American Airlines has expanded its cargo schedule in May to provide 140 weekly flights to 15 cities in Asia Pacific, Europe and the Caribbean, up from 80 flights last week. New destinations include daily flights between Dallas-Fort Worth (DFW) and Hong Kong (HKG); and weekly flights from DFW and Beijing (PEK); DFW Chicago (ORD) and Paris (CDG); ORD and London Heathrow (LHR); Philadelphia (PHL) and Rome (FCO); PHL and San Juan (SJU), and PHL and Zurich (ZRH). For more than 75 years, cargo … [Read more...] about American Airlines continues its pioneering history with expanded cargo operations
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CEVA Logistics launches its Truck-Rail-Truck service, a new solution to keep cargo moving across Asia
CEVA Logistics has designed an innovative Truck-Rail-Truck (TRT) solution to keep customers’ freight moving across Asia during the COVID-19 crisis. Prevents long waits at border crossings China and the Southeast Asian region are facing flight suspensions and reductions, space limits and operational restrictions in addition to long waits at border crossings due to the COVID-19 pandemic. CEVA Logistics introduced TRT as a practical and innovative multi-modal transport … [Read more...] about CEVA Logistics launches its Truck-Rail-Truck service, a new solution to keep cargo moving across Asia
FedEx continues to assist in overcoming the COVID-19 outbreak
FedEx Express, a subsidiary of FedEx Corp (NYSE: FDX) and the world’s largest express transportation company, has continued to donate shipping services and work with nonprofits to proactively support with relief efforts, helping prevent spread of the COVID-19 worldwide. These relief supplies shipped from China to the countries around the globe will be allocated by Direct Relief and Heart to Heart International to qualified health centers and hospitals with the most significant public health … [Read more...] about FedEx continues to assist in overcoming the COVID-19 outbreak
As economists predict global economy is ‘bottoming out’, do April’s air cargo volumes offer a glimmer of hope?
While air cargo volumes diminished rapidly in March, new data for April offers some hope that leading economists are right and the decline in the global economy is ‘bottoming out’. For April as a whole, volumes declined 39% year-on-year, but an even greater capacity drop of 45% highlighted the current shortage of air cargo capacity, according to the latest industry intelligence from CLIVE Data Services. Its first-to-market week-by-week data shows air cargo volumes … [Read more...] about As economists predict global economy is ‘bottoming out’, do April’s air cargo volumes offer a glimmer of hope?
UNCTAD’s report on global e-commerce sales gives confidence to U-Freight
The U-Freight Group (UFL), with its considerable involvement in e-commerce logistics, says that the latest statistics showing that global e-commerce sales hit USD25.6 trillion in 2018 are a further vindication of its decision to enter this sector of the international freight market several years ago. The latest available estimates, up 8 percent from 2017, were recently released by the UN’s trade and development body, UNCTAD, which said the estimated 2018 e-commerce sales value, which … [Read more...] about UNCTAD’s report on global e-commerce sales gives confidence to U-Freight
Saudia Cargo lifts record payload between Lahore to Riyadh in April
Saudia Cargo says it made a record payload carrying essential food supplies from Lahore, Pakistan to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia’s capital Riyadh, using a passenger aircraft turned into an all-cargo flight, a new trend that emerged in the ongoing fight against the Coronavirus pandemic. The record 65.3 tons of perishables such as meat and vegetables were loaded into the lower deck of a Boeing-777 passenger plane and safely arrived in the Kingdom on April 25. Saudia Cargo has … [Read more...] about Saudia Cargo lifts record payload between Lahore to Riyadh in April