Fresh international connections for NE India 
The Indian carrier, Spice Xpress, recently flagged off its first ever "Spice Fresh" consignment to Hong Kong and Dubai from Guwahati in Assam (India). The company sees huge potential for exporting agricultural products from northeast India, which lacks proper... more
Booking land, air and sea freight in the blink of an eye
DB Schenker customers can now book freight shipments online regardless of the transport mode via the company’s new Connect digital platform. Every customer can obtain access to the German service provider’s international transport network at the click of a mouse. DB Schenker... more
Train covers 1 million km autonomously
Rio Tinto has successfully deployed the world’s largest robot and the first automated heavyhaul, long distance rail network. Since completing the first loaded run in July 2018, the mining company has steadily increased the number of autonomous journeys across its iron ore... more
Latam Cargo to serve sixth US destination from February
Latam Cargo will introduce a new cargo route between Santiago de Chile and Chicago IL on 19 February. It will be the company’s sixth destination in the USA. Thanks to Chicago's strategic connectivity to Asia, with this new route the airline expects to offer a better product... more
Cargolux opens routes to Mexico and for whales
Exactly one month ago, on 10 December 2018, Cargolux introduced a new transpacific service between Hong Kong (HGK) and Mexico City. The twice weekly service, which is the seventh between HGK and destinations in North America after Chicago, Columbus-Rickenbacker, Dallas, Los... more
Khryapov appointed CEO of United Wagon Company
Timofey Vladimirovich Khryapov has been appointed CEO of the Russian research and production corporation United Wagon Company (UWC). As CEO, Khryapov will work to make the company attractive to investors and implement business strategy priorities, with a particular focus on... more
Expanding SF Airlines has hub plans for Chengdu
SF Airlines, a Shenzhen-based airfreight brand within the SF Holding, recently added the 49th and 50th full freighter aircraft to its fleet, "thus officially becoming a medium-size airline", as the privately held Chinese company pointed out. Only a few days later,... more
Qatar Cargo adds second Mexican destination to transpac...
As of 6 January, Guadalajara airport (GDL) became a new destination on Qatar Airways' high demand transpacific freighter route. The twice-weekly B777F service flies directly from Macau to Los Angeles, then onward to Mexico City, before arriving in Guadalajara. The aircraft... more
Delivery speed and transport costs drive traffic volume
According to the Russia-based United Transport and Logistics Company - Eurasian Railway Alliance (UTLC ERA), its 2018 traffic volume rose to between 275,000 and 280,000 teu, 60% more than the 175,800 teu in 2017. UTLC ERA expects to transport about 350,000 teu this year. In... more
First new locomotive runs along Baku-Tbilisi-Kars line
Alstom has delivered the first of the 40 Prima T8 AZ8A freight locomotives to Azerbaijan Railways (ADY), which will operate the units on the Baku-Tbilisi-Kars regional line. The locomotive, produced at EKZ, a joint venture between Alstom and Transmashholding in Kazakhstan,... more