"Curiosity of the Day"
"Left-handed" elephants: One in two elephants will turn the tip of its trunk to the left when picking up food. more
Joint initiatives to boost cargo traffic
Vienna airport and Korean Air have signed an agreement to expand their existing partnership. Plans include joint market initiatives targeting freight forwarders and customers and an exchange of industry expertise to enhance services. Korean Air has been operating regular... more
Etihad Airways appoints VP cargo
As vice president cargo, Stanislas Brun will oversee Etihad Cargo's commercial operations including scheduled and charter flights, revenue management and network planning and report to Etihad Airways' COO, Mohammad Al Bulooki. Al Bulooki: "I would like to thank Leonard... more
Safety and innovation
Union Pacific (UP) plans to invest USD 3.4 billion in 2024. An estimated 56% of the capital plan - USD 1.9 billion - will be used for upgrading and replacing infrastructure, such as rail, ties, and ballasts, and USD 0.6 billion for locomotives and equipment. The US class I... more
DHL: a Mid-Atlantic move
DHL recently relocated its Maryland e-commerce hub to a new site in Manassas, Virginia. The new distribution centre spans almost 13,006 sqm and is close to an international airport. Maintaining its focus on its customer base in Virginia and the Mid-Atlantic states, DHL... more
Green light for Stockholm Norvik
The Stockholm Norvik port has achieved comprehensive status within the EU's trans-European transport network (TEN-T), following a recent proposal for an agreement. This change in status is part of the revised TEN-T regulation, which is expected to come into effect in April 2024... more
Kiwis can fly
Air New Zealand and the national economy after the pandemic. Air New Zealand exported 30,000 t of goods by air in the first full calendar year after the end of Covid-19-induced travel restrictions, which were particularly drastic there. A recent study shed light on how important... more
Starlux Airlines enters maindeck cargo business
At the Singapore Airshow, Taiwan's Starlux Airlines placed a firm order for five A350F and three more A330neo aircraft to add to the four already in operation. CEO Glenn Chai explained that the carrier had "continuously nurtured the cargo market since its inception... more
Up to 400 trucks to be shifted to rail
The manufacturer Soprema recently joined forces with Fret SNCF, the railway operator ACPMC and the port of Strasbourg to reactivate an old train line between Strasbourg and Rouen in France. Soprema can now ship its raw materials and finished products by rail on the east-west... more
Real-time booking with integrated data
Wisetech Global and Avianca Cargo have integrated their data to enable freight forwarders to plan, book, confirm and manage shipments in real-time from within Cargowise, a logistics execution platform. As part of the ‘Cargowise carrier connectivity programme’, Cargowise... more