Dubai vaccine alliance ready for take off 
In Dubai, Emirates Skycargo, Dubai Airports, DP World and International Humanitarian City have joined forces and formed a vaccine logistics alliance to distribute vaccines by air, land and sea. Their combined expertise, along with global air routes, sea ports and logistics... more
Carrier reliability hits rock bottom
The Copenhagen-based maritime intelligence provider Sea-Intelligence has published the figures on carrier schedule reliability in December last year. In its latest issue of the Global Liner Performance (GLP) report, CEO Alan Murphy spoke of a "record-low 44.6 pc in December... more
A hundred for Tapa
The Transported Asset Protection Association (Tapa) in Europe, the Middle East & Africa (EMEA) has seen its membership steadily growing during the continuing disruptions caused by the Covid pandemic. The supply chain resilience and security association welcomed over 100... more
From preighters to authentic freighters
With the arrival of the first two A330F expected next month, Charleroi-based Air Belgium announces a big step into the cargo business. Two more full freighters of the same type are expected to be delivered shortly. These four aircraft are the last A330F deployed by Qatar... more
Waving the performing flags
The International Chamber of Shipping (ICS) has published the latest Flag State Performance Table (2020/2021). According to its findings, the largest flag states – including the Marshall Islands, Hong Kong (China), Singapore as well as the Bahamas and Cyprus – continue to... more
Bringing back wild animals for free
Few months after rolling out the first part of its sustainability programme "WeQare", Qatar Airways Cargo announces Chapter 2: "Rewild the Planet". Through a series of advertisements and a video to commemorate the announcement and importance of the issue, the... more
Agility believes in Victoria
Kuwait-headquartered Agility will invest USD 35 million in Queen’s Gambit Growth Capital, a blank-check company that will target businesses offering sustainable solutions in a number of sectors, among them clean energy, healthcare, financial technology, industrials, mobility and... more
If you're going to San Francisco...
The addition of Seattle from today, 1 February 2021 (followed by a fifth weekly flight to São Paulo four days later), Dallas and San Francisco (2 March) will take Emirates’ North American network to ten destinations following the resumption of services to Boston, Chicago,... more
Slight setback in ports worldwide
In December 2020, the flash estimate for its container throughput index published by the German research body Rheinisch-Westfälisches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung (RWI - Leibniz) and the Institute of Shipping Economics and Logistics (ISL) registered a light drop in world... more
155 PAX aircraft temporarily converted in 2020
Further to British aviation analyst Cirium, 155 aircraft had most if not all of their passenger seats removed last year in order to transport cargo in the cabin. Increased demand for PPE manufactured in Asia required fast distribution across the world. This coincided with... more