New "preighter" destination Shenzhen 
Lufthansa Cargo is now offering up to fourteen additional cargo flights a week from Shenzhen to Frankfurt. The first aircraft, an A330-300 from Lufthansa, took off from the Pearl River Delta city last Monday, 18 May 2020. Around 3 million respiratory masks and other medical... more
IRU: Follow the example!
The German parliament has voted to extend the existing exemption from road tolls for clean trucks, powered by CNG, LNG and electricity, until 2023. The International Road Union (IRU) welcomed this decision for a greener road transport and now calls on all governments around... more
Emirates expands scheduled and charter operations
Last Thursday, 21 May 2020, Emirates resumed scheduled service to nine passenger destinations, offering bellyhold cargo capacity to and from Chicago, Frankfurt, London Heathrow, Madrid, Melbourne, Milan, Paris CDG, Sydney and Toronto. Simultaneously, Emirates Skycargo... more
Flying vaccines from Brussels to Mumbai
Qatar Airways Cargo transported 56 Skycell containers with vaccines from Global Biopharma on its scheduled maindeck and bellyhold cargo flights for Ceva Logistics. The 54 t shipment consisting of pneumococcal and varicella vaccines were flown from Brussels to Mumbai via Doha... more
More than 350 t of Chinese mail for Europe
A China-Europe freight train from Yiwu, east China's Zhejiang province, arrived on Saturday (16.5.2020) in Vilnius, the capital of Lithuania, according to the state-own Chinese information office. The train carried 100 twenty-foot equivalent units (teus) loaded with 354 t of... more
Rocktree looks back on 2019 with joy
The Singapore-based waterborne logistics company Rocktree has reported handling 28 million t of cargo during 2019 - a record in volumes. Last year saw its newly established subsidiary company Rocktree Consulting awarded its first contracts, while its joint venture company... more
Twelve days and 9,500 km through six countries
Ensuring the safe, cost-effective and speedy transport of valuable and heavy cargo from its manufacturer in Germany to its recipient in China in times of Covid-19 turned out to be an adventure even for the experienced heavy duty forwarder Rolf Riedl. Since neither ship nor... more
Delta's long haul services open for... passengers
Demand for air cargo is driving the return of Delta's passenger services from the USA to Europe for the first time since Covid-19 closed borders. From tomorrow, 21 May 2020, flights to Frankfurt and London will provide cargo capacity three times weekly from Atlanta (31 t on... more
MOL's new units with dual-fuel engine
At Mitsubishi’s Shimonoseki shipyard in Japan, the first two LNG-fuelled ferries will be built by Ferry Sunflower, a subsidiary of Mitsui O.S.K. Lines (MOL). This newbuild project has been adopted for Japan’s energy conservation rating system for coastal ships, a... more
Latam Group increases cargo capacity on widebody aircraft
After three days of work at Sao Paulo’s maintenance centre, Latam Group announced the first B777-300ER reconfiguration. This aircraft's economy cabin had passenger seats temporarily removed to increase its cargo transportation capacity by 20%. Due to its suitability for long... more