Manaus wants more 
Super Terminais Comercio e Industria (Super Terminais), a private cargo terminal at the Port of Manaus, Brazil, has ordered three Konecranes Gottwald cranes to serve large container vessels. A river port located at the confluence of the Amazon River and the Rio Negro in the... more
Haeco Xiamen redelivers first B737-800SF
Haeco Xiamen, a member of the Haeco Group, has redelivered to Aviation Holdings III its first B737-800SF converted freighter with supplemental type certificate (STC) partner Aeronautical Engineers, Inc. (AEI). The Chinese company has been an authorised AEI conversion centre... more
Rail Hub in Louisiana to open next January
Logistics company Savage is partnering with rail firm Kansas City Southern (KCS) to construct a multi-commodity rail port with transload and railcar storage capabilities in Mossville (La), USA. Savage will own and operate the rail port, which is being built on property... more
Are you on the list?
Distinction is necessary in the market. Four Kites, a Chicago-headquartered logistics software provider that runs a real-time supply chain visibility platform, has just published its global premier carrier list for Q2/2021. The company’s tenth consecutive quarterly list... more
10 million Covid-19 vaccines 
IAG Cargo, the airfreight division of the International Airlines Group (IAG), has transported no less than 10 million Covid-19 vaccines. This figure includes 4 million doses hauled to Abuja (Nigeria) in collaboration with Unicef and its Covax initiative, and 300,000 doses... more
Canadian railway moves closer to China
Canadian Pacific Railway (CP) is building closer ties with its customers in China following the launch of its Chinese language website. The website is part of a broader outreach program in China and across Asia to ensure that customers have access to up-to-date information,... more
In the bellies of holiday jets
Lufthansa Cargo now markets the freight capacities of the new long-haul flights operated by Eurowings Discover, a new Lufthansa Group tourist airline. The German cargo carrier has thus added further frequencies directly from its Frankfurt (FRA) hub to the range of services it... more
Supporting the constitutional referendum in Haiti
In May and June Chapman Freeborn transported material, needed for a constitutional referendum, from Miami and Johannesburg airports to Port-au-Prince (PAP), the capital of Haiti.The referendum was initially set to take place in a month, on 19 September, but has now been... more
Fiata names world’s best youngsters
The International Federation of Freight Forwarders Associations (Fiata), based in Geneva, and the TT Club, an international freight transport insurer based in the UK, have selected the regional winners of this year’s Young International Freight Forwarder of the Year Award... more
The run of carriers in the Transpacific
The Copenhagen-based maritime consultancy Sea-Intelligence has taken an in-depth look at the current hot spot in Asia–North American west coast (NAWC) trades. After a dip in the number of distinct Asia–NAWC services, due to the pandemic – nothing new there –, there was a... more