September 2021
Three decades of bringing help to the world
Air Charter Service and Volga-Dnepr Group have celebrated 30 years of on humanitarian missions.
At the end of 1989 Alexey Isaikin was working on the aviation plant in Ulyanovsk overseeing manufacturing of Antonov 124s and Chris Leach was unemployed but with a wealth of aircraft charter contacts. Shortly afterwards he began working as a broker from his basement in his house in Kingston-upon-Thames. As the Soviet Union ...
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Nigerian aviation consultancy, flight operations, and logistics business Aglow Aviation Support Services has joined the Cargo iQ cross-stakeholder organization.
Aglow Aviation’s daughter company, Aglow Air, was recently incorporated as a dedicated cargo airline in Nigeria, operating as an unscheduled cargo carrier out of Lagos.
Aglow managing director, Tayo Ojuri, said: “Being in ...
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The Total Terminals International container terminal on Long Beach’s Pier T is piloting 24-hour operation as part of programme by the port to reduce dwell times. TTI is also opening gates during the third shift, from 3-7am, Monday to Thursday, for two-way, prearranged truck appointments to both drop off and ...
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Shipping group-turned-air cargo operator CMA CGM is to buy two new Boeing 777 freighters to grow its air freight division.
CMA CGM Group launched its dedicated air freight division, CMA CGM Air Cargo, in March flights between Liege (Belgium) and Chicago, followed by New York, Atlanta, and Dubai.
The group said the ...
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Global air, road and sea groups and trade unions have called on the UN General Assembly to end the hotch-potch of inconsistent and unpredictable travel restrictions that has brought chaos to the global supply chain in the wake of the Covid crisis.
In an open letter published on 29 September, the ...
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Associated British Ports has appointed Kate Cornhill as head of human resources (HR) for the Southampton region. She is currently the senior people director at cruise operator Carnival UK, and will be bringing expertise from her current role in recruitment for the maritime industry.
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Unifeeder vessel ElbBlue has carried out the world’s first marine trial of liquefied synthetic natural gas (SNG) fuel. SNG is carbon-neutral and is produced using wind power.
During the trial voyage, the SNG fuel blend – produced by Kiwi’s Power-to-Gas facility in Werlte, Germany - was expected to reduce the ElbBlue’s ...
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Kenya-based cargo airline Astral Aviation has joined with the HOPE Consortium to distribute vaccines to Africa. HOPE will utilise Astral Aviation’s comprehensive network, technologies, and market expertiseand the alliance will ensure timely delivery of vaccines and critical supplies to all 54 African nations.
Astral Aviation operates a fleet of 14 freighter ...
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The FourKites supply chain visibility platform has introduced Order Intelligence Hub, a ‘single-pane-of-glass’ view of the entire lifecycle of every order. It integrates order data, load information across modes, yard shipments, inventory visibility and other critical third-party systems, such as warehouse management systems and order management systems and aims to ...
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Austria’s Gebrüder Weiss is taking over the operations of Wolf Internationale Spedition and Air System Luftfracht Spedition in Straubing, Lower Bavaria in Germany. The companies’ 20 employees bring expertise inland, air and sea international forwarding and the new Gebrüder Weiss branch will be based at a recently purchased 45,000sq m ...
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