Positive growth throughout Asia Pacific

For Air Logistics Group (ALG), South East Asia remains a good place to do business. The GSSA has been enjoying bullish growth in the region, explains ALG CEO Stephen Dawkins. He says: “Our performance in South East Asia so far in 2018 has continued to show consistent year-on-year improvements against 2017 which was an exceptional […]

Cambodia is becoming a dedicated follower of fashion

Cambodia’s air cargo sector is driven by sharply rising garment exports, Michael Mackey writes. Signs of Cambodia’s increasingly active air cargo sector come from a third carrier from the country, Lanmei Airlines, appointing Hong Kong’s Asia Airfreight Terminal as its cargo terminal operator. Lanmei launched a new link between Sihanoukville in Cambodia and Hong Kong […]

Infrastructure issues in Myanmar urgently need to be addressed

Myanmar’s fast emerging air cargo industry is gearing up but needs to address severe infrastructure limitations, Michael Mackey reports. The overriding problem for the sector is the sheer lack of hardware – especially at Yangon International Airport, a nodal point for nearly all of Myanmar’s air freight. Yangon is the country’s business capital. “The air […]

Asia Pacific continues to rise as emerging markets open up

The current peak season may be stealing the lime light, but underlying it all has been a solid year for the industry and for one market in particular – SE Asia – air cargo supply chain executives are upbeat on the market’s solid future despite the challenges, Donald Urquhart writes. It is not hard to […]

Panalpina to build new 30,000 sqm warehouse in Singapore

Panalpina is to build a new build-to-suit facility in Singapore, which it says demonstrates its continued commitment to a strong and successful logistics platform in Asia-Pacific. Singapore country head of sales, Matthew Gallagher says: “As we celebrate 40 years of doing business in Singapore, this is Panalpina’s largest ever warehousing investment outside Europe in the company’s history.” […]

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 […]

Tigers opens office in Myanmar and looks to further expand

Asian supply chain firm Tigers is to expand its e-commerce offering in South East Asia with new branch in Yangon and plans for further expansion in Myanmar later in the year. The opening of the new office in Yangon is part of the firm’s ongoing growth programme, supporting customers across South East Asia. The new branch, […]

Fresh cargo markets boost Korean Air’s bottom line

Korean Air’s cargo operations have a strong and beneficial influence on its bottom line as the company grows by developing new markets. Figures show during the fourth quarter of 2016 that freight generated 2,868 billion Won ($83 million) for Korean against 2,284 billion Won in the same period of 2015. Korean Air declined to comment […]

MAB Kargo adds Bangkok freighter service to network

MAB Kargo has expanded its presence in Thailand with the launch of a freighter service to Bangkok Suvarnbhumi International Airport from Kuala Lumpur (KL). This weekly service will be operated with an Airbus A330 Freighter with a capacity of 60 tonnes of payload and has been started to tap into the rising demand for air […]

DHL Express bolsters regional trade with new Changi hub

DHL Express has opened an expanded DHL South Asia Hub within Changi Airfreight Centre (CAC) at Singapore Changi Airport as part of an 85 million euro ($93.5 million) investment. The 24-hour express hub facility spans 23,600 square metres and outfitted with the industry’s first fully automated express parcel sorting and processing system in South Asia. DHL says it will boost […]

DHL starts express service between Phnom Penh and Bangkok

DHL Express has launched a new express freighter service between Phnom Penh and Bangkok, one of its hubs in Asia Pacific. The first operating to and from Phnom Penh, adds to the existing DHL Express flights between its hubs in Bangkok and Singapore, extending the Cambodian capital’s trade ties to more markets globally. Operated by […]

Vietnam Airlines’ cargo up 18.1% in first half of 2016

Vietnam Airlines handled 124,800 tonnes of freight in the first six months of 2016 from January to June 2016 – a surge of 18.1 per cent on last year. The carrier also explains the Vietnamese aviation market grew by a significant 27.2 per cent compared to the same period last year, with a 37 per […]

Strong transhipments help HKIA grow in June

Hong Kong International Airport (HKIA) has seen cargo volumes increase by 5.3 per cent to 368,000 tonnes in June helped by strong growth in transhipments. Transhipments increased by 11 per cent in June, with exports up five per cent and imports two per cent compared to June 2015. HKIA says South East Asia and Mainland […]

New airfreight service from Bangkok to Phnom Penh

K Mile Air has launched an airfreight service between Bangkok and Phnom Penh, according to the online edition of The Phnom Penh Post. The Cambodian newspaper claims according to a spokesman from Cambodia Airports, the Thai carrier will serve to deliver shipments for German integrator DHL. K Mile Air adds to the growing cargo route network into Cambodia, which has […]

DHL Global Forwarding appoints Wu in Cambodia

DHL Global Forwarding has appointed Oliver Wu as country manager for Cambodia, with effect. In his new role, Oliver will report directly to Clement Blanc, managing director of DHL Global Forwarding for Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos. Based in Phnom Penh, Wu will lead and manage DHL Global Forwarding’s business activities in the country, and be responsible […]

Vietnam Airlines and Cambodia Angkor Air to up belly routes

Indochina carriers Vietnam Airlines and Cambodia Angkor Air are to increase the number of domestic and international bellyhold routes they operate. The airlines are to start new and additional connections between Vietnam and Cambodia, as well as further links to and from Laos and Myanmar during 2016. Vietnam Airlines holds a 49 per cent stake in Cambodia Angkor […]

Vietnam set to build three more airports

The Civil Aviation Authority of Vietnam (CAAV) has reportedly submitted plans to the Ministry of Transport to build three airports in the northwestern provinces. Media reports in Vietnam say the total investment shed out will be 9.813 trillion Vietnamese Dong ($440 million), according to reports. The move is likely to boost air cargo capacity and operations […]

ACSV picks Hermes management system for Hanoi

Air Cargo Services of Vietnam (ACSV) has chosen the Hermes air cargo management system to run their warehouse in Hanoi. ACSV chairman, Pham Duc Long says: “The installation of the Hermes cargo management system is evidence of ACSV’s ambitious development plan in the coming year. “The system, with various modern functions, will really revolutionise our cargo […]

SE Asian countries on the up

South East Asian countries have improved their position in the 2015 Agility Emerging Markets Logistics Index, in part because of dynamic air cargo sectors. The Index, now in its sixth year, is an annual data-driven ranking of 45 emerging economies accompanied by a separate survey of nearly 1,000 global logistics and supply chain executives. Of […]

Regional weakness causes Hong Kong fall

Hong Kong International Airport (HKIA) has seen cargo volumes fall by 3.1 per cent to 407,000 tonnes in November, because of weakness in China and South East Asia. The airport says transhipments fell by six per cent year-on-year and imports were down by four per cent. On a rolling 12 months basis, HKIA has seen […]