(Too) much time spent in ports 
Copenhagen-based maritime intelligence provider Sea-Intelligence used recent data published by the United Nations Conference on Trade and development (Unctad) on port stays of vessels to gain more information about current bottlenecks in the container shipping industry.... more
First flight to Libya seven years later
Medavia - Mediterranean Aviation from Malta, a joint venture of the Spanish airline Air Nostrum and the Libyan Arab Foreign Investment Company, is the first European Union airline to resume scheduled flights to and from Libya. A B737-300 chartered by Greece's Lumiwings, with... more
Precision and Zela ink strategic agreement
Cyprus-based Zela Aviation, which has been active in the aircraft chartering and sales business for the last 16 years, is adding a deal to its portfolio. At the end of last month it signed a strategic partnership agreement at Precision Air’s headquarters in Dar es Salaam,... more
TTC takes advantage of SAF offer
Total Touch Cargo Holland BV (TTC) and Air France KLM Martinair Cargo (AFKLMP Cargo) have formed a partnership within the framework of the airline’s sustainable aviation fuel programme. Under the agreement, AFKLMP Cargo will use sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) on selected... more
Two intra-African air cargo partners
Five months after signing an MoU in Kinshasa, Kenya Airways PLC (KQ), Kenya's flag carrier, has signed an aircraft lease agreement and begun operating a cargo codeshare partnership with Congo Airways. The agreement will see Kenya Airways lease two E190 jets to Congo Airways,... more
From TC3 to own offices in Morocco
After focusing on its connections to East Africa in May 2021, Hapag-Lloyd is now enlarging its footprint in Morocco as well. The shipping company currently has three bases in the country: a head office in Casablanca and satellite offices in Tangier and Agadir. In a press... more
Turkish Cargo: Sputnik-V doses from Serbia
Turkish Cargo has delivered more than 35,000 doses of Covid-19 vaccines produced in Serbia as a donation for African countries, from Belgrade to Tunisia and Lebanon. The vaccines, which were specially packaged and loaded on the aircraft with the Lifo (last in first out)... more
90 trucks delivered to South Africa
Daimler recently handed over an impressive fleet of 90 Mercedes-Benz Actros 2645LS trucks to logistics provider Bakers in South Africa. This purchase adds to company’s current mega fleet of nearly 650 vehicles, of which all are Mercedes-Benz trucks. The partnership began when... more
ICS proposes decarbonisation by tax
The International Chamber of Shipping (ICS) has presented to the International Maritime Organisation (IMO) a new proposal for a market measure (market based measure, MBM) in the form of a global fuel tax. Its aim is to “accelerate the deployment of fuels with zero carbon... more
Imperial logistics: latest results
Before the prospective takeover by DP World in February 2022, Imperial logistics has presented the figures of its last financial year, which ended 30 June 2021. Revenues were up 13% to ZAR 52.2 billion (USD 3.69 billion), ebitda rose more strongly by 22% to ZAR 4.99 billion... more