Alliance to ship vaccines 
The global airline alliance Skyteam Cargo has launched "V Excellence", which covers the transport of Covid-19 shipments moved under the members' product family "customised vaccines", offering priority handling, and "specialised pharma", the solution... plus
Distributing vaccines in East Malaysia
In an effort to combat the Covid-19 pandemic with the vaccines, Utama Multimodal Logistics (UML), a Malaysian cold chain logistics services company focused on transporting pharmaceuticals, has chosen Teleport, the logistics venture of Air Asia Digital, to deliver vaccines... plus
BDI at record high
The Baltic Dry Index (BDI), an index of the international dry cargo freight market, stood at 2,105 points on 17 March. The BDI thus reached its highest value since 4 September 2019, when it scored 2,518 points, the record in almost nine years.By size, the panamax index, covering... plus
1,000 flat cars for intermodal network
Intermodal operator Trans Synergy has ordered 1,000 large-capacity container flat cars from Russian freight car manufacturer UWC. The rolling stock will be delivered in 2021. This is the companies' second deal: 360 similar container flat cars were delivered to Trans Synergy last... plus
MOL banks on hybrid bonds
Japanese shipping company MOL has submitted an amended version of the shelf-registration statement regarding the issuance of publicly offered hybrid corporate bonds (no collateral and subordinated corporate bonds) to the director-general of the Kanto Local Finance Bureau.In... plus
Air Tanzania finally to serve Southern China
Despite the difficult health situation worldwide, East African state carrier Air Tanzania plans to launch its service to Guangzhou in southern China tomorrow, 20 March 2021. It was originally scheduled to begin last September. The weekly outbound B787-8 flight will operate on... plus
Four seafarers rescued
Four Indian seafarers who spent two years stranded on a ship in Mumbai (India) in horrific conditions have finally gone home, thanks to help from Sailors’ Society. As they stopped receiving their salaries three months ago, the men were not given shore passes or signed... plus
Delivering vital vaccines from India to Egypt
Etihad Cargo, the cargo and logistics arm of Etihad Aviation Group, and global supply chain company EFL (Expolanka Freight) have carried a vital consignment of vaccines from India, the world's largest manufacturer of vaccines according to WHO, to Egypt. Leveraging Etihad... plus
KWE's new facility learns how to fly
The Malaysian affiliate of Japanese Kintetsu World Express (KWE) has started operations at the new warehouse in the Free Commercial Zone (FCZ) of Penang Airport, Malaysia. This follows a new warehouse which opened 3 km from Shanghai Pudong Airport in August 2020. Penang is... plus
Valenciaport started well in 2021
A good start for Valenciaport in January and February this year: The port handled 13,5 million t of goods and more than 917,000 teu, an increase of 5.89% and 3.53%, respectively, compared to the same period in 2020. The increase in traffic contrasts with the number of ships... plus