American Airlines Cargo transports a true cosmopolitan 
American Airlines Cargo welcomed a very special shipment from Latin America when Sandra – an orangutan with human rights – was carefully moved from Buenos Aires, Argentina to the USA, where she will eventually find a new home at the sanctuary for great apes in Florida.... more
Etihad Cargo introduces winter network
Leading Etihad Cargo’s annual refresh of its winter network is the enhancement of its freighter services between Abu Dhabi (UAE) and Columbus, Ohio (USA). A weekly service, now via Europe to Rickenbacker International Airport in Columbus, will be supported by its RFS network to... more
Boosting intermodal trade with new containers
By the end of this year, US transport company YRC and US class I railway BNSF will have taken aboard more than 600 branded intermodal containers. These new containers are part of the YRC commitment to acquire 1,000 branded intermodal containers by the end of 2020. Most of... more
Dokasch's Opticooler FAA approved
DoKaSch Temperature Solutions has received the approval for its Opticooler RAP, a temperature-controlled air cargo container, by the Federal Aviation Administration. Now the Germany-based ULD services provider will be able to cooperate with carriers from the USA and pave the way... more
Global railway industry bucks the trend
The business climate of the international railway industry remains on a high level in Q3/2019 quarter and is even registering a slight increase compared to Q2/2019. This is shown by the current SCI rail business index – a regular survey which the consultancy SCI Verkehr conducts... more
US short line railroad can now handle heavier freight cars
Georgia Central Railway, a 340 km short line freight railroad operating between Macon and Savannah, USA, has upgraded its entire line to handle 142 t railcar loadings, matching the capacity of connecting national railroads. The railroad had been limited to 132 t loadings due... more
Small passenger aircraft still deliver relief to the Bahamas
Air Charter Service’s Miami office in Florida (USA) recently filled up an empty passenger aircraft, on its way to perform an evacuation flight, with key supplies that it had purchased to help those in need following hurricane Dorian. Along with several evacuation flights... more
Chapman Freeborn takes Los Angeles on board
Chapman Freeborn OBC has expanded its global network of offices to Los Angeles, California to help provide dedicated support for customers in the US market. The on board courier (OBC) specialist delivers time-critical consignments of manufacturing components, prototypes, and... more
LOT improves pharma transport options
Qualified by LOT Cargo director Michal Grochowski as "a big step in our LOT Polish Airlines history", the Central European carrier recently signed a master lease agreement with CSafe Global, an innovative provider of active temperature-controlled air cargo containers,... more
Heavy haul freight train runs by itself in the USA
New York Air Brake, a US subsidiary of the Knorr-Bremse Group, has deployed its on-board energy management system to test the automatic driving capabilities of a freight train in Colorado, USA. Driving on an 80 km long test track and with locomotive engineers riding along,... more