Reducing delivery time from 36 to three months 
Since many school districts are looking for ways to deliver devices to children to assist with e-learning, Alaska Air Cargo and its network recently moved 12,000+ iPads and cases from Boston to Seattle that will go to Seattle Public Schools (SPS) students. Last year, SPS... more
Bringing Japan and the USA together
The Californian urban drone logistics platform Matternet is expanding operations to Asia through a new business partnership with Japan Airlines (JAL). The partnership is to deploy the Matternet M2 drone system in Tokyo metropolitan government's new "drone logistics... more
Biggest cargo carrier back in Africa
Releasing its annual report for the fiscal year ending on 31 March 2020, Qatar Airways says it transported 1,493 million t of cargo, 2.8% more than in the twelve months before. This was in part due to the fact that the cargo carrier transported significant amounts of relief... more
Eastern and Globalx - but all USA
Global Crossing Airlines ("Globalx") has signed a letter of intent with two affiliates of Singapore-based technology, defence, and engineering group ST Engineering to convert five A321 passenger aircraft into freighters. Under the deal with their subsidiary ST... more
Turkish Cargo integrating its virtual workforce
Turkish Cargo is continuing its journey to the future by integrating robotic process automation into its business processes that can minimise errors. In an initial phase the robots Alpha, Bravo, Charlie and Delta will go live. Bravo will be in charge of spot rate approvals,... more
Guaranteeing long term Asia–Europe capacities
Geodis has increased its investment in its own network to more than EUR 70 million, and has confirmed a two-way schedule of flights from Shanghai PVG to Amsterdam and back. This will run through to early 2021 and guarantee its customers regular and reliable services.The global... more
Emirates' permanent humanitarian commitment
Nabil Sultan (left), Emirates’ divisional senior vice-president of cargo, and Giuseppe Saba, CEO of International Humanitarian City (IHC), one of the world’s largest hubs for humanitarian aid, have signed an MoU to cooperate on humanitarian logistics and crisis relief... more
Breaking records on Indian routes
IAG Cargo recently flew more than 50 t of cargo on a single Boeing B777-300ER flight from Mumbai to London – a company record from India. The product mix included perishables, pharmaceuticals and courier consignments, with a large amount of engineering goods, destined for Europe... more
CIIE-themed B777-300 congratulates Beijing Daxing
On the first anniversary of its official opening, Beijing Daxing airport is welcoming today, 25 September 2020, an unusual aircraft flying for China Eastern Airlines (CEA), member of Skyteam Cargo through China Cargo Airlines. The special-themed B777-300 was jointly launched... more
Remote pharma re-certfication of SAS Cargo
SAS Cargo has completed the Iata CEIV Pharma re-certification. It was one of the first in the industry to perform a full audit of all its pharma processes remotely. The emergence of Covid-19 and its related worldwide travel restrictions, combined with the continuous need to... more