Waiting on West Africans, welcoming East Africans 
Initially scheduled for launch in less than one month (18 June 2020), Air Senegal's service to Geneva has been postponed to 26 October, one day after the also postponed service launch to London STN, scheduled for 26 June. The West African carrier which has already spread its... more
DHL Global Forwarding boosts its leadership team in Africa
DHL Global Forwarding has made some key appointments to its leadership teams in Central and Southern Africa. Veronique Ebenye Epangue will head the team in Cameroon and Alassane Mare, CEO, DHL Global Forwarding, Central Africa will take on the additional responsibility of... more
Hapag-Lloyd holds its course in 2020
Hapag-Lloyd's transport volumes of passed the threshold of 3 million teu in Q1/2020 (3.053 million teu), a 4.8 % increase compared to Q1/2019, freight rates went up by USD 15 per teu from USD 1,079 to USD 1,094. Altogether, the first quarter of 2020 was friendly to the... more
Humanitarian hubs and depots around the world
The UN Word Food Programme (WFP) has chosen Guangzhou in southern China and not the Alibaba metropolis Hangzhou (see ITJ 19-20/2020, p 14) as the place to set up one of its eight global humanitarian hubs. These locations form a hubs-and-spokes system that will route medical... more
Rail solution to curb Pandemic in Africa
Bolloré has launched a rail service for export cargo from Mombasa in Kenya to Uganda through the Naivasha ICD in a bid to reduce the spread of Covid-19. By using the rail to transport cargo up to Naivasha, the company hopes to reduce long-distance drivers' exposure to the... more
Management-buy-back on the Danube
It is a re-transaction. South Africa-headquartered Imperial, which is stepping back from its European inland navigation activities, has sold its 90% holding in Multinaut Donaulogistik Gesellschaft to Peter Jedlicka, Multinaut’s managing director. In 2008, it was the other way... more
Will Maersk weather the storm?
A.P. Moeller-Maersk showed a better performance in this year's first quarter than expected. Nevertheless, the Danish container shipping company warned of a 20-25% decrease in volumes in the second quarter. Maersk posted a USD 197 million net profit in the first three months... more
Aero Africa appoints director product development
Aero Africa, the Hong Kong-based air cargo management group, has named James Cameron director product development, Southern Africa. South Africa-born Cameron comes with profound international experience in the airfreight wholesale industry, after having worked ten years for... more
Humanitarian airlift from Lyon to Bangui
In response to the health emergency sparked by the Covid-19 pandemic, France fully supports the initiative taken by the European Union in conjunction with humanitarian NGOs and humanitarian actors belonging to the Réseau Logistique Humanitaire, to launch an airlift to deliver... more
Donating test kits at Entebbe airport
National Aviation Services (NAS), a global aviation services provider handling more than 370,000 t of cargo per year, recently donated rapid diagnostic testing kits to the Covid-19 national task force formed by the Ugandan ministry of health. They complement the ongoing... more