times a week service between Sydney, Australia, and Singapore.The company says new flight is designed to meet customer demand for increased capacity, particularly for heavyweight shipments. Customers in Singapore and Australia will benefit from the increased capacity and reliability to transport ...
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Global trade will continue to grow, but at slower pace
The latest DHL Global Trade Barometer (GTB) predicts that global trade will continue to grow over the next three months but more slowly, especially in the UK which is at stagnation level.The barometer, which looks at seven major trading countries representing 75% of global trade, indicates that India will continue ...
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Big business prepares for US-China trade tariff battle
Big business is preparing for the impact of the escalating US-China trade tariff battle, but small and medium enterprises may find it harder to recoup the additional costs generated.Greg Hewitt, chief executive for DHL Express US, believes that there is still a “big question mark” over the longer term impact ...
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AirBridgeCargo offers specialist care to cattle
Two hundred breeding cattle benefited from AirBridgeCargo’s specialist ‘abc Care’ services when they were flown from Amsterdam to Yuzhno Sakhalinsk in Russia for Intradco Global.The heifers, each weighing some 500kgs, were kept in a carefully maintained temperature environment, with every stage of the transportation monitored and controlled by the airline’s ...
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DHL Express adds delivery feature as US peak season volumes surge
DHL Express has introduced a new service feature in time for the record holiday season that helps customers and future shipping recipients tailor their delivery options ahead of time for incoming deliveries.The roll-out of the On-Demand Delivery service across DHL's global network comes as the parcel and e-commerce giant is ...
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SEKO and ShipStation join forces to help e-commerce retailers
SEKO Logistics is partnering with ShipStation to help its e-commerce merchants expand in new cross-border markets.ShipStation, one of the world’s leading web-based shipping solutions, helps e-commerce retailers import, organise, process and ship their orders quickly and easily from any web browser.It features the most integration partners of any e-commerce web-based ...
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Sales binges provide opportunities for airfreight
This past extended weekend’s numerous sales events appear to have been the biggest ever, if reports from retail giant Amazon are anything to go by.The likes of Black Friday and Cyber Monday, which represent a spike in business for an e-tail giant such as Amazon, also represent significant opportunities for ...
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va-Q-tec expands into Singapore
Temperature-controlled shipping container specialist va-Q-tec has further added to its presence in Southeast Asia with the launch of a new business in Singapore.Amongst other product lines, Va-Q-tec offers thermal insulation and airfreight containers designed for pharmaceutical shipping.It also has subsidiaries already in South Korea and Japan and, the company said, ...