Drinking water for Mississippi's capital city 
Over 150,000 people in Jackson, MS are left without safe running water after the state's capital city's main water treatment facility failed due to the recent flooding of the Pearl River. To fight this water shortage crisis, National Airlines of Orlando donated and airlifted... more
AACargo adds 28 countries to Webcargo platform
American Airlines Cargo continues to expand its network on the Webcargo by Freightos platform and has now added 28 new countries and more than 40 markets across Latin America, the Caribbean and Canada. Following Europe and USA, this regional rollout onto Webcargo now... more
Digitalisation to support increasing volumes
Kale Info Solutions, the US subsidiary of Mumbai-based Kale Logistics Solutions, has entered a partnership with Chicago Rockford International Airport (RFD). The implementation of its airport cargo community system will reduce manual documentation and data entry time for cargo... more
More warehouse space close to New York City
Additional space for the peak season to come - that's what World Distribution Services (WDS) has created by extending one of its warehouses. The provider of warehouse logistics solutions made 18,600 sqm additional space available at its Linden, New Jersey facility. The... more
Curaçao Airport Partners welcomes Jonny Andersen
The shareholders of Curaçao Airport Partners (CAP) have named Jonny Andersen the new CEO of CAP, effective 1 September 2022. During his career, Andersen has worked as CEO at Kenya airports authority in Kenya, as director national airports at Avinor in Norway, and senior vice... more
Drewry on the flow of new containers
In its latest report, "Container Census & Leasing Annual Review & Forecast 2022/23", London-based maritime research consultancy Drewry estimates that congestion across global supply chains means that containers were 15 to 20% less productive than in pre-Covid... more
UK P&I Club welcomes William Beveridge
UK P&I Club, a provider of P&I insurance and other services to the international shipping community, has appointed William Beveridge as chief underwriting officer, effective 17 September 2022. Reporting to CEO Andrew Taylor, Beveridge will oversee all the club’s... more
First public CV charging station opened
Michigan's first public electric commercial vehicle charging station has opened in Kalamazoo at the truck dealer plant WMI. Located directly off I-94, one of the largest freight corridors in the Midwest of USA, the new electric vehicle (EV) charging station is optimised for... more
Jamaica appoints deputy registrar in Florida
The Maritime Authority of Jamaica (MAJ) has appointed William Nock of Jamaican Yacht Registration Services as a deputy registrar, effective 30 August 2033. He will represent the Jamaica ship registry for the registration of yachts in the USA market space. William Nock is a... more
TFI International selling a big piece
TFI International, a Canadian transport and logistics group that is also operates in USA and Mexico, has decided to sell CFI’s truckload and Mexican non-asset logistics businesses to Heartland Express. The price was USD 525.0 million, subject to customary closing adjustments and... more