With 225 tonnes, Beaujolais Nouveau is big in Japan
ECS Group subsidiary Aero Cargo France joined forces with DHL Aviation and Nippon Express to fly 225 tonnes of Beaujolais Nouveau to Japan. The partners starting working together on the project earlier in the year with a contract signed in July and the first development in September. To move the wine from Paris Charles de […]
MAB Kargo launches halal logistics service
MAB Kargo has launched its halal logistics service after receiving the MS2400-Halal Certification from JAKIM on 1 May. The launch was held at the Malaysia Airlines Academy in Kelana Jaya with YB Datuk Seri Dr Mujahid bin Yusof, minister in the prime minister’s department in attendance. To commemorate the launch, MAB Kargo signed an agreement […]
Nippon Express’ SE Asia road service just got a whole lot easier
Nittsu Logistics (Thailand), a local subsidiary of Nippon Express, has obtained 12 Greater Mekong Sub-region (GMS) road transport permits that will smooth cross-border shipping between the six GMS countries. Nittsu Logistics obtained the GMS permits – valid from 1 June – from Thailand’s Ministry of Transport for transport among the six GMS countries, including: Thailand, […]
Brussels Airport’s slot booking app gains eight new members
Brussels Airport’s cloud based data sharing platform, BRUcloud has had a successful first two months with eight more companies using the application in their live operations. The slot booking app eliminates the problem of waiting and idle times at ground handling facilities by coordinating the match between supply and demand of time slots, streamlining the […]
Nippon Express boosted by strong air cargo demand
Strong air cargo demand is boosting Nippon Express, which is set to post a 20 per cent rise in pre-tax profit to more than 16 billion yen ($142 million) in the April to June quarter, according to reports in Japan. The Nikkie Asian Review reports sales at the freight forwarder climbed five per cent to […]
Volga-Dnepr moves 197t of auto parts to the USA for Nippon Express
Volga-Dnepr Airlines was on hand to help Nippon Express when it urgently needed to move 197 tonnes of sensitive automotive machinery from Japan to the USA. Hanoi-based load planning experts were on hand to assesse the cargo and prepare the most efficient plan for its delivery from Tokyo to San Francisco, with the outsize shipments […]
DHL Global Forwarding retains place as top forwarder for volumes
DHL Global Forwarding has retained its place as the top freight forwarder in terms of volumes in 2016, according to the latest Armstrong & Associates (A&A) Top 25 Global Forwarders List. A&A says that total airfreight volumes in 2016 across freight forwarders in the top 25 increased by 5.6 per cent on 2015 to 14.5 […]
WorldACD: May another disappointing month
May was another “disappointment” and volumes grew year-on-year (YoY) by 0.5 per cent, according to a latest report by industry analyst WorldACD. WorldACD says North America fell back by four per cent, whereas MESA grew by the same percentage. Yield in US dollars dropped by 1.9 per cent compared to April. In the year-to-date, Europe […]
Top freight forwarders losing ground, WorldACD reports
Air cargo market data analyst WorldACD says the top 20 freight forwarders saw their worldwide market share decline from 44.5 per cent to 43 per cent in 2015 – based on revenue, measured in US dollars. The Amsterdam firm bases figures on the inputs of more than 60 (mostly large) airlines, who provide their full worldwide air waybill […]
