Pharma, perishables and e-commerce help Hactl soar
Hong Kong’s (HK) air cargo market has been flying high this year and the biggest cargo handler Hong Kong Air Cargo Terminals Ltd (Hactl) has benefitted from the strong growth, writes Justin Burns. From January to June year-on-year tonnage was up 16.6 per cent to 860,242 tonnes and Hactl has outperformed the market every month […]
Tonnage growing strongly at DFW with more to come
Dallas Fort Worth International Airport’s (DFW) strategy of positioning the hub as a gateway between Latin America (LATAM) and Asia is proving fruitful. Through June 2017, DFW handled more than 435,900 tonnes, a rise of 12 per cent on the same period last year, which has put it on track to surpass the 829,800 tonnes […]
HAE to make investments in technology
Technology is the main area of the business that HAE will continue to make investments in and is the central focus. HAE UK & Ireland director, John Ward says staff are already working on using its self-developed web portal, which will be expanded to integrate with airline partners to give customers as many options as […]
2017 turning into a stellar year for Air Logistics
Air Logistics Group’s director in the UK, Chris O’Donnell (pictured below) says in 2017 it has seen a surge in business like many others in the cargo field and it has been an “exceptional” year to date. He feels this is partly due to the confirmation of Brexit and the appointment of Donald Trump as […]
Amazon founder Bezos to be inducted into Logistics Hall of Fame
Amazon founder Jeff Bezos is to be inducted into the Logistics Hall of Fame for his company’s role in developing e-commerce logistics. The Logistics Hall of Fame is based in Germany and says he has been honoured as a “revolutioniser of e-commerce and logistics”. Bezos will be officially inducted in a ceremony at the annual […]
New $6.2m Dallas Metroplex facility opened by DHL
DHL has opened a new $6.2 million 50,000 square foot facility in the East Dallas area – providing international shipments ranging from envelopes and small parcels to palletised and containerized freight. The express firm says the company’s second in Carrollton, Dallas, reflects the growth in shipments from businesses in the vicinity that trade internationally as […]
Panalpina seeing fresh African perishable trends
Panalpina is well positioned to grow its airfreight perishable volumes from Kenya, but there are some new trends emerging and challenges ahead. In May, it said it would acquire Kenyan forwarder Air Connection, a specialist in the export of flowers and vegetables. This follows the buy-out last year of Airflo in Kenya and launch of […]
Perspex South Africa partners with Tigers
Perspex South Africa has joined forces with Tigers SA to provide customers with enhanced service delivery. The Perspex SA Gauteng, South Africa branch has agreed to partner with the logistics and transportation company for all its warehousing and distribution needs. Perspex South Africa provides cast acrylic products, as well as extruded acrylics, styrenics, polycarbonate, aluminium […]
DHL eCommerce opens new distribution centre in Delhi
DHL eCommerce has opened a new distribution centre in Delhi to create opportunities for cross border e-commerce, as part of Deutsche Post DHL Group’s plan to invest in €250 million in India by 2020. The Delhi distribution centre forms a vital component to enable end-to-end logistics for e-commerce, allowing e-tailers to reach out to customers […]
Strong first half for C.H. Robinson’s airfreight division
US freight forwarder C.H. Robinson’s airfreight division has performed strongly in 2017 with double-digit growth in tonnage, transactions, and revenue. This was shown in its quarter two (Q2) results when revenue for airfreight forwarding increased 28.3 per cent to $25.8 million, as figures were boosted by the inclusion of APC Logistics, which it acquired last […]
Cargo grows 8.7% in the first half of 2017 at Schiphol
Schiphol Cargo is focusing on pharma and e-commerce as volumes grew 8.7 per cent in the first half of 2017 to 866,713 tonnes. Amsterdam Airport Schiphol, which is Europe’s third busiest cargo hub, welcomed an additional 153 freighter flights in the period, and handled 148,765 tonnes of cargo in June alone, a 9.8 per cent […]
Community approach and cargo initiatives paying off at Schiphol
E-commerce, pharmaceuticals and perishables helped propel Amsterdam Airport Schiphol to year-on-year (YOY) tonnage of 8.5 per cent in the first five months of 2017. In May alone, there was a YOY uplift of 12.3 per cent and head of cargo, Jonas van Stekelenburg (pictured below) says the gateway is happy with the progress as various […]
KLM Cargo launches new sorting system at Schiphol
KLM Cargo has officially launched a new sorting system that can handle more than 2,000 items per hour at Amsterdam Airport Schiphol. Air France and KLM are the first airlines in the world to make use of this kind of sorting system, and it has already been put to good use at Paris Charles de […]
Amazon’s Prime Day set to be biggest yet as its aircraft fly
Amazon’s Prime Day is set to be biggest in its history for sales, the e-commerce giant announced yesterday as its fleet of Prime Air aircraft took to the skies. The annual event took place for 30 hours from Monday, 10 July and is one of the biggest online retail days in the US shopping calendar. […]
WorldACD: fairy tale year for air cargo continues
The fairy tale continued in May for the air cargo industry, according to the latest figures monthly report by WorldACD Market Data. The analyst says in May showed a “formidable” year-over-year (YoY) increase in chargeable weight of 12.8 per cent (13.8 per cent in DTK’s), coupled with a YoY yield rise of five per cent in […]
New agreements set to boost Cargolux into the future
The first six months of 2017 have been quite something at Cargolux Airlines International as it penned two significant agreements and looks to expand its business. In May, the carrier signed a strategic operational partnership with Emirates SkyCargo and last month took a 25 per cent stake in new freighter carrier Henan Cargo Airlines to […]
Strong business at Qantas Freight driven by Asia and the US
Asia and the US are the most buoyant trade lanes for Qantas Freight and the main focus for the Australian carrier. Qantas Freight executive manager, Alison Webster says both are in high demand across its freighter and belly network, while services between Sydney and Auckland are also very strong. Domestically, Webster says the busiest lanes […]
Cargolux expands services between China and the US
Cargolux Airlines has added Atlanta in the US to its destinations served from its Zhengzhou (CGO) hub in China. The North American city becomes the second destination, after Chicago, to receive direct connections to and from Cargolux’s Chinese hub. The service from CGO to Atlanta, in combination with Chicago, on its flight CV9765 that originates […]
Innovation improving in China but more needs to be done
China’s central government has done well in adopting the needed policy and legislative framework to enable air cargo but some areas still need to be tackled although innovation by companies is seeing the sector power ahead. Beijing has ratified the relevant international conventions needed to enable electronic air waybill (eAWB) and support development of the […]
DSV to build new warehouse in the Netherlands to meet e-commerce demand
Danish freight forwarder DSV is to expand its warehousing facilities in the Netherlands to meet the growing demand for e-commerce business. DSV recently acquired an additional 140,000 square metres of land adjacent to its facilities in Venlo, and the lot is to be developed with a further 83,000 square metre of warehousing. The new facility […]
MASkargo launches new express freighter service
MAB Kargo Sdn Bhd (MASkargo) launched a new express freighter service from Kuala Lumpur to Kota Kinabalu and Kuching from today (6 June) – to meet demand in the growing cross-border e-commerce sector. The new service flies from its home base at Kuala Lumpur International Airport (KLIA) to the two cities in East Malaysia, on the island […]
E-commerce drives UPS’ planned new $180m Arizona facility
UPS has announced plans for a new $180 million package processing hub in Goodyear – Arizona – a rapidly growing commercial and residential community west of Phoenix – to meet demand for e-commerce. The integrator says e-commerce has changed the local landscape as it expands its capability for Saturday ground delivery and pickup service that began […]
UPS and SF Express to set-up a joint venture
UPS and SF Holding – the parent company of SF Express – have revealed plans to establish a joint venture (JV) and collaborate to develop and provide international delivery services initially from China to the US, with expansion plans for other destinations. The two express operators say through this agreement they will leverage their complementary networks, […]
Amazon Prime Air pilots picket at e-commerce giant’s shareholder meeting
Air cargo pilots who fly for Amazon Prime Air picketed outside the e-commerce heavyweight’s annual shareholder meeting in Seattle on 23 May. The 65 picketing pilots (pictured above) said they wanted to flag up the intensifying challenges at their airlines and potential risks for Amazon’s growing logistics operations as there is a “looming” pilot shortage, which […]
E-commerce, technology and pharma focus for Hactl
2017 has to date been a strong year for Hong Kong Air Cargo Terminals Limited (Hactl) as freight flies through Hong Kong and it is expanding services to meet rising demand. This follows from a record-breaking 12 months last year when Hactl handled 1.65 million tonnes of cargo, up 1.7 per cent on the previous […]
Alibaba looks to grow e-commerce in Pakistan
Alibaba has signed of a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the Trade Development Authority of Pakistan (TDAP) to grow the e-commerce sector in Pakistan, which could give the country’s airfreight sector a boost. Executive chairman, Jack Ma and Pakistan PM Nawaz Sharif penned the MoU during PM Sharif’s visit to the Alibaba Headquarters in Hangzhou, China this week. Under […]
Cargo and logistics high up KLIA Aeropolis development
Malaysia Airports Holdings Berhad is growing air cargo and logistic facilities at Kuala International Airport where all four of the major integrators and 20 of the world’s top 25 freight forwarders are active. The future vision is to develop KLIA Aeropolis – including growing infrastructure for cargo and logistics. KLIA Aeropolis is an airport city development of over 9,000 acres, extending its commercial reach […]
MAB Kargo tonnage grows in Q1 but it suspends Chongqing freighter
MAB Kargo chief executive officer, Ahmad Luqman Mohd Azmi (pictured below) says business has been good and riding on the momentum of the fourth quarter (Q4) of 2016 and in Q1 tonnage was up five per cent on Q1 in 2016. “The restructuring was done back in 2015. Our operations has since been stabilised and […]
E-commerce and key Asian markets fuel Cathay surge in April
Cathay Pacific Airways and Cathay Dragon carried 163,473 tonnes of cargo and mail in April between them – an increase of 10.7 per cent on the same month in 2016 with e-commerce and key Asian markets driving the surge. In April, the cargo and mail load factor rose by 2.2 percentage points to 65.7 per cent […]
Virgin aims to capitalise on pharma and e-commerce growth
As an airline that has grown up on transatlantic routes over more than 30 years, Virgin Atlantic Cargo says it is perfectly placed to capitalise of two of the industry’s fastest-growing trends; e-commerce and pharmaceutical shipments. Virgin now provides some 30 per cent of all capacity on transatlantic routes, the world’s largest pharma trade lane […]
