Cebu Pacific selects Swissport in Japan 
With recent contract wins in Osaka (KIX) and Fukuoka (FUK), Swissport is now supporting Cebu Pacific, a Philippines-based low-cost airline, in an exclusive partnership at all Japanese stations. Swissport has been providing airport ground services and air cargo handling for Cebu... more
Maersk chooses Hasan Faraz
Maersk has appointed Hasan Faraz as its new managing director, Maersk Pakistan. He began his career at Maersk in 2002 through the company’s international shipping education programme (MISE). Since then, Faraz has held several positions in various functions within Maersk and... more
Nippon Express goes for Delhi Airport
Japan-headquartered freight forwarder Nippon Express (NE) India recently opened a logistics centre in the cargo area of Indira Gandhi International Airport in Delhi. So far, NE India has transported the cargo collected from its customers directly to the airlines or stored it... more
ITJ exclusive: Qatar Airways flies for Cainiao
Following the recent expansion of its business with Atlas Air, Cainiao, the logistics arm of Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba, will fly goods from Hong Kong to São Paulo-GRU via Doha on B777 freighters operated by Qatar Airways Cargo. The service will begin tomorrow, 5 March... more
Big commitment for widebody conversions
Air Transport Services Group (ATSG), a US lessor of freighter aircraft, has committed to a total of 29 A330 passenger-to-freighter conversion slots with Elbe Flugzeugwerke (EFW), German centre of excellence for Airbus freighter conversions and a joint venture between Singapore's... more
IRS to focus on "innovating rail"
The 11th International Railway Summit (IRS), which will be organised in association with the International Union of Railways (UIC), will take place in Berlin (Germany) on 30 May – 1 June 2022. The topic will be ‘Innovating rail for people, planet and prosperity’. The... more
Balanced results for Auckland ports
The Ports of Auckland reported rising throughput during the first half of its financial year, July till December 2021. While container volumes rose moderately (+1.4%) to 364,000 teu compared to the same period a year ago (359,000 teu), breakbulk volumes including cars for the... more
Attracting Eurasian transit container transportation
Intermodal operator Trans Container has signed a three-party agreement on cooperation with two Chinese forwarders to make transit container transportation from China to Europe more attractive and competitive. The agreement was signed on the Chinese side by Shandong Jitie... more
MOL: new executive officers
Mitsui O.S.K. Lines (MOL; president & CEO: Takeshi Hashimoto) has announced the following executive appointments: Takashi Maruyama, former representative director, senior managing executive officer of Daibiru Corporation, has been promoted to group executive officer,... more
Port of Nansha also benefits
As part of the Guangzhou Port Group (GPG) of mainland China, the Port of Nansha benefited from favourable market conditions in 2021. Located northwest of Hong Kong on the western bank of the Pearl River, the port saw a throughput of 17.6 million teu. In total, GPG handled... more