December 2021
Hondura’s new airport, Palmerola International, has handled its first scheduled flights. On December 11, the airport greeted Spirit Airlines as the first scheduled carrier with daily flights from Houston and four weekly flights from Miami. United Airlines, American Airlines, Copa Airlines and Avianca are also now operating regular flights. Destinations served are Houston, Miami, Dallas, Panama City, El Salvador and Guatemala City. From January 2022, Spirit Airlines plans to add ...
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ACS volunteers helped keep Covid test kit supplies flowing earlier this month. Two flights arriving at Birmingham Airport with more than two million kits on board were unable to be offloaded by the local handling agent alone so the charter broker sent a team of ten people from its Surbiton ...
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The transhipment of containers went through a dip due to the Covid-19 outbreak but, from autumn 2020 onwards, Rotterdam has seen a rapid recovery with 7.8% growth in the first nine months of 2021 on the back of a surge in consumer spending is booming and a recovering economy, with ...
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Airfreight coldchain specialist Envirotainer is calling for continued collaboration between pharmaceutical firms and the logistics industry as it marked the billionth Covid vaccine carried in its fleet of over 6,500 temperature-controlled air cargo containers.
With much of Europe introducing new lockdowns in the face of the Omicron surge, the whole sector ...
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Saudi Arabian Airlines’ SAL Saudi Logistics Services arm has opened an extension of its Jeddah Station. The new extension spans over 656,6000sq ft (61,000sq m) for medical and food cold chain services, dangerous cargo and valuable cargo. The extension is expected to increase SAL’s annual cargo capacity in Jeddah to ...
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Cherbourg Port handled its 100,000th trailer travelling between Ireland and France on 22 December. The port has multiplied its roll-on/roll-off traffic by three in a year as Brexit has made the route more competitive compared to the UK landbridge, with Stena Line, Irish Ferries and Brittany Ferries operating services to ...
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Turkish Cargo has signed a deal to become the logistics solutions partner of Togg (Turkey's Automobile Joint Venture Group), and has moved the country’s first electric automobile to the CES tech expo in Las Vegas. Togg will exhibit for the first time at CES expo of Las Vegas on 5-8 ...
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Direct flights between Bangladesh and Manchester Airport restarted on 28 December. Biman Bangladesh Airlines will operate twice a week services to Dhaka and Sylhet until 28 March with Boeing 787 Dreamliner aircraft.
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Trade links between the UK and Ireland can be stronger than ever with effective customs arrangements, argues freight forwarder Woodland Group in a new paper published on 21 December.
It says that when the new Brexit trade agreement came into force earlier this year, data from Ireland’s Central Statistics Office (CSO) ...
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The Bolloré Group has received an offer from the MSC Group to acquire 100% of Bolloré Africa Logistics, comprising all of the Bolloré Group’s transport and logistics activities for €5.7 billion.
It has granted MSC until 31 March 2022 to enable it to carry out additional due diligence checks and to ...
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