November 2020

Three steps to air cargo heaven

Lufthansa Cargo is offering a simplified eBooking system. Customer now need only to define the shipment, choose the product and confirm the route. The system guides customers through the process with automatic suggestions and suitable options and then calculates a price that can be booked directly. Changes can also be easily made afterwards and also confirms the booking immediately. [+]

Gloom descends over empty Heathrow

Heathrow’s cargo volumes were down in October 23% compared to last year, according to the airport’s latest traffic figures. However, UK’s aviation industry is essential to the supply chain of temperature-sensitive, time-critical goods like vaccines - 41% of the UK’s pharmaceutical supplies are imported via Heathrow alone, it said. North America ... [+]

DP World sees pivotal role for Dominican Republic

DP World has started work on expanding the main berth at its Caucedo port terminal in the Dominican Republic, with the aim of transforming the country into the principal logistics hub of the Americas. The expansion adds 450 meters of berth. Three super post panamax and five RTG cranes have ... [+]

Waste not, want not on Teesside

PD Ports has signed an agreement with Wentworth Clean Power (WCP) to bring a £230 million waste-to-energy project to Teesport. WCP  and its partners, will develop, finance and deliver the project on Dockside Road, to the south of Teesport Commerce Park. The Teesport Renewable Energy Centre, will sit on a 9-acre ... [+]

New Russia member for WACO

AAA-A2 Cargo has joined the WACO freight forwarding community as its new member for Russia. The independent freight forwarder has offices in Moscow, St Petersburg, Minsk, Belarus; Vilnius, Lithuania; and Riga, Latvia, focussing on time and temperature-sensitive cargo. [+]

E-commerce lift-off for cargo carriers

Volga-Dnepr Group says its air cargo carriers – AirBridgeCargo Airlines and ATRAN Airlines - have achieved over three-fold increase in e-commerce volumes for the first nine months of 2020. Over 75,000 tonnes of dedicated packages with online purchases were delivered globally throughout the carriers’ network of 747 and 737 freighters, with ... [+]

Hungary for growth in eastern Europe

Palletways Hungary has increased its volumes by more than 750% since it was launched two years ago, says parent company Imperial Group. The network started trading in 2018 from its central hub in Budapest and has moved over 180,000 pallets since then. Today, it serves more than 800 customers, more ... [+]

Oakland adds distressed load capacity

Food logistics specialist Oakland International is increasing the capacity of its Distressed Loads service, which deals with the aftermath of clandestine immigrants being discovered inside trailers arriving in the UK from the Continent. Launched in 2002, it was the first registered and recognised service for inspecting and the sortation of consignments ... [+]

E-commerce boom lifts DHL

Deutsche Post DHL Group saw strong growth in the third quarter of 2020. In an economic climate dominated by Covid-19, revenue grew by 4.4% to €16.2 billion while ‘organic’ revenue – after adjusting for portfolio and currency effects – was up by 9.0%. The group says it has benefitted from the ... [+]

Giving customs clearance the X-factor

Forwarding expert Robert Falconer has launched Customs X, a service to help safeguard smaller firms avoid falling foul of Brexit customs regulations after 31 December. He says that it introduces a different style to the traditional methods of customs data entry, moving away from rudimentary form filling towards data flow ... [+]

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