SEKO Logistics targets e-commerce through investment in Hong Kong

SEKO Logistics has added 100,000 square feet of warehousing and fulfilment capacity in Hong Kong as it continues to build an ‘e-commerce gateway’ for retail and high-tech customers targeting China’s online consumer market, which is forecast to see spending exceed $1 trillion in 2017. SEKO’s latest investment in Hong Kong has seen the opening of […]

New Chicago service centre for DHL

DHL has expanded its operations in Chicago with the opening of a new service centre facility which sits just north of Chicago Midway International Airport. The $1.3 million investment was primarily driven by heavy demand and international shipment growth from local businesses trading internationally, e-commerce shipping and major customers based in Illinois. The new 38,000 square foot […]

DHL to spend $137m to cater for booming cross border e-commerce

Deutsche Post DHL Group is to spend $137 million on upgrading US domestic and cross-border e-commerce capabilities, to cater for the market that is expected to be worth $1 trillion by 2020. The $137 million will be spent on expanding fulfilment capabilities with eight new distribution centres and enhancing two existing facilities in Los Angeles […]

Hactl sees Chinese and Asian e-commerce growth

Hong Kong Air Cargo Terminals (Hactl) is expecting 2016 to remain challenging but the growth in Chinese and Asian e-commerce will provide growth, executive director, Vivien Lau tells Air Cargo Week (ACW). Hactl, which celebrated its 40th anniversary in May, has seen more bulk e-commerce shipments for fulfilment centres closer to consumers, something that will […]

YTO Express Airlines set to add freighters by 2018

YTO Express Airlines is set to add at least three widebody freighters to its fleet by 2018 to meet demand for its international expansion plans, according to media reports in China. The China Daily reports the carrier is preparing a bid to expand operations and quotes the airline’s chairman, Yu Weijiao, as saying there is high demand for international […]

Expanding Chinese e-commerce driving growth for Hacis

With the expansion of China’s middle class, Hong Kong Air Cargo Industry Services (Hacis) has firmly focused on the country’s fast growing e-commerce business, managing director Vivien Lau tells Air Cargo Week. Though the Chinese economic growth has slowed to single digit figures, this has mainly hit general trade but e-commerce seems unaffected, due to […]

Atlas Air strikes air cargo services agreement with Amazon

Atlas Air Worldwide will provide air cargo services to support Amazon’s package deliveries to its customers, which the carrier expects will boost earnings and cash flows over time. The long-term commercial agreements will include the operation of 20 Boeing 767-300 converted freighters for Amazon on a CMI (crew, maintenance and insurance) basis by Atlas Air […]

UPS to double capacity in Ontario

UPS is to double capacity at Ontario International Airport with a new sorting facility and expanding an existing building to process e-commerce and retail packages. The new building will process urgent, UPS Next Day Air packages and will feature automated sorting capabilities and the expanded facility will be retrofitted with automated sorting systems and will […]

Domestic e-commerce offers great opportunities

The domestic e-commerce market in India is booming and offers great opportunities, Jet Airways senior vice president for cargo, Pradeep Kumar tells Air Cargo Week (ACW). Jet, along with the wider industry, has seen flat conditions since 2014 but Kumar expects improvements in the second half of 2016. The weakness of the Indian rupee is […]

DHL buys stakes in French e-commerce firm Relais Colis

Deutsche Post DHL Group has acquired a minority stake in French e-commerce logistics specialist Relais Colis. The German freight intregrator has bought a 27.5 per cent holding and says the move will enhance access for DHL divisions to the French e-commerce market, which is Europe’s third largest. Investment will also support further development of Relais Colis […]

SF Airlines receives first Boeing freighter conversion

Boeing and SF Airlines have celebrated the delivery of the airline’s first 767-300 Boeing Converted Freighter (BCF), which is also the first owned by an airline in China. The delivery took place at Boeing supplier ST Aerospace Services in Singapore, where the conversion work was performed. It is the first of five 767BCFs the airline will […]

Amazon to launch own air service, reports claim

Amazon.com is negotiating to lease 20 Boeing 767 Freighter aircraft to use as part of a US domestic air service, according to reports in the US. Media outlets claim that the online retail giant wants to build its own cargo operations to avoid delays from other carriers, which reports claim if feel have struggled to keep up […]

China Postal Airlines orders 10 Next Generation 737 Converted Freighters

China Postal Airlines has ordered 10 Next Generation Boeing 737 Converted Freighters (BCF) pending the programme launch. Boeing says the 737-800 is the first Next Generation 737 offered for conversion, and China Postal Airlines joined fellow Chinese carrier, YTO Airlines as the BCF launch customer. China Postal Airlines has also ordered seven 757-200s to convert […]

Hacis opens new depot to cash in on e-commerce

Hong Kong Air Cargo Industry Services (Hacis) has opened a new depot directly targeting e-commerce business – its seventh inland cargo depot in mainland China. The Hacis Nansha depot, in southern Guangzhou, will become the latest destination for Hacis SuperLink China Direct. This provides express road feeder service for both general cargo and cross-border e-commerce […]

Amazon to build facility in Rickenbacker

Online retail giant Amazon has announced plans to build a one-million-square-foot fulfillment center in the Rickenbacker Global Logistics Park, on the doorstep of Rickenbacker International Airport. This gives a boost to Rickenbacker Inland Port’s growing reputation as a prime location for businesses to move goods through the US and around the world. Rickenbacker airport continues […]

TIACA chief upbeat on future of airfreight industry

E-commerce presents the biggest opportunity for the air cargo industry to exploit and boost volumes, according to International Air Cargo Association (TIACA) secretary general Doug Brittin (pictured above). Speaking to Air Cargo Week at the Air Cargo Americas conference and exhibition in Miami from 4-6 November, Brittin says continued growth of the e-commerce sector particularly […]