Vaccines to Greenland 
Air Transport International (ATI), a passenger and cargo airline headquartered in Wilmington OH (USA), has expanded its wide-body freighter fleet by taking delivery of a B767-300ERF. Last month, the subsidiary of the Air Transport Services Group, which also works for the US... more
Aged UPS freighters undergo facelift
Airbus has handed over the first completed cockpit upgrade for UPS Airlines’ fleet of 52 A300-600 freighters. The aircraft, revitalised with state-of-the-art Honeywell cockpit avionics, was redelivered to UPS at Airbus’ US facility in Mobile, AL following the certification by... more
New freighter jets for North America
Miami-based Amerijet, which operates its own dedicated freighter fleet of B767 throughout the USA, the Caribbean, Mexico, Central and South America, as well as Western Europe, is to begin piloting A321-200P2F operations as early as this month. The company has signed a wet-lease... more
Shippers go to the barricades
Shippers recently found strong words for situation of the shipping market and the lack of mechanisms to resolve it. Denis Choumert, chairman of Global Shippers’ Alliance (GSA) and the European Shippers’ Council, spoke of "immense impairments" and sufferings of... more
US airlines increase freight volumes abroad
Completing the data analysed on p. 13 of today's ITJ 09-10/2021, US airlines carried 1,854,000 t of cargo in December 2020 (preliminary), which is 17% more than in December 2019. The rise was fuelled by gains of 16% in domestic cargo and 20% in international cargo, according... more
Regular Asia-Americas service
The Singapore-based AAL Shipping (AAL) has decided to commit to one sailing per month between Asia and the Americas in 2021. With last year's experience of carrying a much broader portfolio of cargoes into Central America, United States Gulf of Mexico (USG), and the United... more
Fastrate Group widens its scope
Canadian Fastrate Group acquires ASL Distribution Services Limited (ASL), a 3PL provider that has been active in Eastern Canada for more than 60 years. The Fastrate Group, which was founded more than 50 years ago, started out as an LTL road haulier and intermodal carrier and... more
Two more CRJ200 freighter conversions
Miami-based MRO services provider Aeronautical Engineers (AEI) has signed a contract to provide Mexico-based Aeronaves T.S.M. (TSM) with two additional CRJ200 SF freighter conversions. The first CRJ200 of this order will commence in May 2021, followed by the second aircraft... more
MAJ warns of a seafarers' exodus
The Maritime Authority of Jamaica (MAJ) expressed its growing concerns about future seafarer shortages if the crew change crisis should continue. In a media release, the possibility of "exhausted crew choosing to leave the shipping industry rather than risk another long... more
Ryder on the run
For Ryder, which has been listed on the NYSE since 1960 and specialises in the vehicle sales, commercial rental and automotive supply chain business, the year 2020 was no success. Revenues shrank by 5.7% to USD 8.4 billion, falling over all four quarters. Nevertheless, operating... more