Cargo security, shifting regulations, and emerging tech take centre stage

Cargo security, shifting global regulations and its impact on trade, and emerging tech to benefit forwarding are to take centre stage at AirCargo 2024 when it takes place in just over two weeks, from 11-13th February. Almost 800 delegates and 85 exhibitors from across the international air cargo community have signed up to attend what […]

cargo.one rolls out Auto Assigned AWBs with Lufthansa Cargo as launch partner

Booking air cargo is even easier than booking a passenger flight thanks to a joint innovation between Lufthansa Cargo and cargo.one. For decades, the progression of an air cargo booking has relied upon the manual allocation of an AWB number – a process designed to reflect the paperwork of the past. If a freight forwarder […]

IATA: Air cargo outperforms expectations in 2016

Freight volumes outperformed forecasts in 2016 with 3.8 per cent growth helped by strong recovery in the second half of the year, the International Air Transport Association (IATA) says. Global airfreight volumes had a weak start to the year but picked up in the second half with a strong peak season, increased shipments of silicon […]

Adapt, change and embrace technology

Technology is the key for the air cargo industry to grow in the view of the International Air Cargo Association’s (TIACA) chairman Sanjiv Edward (pictured). Speaking to Air Cargo Week at the Air Cargo Americas conference in Miami from 4-6 November, which marked nearly six months since he took on the role, he says: “I […]

CEVA Logistics opens Brazil headquarters

CEVA Logistics has opened a new headquarters for South America in Sao Paulo (Brazil) and launched a fourth Centre of Logistics Excellence – joining Jacksonville (US), Singapore and Ashby de la Zouch (UK). The new headquarters are located in the Thera Corporate office complex in the Vila Olimpia region of São Paulo, and CEVA says […]