Virgin Atlantic Cargo to restart flights to Mumbai

Virgin Atlantic will relaunch London Heathrow – Mumbai flights, with the Boeing 787-9 service providing up to 26 tonnes of cargo capacity. The service, which fills the hole left by Jet Airways suspending operations, will commence on 27 October, complementing Virgin’s long-established route between London and Delhi. The Mumbai flights will not only enhance links […]

Saudia Cargo restarts Mumbai and Guangzhou flights

Saudia Cargo has strengthened its presence in China and India by resuming freighter flights to Guangzhou and Mumbai. Weekly freighter services started in April to meet growing demand for cargo operations and stimulate trade movements, in addition to operate five flights a week to Dhaka, Bangladesh and seven a week to Hong Kong. Omar Hariri, […]

Jet Airways suspends flights as funding dries up

Jet Airways has temporarily suspended all flights after the State Bank of India and consortium of lenders were unable to consider its request for interim funding. In a statement, the Indian airline says that as no emergency funding from lenders or any other source was forthcoming, it would not be able to pay for fuel […]

WebCargo acquires Air Freight Bazaar

WebCargo, a Freightos company has acquired Air Freight Bazaar, a regional air cargo rates and sales platform based in Chennai, India. The acquisition combines WebCargo’s advanced air cargo rates, sales and eBooking platform, used by over 1,400 forwarders with Air Freight Bazaar’s market share of 300 regional air forwarders. Air Freight Bazaar customers will receive […]

Envirotainer RAP e2 and RKN e1 comes to Mumbai

Envirotainer has extended its network of stations supporting RKN e1 and RAP e2 e-technology containers to Mumbai, India. Mumbai, the capital of Maharashtra state and India’s most populous city, is the 32nd station in Envirotainer’s network to carry the temperature controlled RAP e2 air cargo container. Suat Toh, head of sales APAC says: “India is […]

Hermes expands teams in India and the UK

Hermes Logistics Technologies (HLT) has expanded its teams in India and the UK as its cargo management system, Hermes 5 (H5) is adopted by ground handlers, airlines and airports. Atul Kumbhare joins the team bringing 20 years industry experience to Hermes’ Indian office in Pune, where he will lead the development team and work with […]

Jet Airways flies record volumes on flight to London

Jet Airways has entered the record books with the highest uplift of cargo by an Indian carrier in a single flight to London. The airline carried 45 tonnes on a flight from Mumbai to London operated by a Boeing 777-300ER, with cargo including perishables, engineering goods, garments, courier, leather goods and consolidated cargo. Jet Airways […]

Hermes updates cargo management at Hyderabad

Hermes Logistics Technologies has welcomed GMR Group to their client portfolio to implement Cargo Management Systems at Hyderabad International Airport. Hermes has signed a five-year contract with GMR Group’s subsidiary GMR Hyderabad International Airport (GHIAL) including an upgrade schedule to ensure the cargo terminal will continue to operate with the most sophisticated Cargo Management Systems […]

Turkish Cargo launches flights to Bangalore

Turkish Cargo is continuing to extend its network with flights to Bangalore, the third largest city in India. The airport serving Karnataka’s state capital has an export capacity of 170,000 tonnes, and Turkish Cargo will be operating an Airbus A330-200 Freighter on the route. Bangalore is known as the Silicon Valley thanks to exports of […]

Volga-Dnepr delivers crankshaft to India

Volga-Dnepr Airlines has organised the delivery of a crankshaft from Mexico to India on a charter flight for DHL Global Forwarding. The 38-ton shipment travelled from Apodaca, Nuevo Leon to Mumbai, and was packed into a seven metre long box along with support equipment required for loading. Within 12 hours of receiving the request, Volga-Dnepr […]

EFDI to distribute GLS Hong Kong’s EzyCargo in India

Global Logistics System (GLS Hong Kong) has picked Electronic Freight Data Interchange (EFDI) to support EzyCargo in India. EFDI will provide sales and marketing functions to promote EzyCargo subscriptions to connect freight forwarders with multiple airlines for digital cargo data exchange. A local service desk will be set up to provide sales and support services […]

SpiceJet to operate cargo flights between Delhi and Kabul

SpiceJet will operate cargo flights between Delhi and Kabul having signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the Afghanistan Chamber of Commerce and Industries (ACCI). The cargo services, operating under the SpiceXpress brand will transport fresh fruits and dry fruits, carpets and other commodities from Kabul to different states of India, subsidised by the Afghan […]

Qatar Airways Cargo flies to Brasilia to fight HIV epidemic

Qatar Airways Cargo flew 100 tonnes of medication from Mumbai to Brasilia on a charter flight for its customer, Hermes Travel and Cargo. The pallets were loaded on a Boeing 777 Freighter in Mumbai, and the life-saving Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP) medications were dispatched to support Brazil’s Ministry of Health’s response to the HIV epidemic. The […]

V-Care Logistics in the swim for young people

Indian freight forwarder V-Care Logistics Services, part of the UK-based Cargo Connections network, have sponsored a youth swimming competition event held at the Nerul Gymkhana Club in Navi Mumbai. The event was for under-16s group to encourage participation in swimming. The sport of swimming is particularly special to the company as Aditya, son of V-Care […]

Emirates SkyCargo to fly aid to flood hit Kerala

Emirates SkyCargo will carry over 175 tons of relief cargo to Kerala, India to help those affected by flooding. The relief goods will be transported on more than a dozen flights to Thiruvananthapuram, the nearest online Emirates station to the areas most affected by the floods. The goods, including lifesaving boats, blankets and dry food […]

IAG Cargo helps fight diphtheria outbreak in Venezuela

Following the outbreak of diphtheria in Venezuela, IAG Cargo has been busy shipping out vaccines to help fight the contagious disease. There have been 1,900 cases detected across 22 states, and in one shipment alone, IAG Cargo moved over 5.3 tonnes of the diphtheria vaccine from India working in partnership with Indian biopharmaceutical company, Biological […]

DPDHL and the UN get Indian airports ready for natural disasters

Deutsche Post DHL Group (DPDHL) and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) are helping Indian airports prepare for natural disasters. Airport operations experts have met at Calicut International Airport in Kozhikode city, Kerala for a five-day training workshop from 6 – 10 August to learn how to make their airports disaster ready, and to become […]

Korean Air expands in India with Delhi freighter flights

Korean Air is helping strengthen relations between India and South Korea with the launch of three weekly freighter flights to Delhi. The airline will operate three Boeing 777 Freighter flights a week on Tuesdays Thursdays and Saturdays departing Seoul’s Incheon International Airport at 11.10PM, making a stop in Hanoi, Vietnam before arriving in Delhi at […]

Indian mango exports prove fruitful for Emirates SkyCargo

Emirates SkyCargo has transported record volumes of mangoes from Mumbai in May and June with growth of more than 50 per cent. Close to 1,130 tonnes of mangoes were uplifted from Mumbai to other destinations around the world using the belly space of passenger aircraft as well as freighters. Since April 2018, over 2,650 tonnes […]

Catch FIATA’s early bird before it flies off

Delegates in the International Federation of Freight Forwarders Associations (FIATA) World Congress in New Delhi in September have until the end of this month to save up to $325 on registration fees. Super Early Bird international full registration costs $625, plus tax, until June 30, rising to $700 until July 31, then $800 until August […]

IAG Cargo delivers vaccines in battle against disease

India’s growing pharmaceutical sector is part of a worldwide effort to stamp out preventable diseases. In April, the world marked the launch of World Immunisation Week, a global public health campaign by the World Health Organization (WHO) with the aim of increasing rates of immunisation and ensuring that every person is protected against vaccine-preventable diseases around […]

Etihad Cargo flies freighters for Year of Zayed aid mission

Etihad Cargo has launched its first humanitarian freighter missions to Kazakhstan and India as part of its Year of the Zayed programme. The specially branded Year of Zayed Boeing 777 Freighter departed Abu Dhabi – first to Almaty in Kazakhstan and then to Hyderabad in India – carrying special provisions to be distributed to those […]

Ukraine Airlines picks ECS as exclusive GSSA for India

Ukraine International Airlines (UIA) has chosen ECS Globe Air Cargo India as its exclusive GSSA in India. ECS Group’s Indian branch office has been supporting UIA throughout the Indian sub-continent following the airline starting flights between Kiev Boryspil Airport and Delhi’s Indira Gandhi International Airport on 1 May. The airline is operating three flights a […]

India’s first online e-Booking platform for air cargo launched

Kale Logistics Solutions is offering a comprehensive suite of IT solutions for the logistics domain. Recently, the company launched a specialised e-Booking platform under the brand RIGEL at WINGS INDIA 2018 at Hyderabad, India (pictured). This One Stop e-Booking Platform is India’s first comprehensive online platform to assist cargo rate discovery and booking procedures for the […]

Air Seychelles picks M&C Aviation to be its GSA for India

Air Seychelles has appointed M&C Aviation as its general sales agent for India, allowing the 1GSA network member to take an active role in the airline’s development in India. M&C, which was founded in 1995 and has 32 bases in 20 countries, was formerly the airline’s cargo sales agent for India and its GSA for […]

AFKLMP adds new routes to its summer schedule

Air France KLM Martinair Cargo (AFKLMP) will operate new routes for the summer providing connections to locations including Taipei, Fortaleza and Seattle. It will provide capacity from both hubs at Paris Charles de Gaulle Airport and Amsterdam Airport Schiphol, where the airline offers 1,115 weekly services to 116 unique destinations around the world. From Paris […]

First air cargo digital corridor between India and Netherlands established

Kale Logistics Solutions has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Cargonaut, an established cargo community service provider based in the Netherlands to create a digital air freight corridor between the two countries that will enhance shipment visibility and optimise flow of cargo data. In the first of its kind, Mumbai airport, India and Schiphol […]

Air Charter Service invests in larger premises in India

The Indian arm of aircraft charter specialist Air Charter Service has moved to new premises in Mumbai in order to accommodate the company’s growth plans in the region. “We now have very strong teams in both our cargo and our passenger divisions, and we have consistently grown in terms of staff, revenue and number of […]

AF-KL Cargo and Jet Airways Cargo strengthen cooperation with MoU

Air France KLM Cargo and Jet Airways Cargo have signed a memorandum of understanding to deepen cooperation and develop products for specific industries such as e-commerce. Under the MoU, the airlines say they seek to deepen cooperation and endeavour to link and leverage their route networks to create and offer expanded high-value cargo services, as […]

AAPA: air cargo demand up 5.8% in October

Preliminary traffic figures for the month of October released today by the Association of Asia Pacific Airlines (AAPA) showed healthy demand growth in the Asia Pacific region. AAPA says reflecting the sustained upturn in global trade for consumer and intermediate goods, Asia Pacific airlines saw international air cargo demand, as measured in freight tonne kilometres […]