July 2023
Kuehne+Nagel has signed a partnership with IAG Cargo whereby it will part-fund the carrier's purchase of six million litres of Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF) in 2023. The SAF, which will have International Sustainability and Carbon Certification is produced from used cooking oil and food waste, and will have at least 80% lower lifecycle emissions than conventional jet fuel.
IAG says it was the first European airline group to make a commitment ...
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Turkish Cargo, the air cargo brand of Turkish Airlines, ranked the 3rd among the leading air cargo carriers in the world, in the wake of a prospering performance in May.
The successful brand, which was ranked 5th on the same period of last year according to the monthly data published by ...
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Logistics UK is calling for a longer term alternative to Operation Brock as a means to handle freight traffic through the Channel ports during disruption.
The traffic management system, which is being deployed ahead of predicted heavy holiday traffic this weekend (22/23 July), increases costs and disruption to operators, it says.
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Felixstowe-based container storage and transport provider James Kemball has launched an out-of-gauge (OOG) project cargo service after investing £400,000 in new equipment.
It includes a Timars OH semi-automatic spreader and multi lift modular spreader frames, which allow it to load OOG cargo from containers in Felixstowe and other UK ports. There ...
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The new container terminal at JCPDI Port, Jazan, Saudi Arabia has handled its first vessel, the MV Kota Rahmat on Pacific International Lines (PIL)’s , Intra Red Sea Feeder service which also calls at Jeddah, Port Sudan, Djibouti Hodeidah and Aden in Yemen. The Hutchison-operated port is expected to become ...
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RwandAir has appointed Worldwide Flight Services (WFS) as its cargo handling partner for its new direct flights to Paris Charles de Gaulle. WFS will provide full cargo handling services. The Rwandan airline is now flying to the capital Kigali with three non-stop Airbus A330 flights a week, its first-ever direct ...
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Rotterdam’s total cargo throughput was 5.5% lower in the first half of the year at 220.7 million tonnes compared with 2022’s 233.5 million tonnes, according to the port authority’s latest report. The fall was mainly seen in containers, coal throughput and other dry bulk commodities while agribulk, iron ore and ...
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The Otto Group’s logistics service provider Hermes Fulfilment is to take over a dispatch centre in Valdengo, Northern Italy, around 100kms west of Milan. The site specialises processing low-volume product ranges and employs around 230 people. Valdengo will mostly be used for processing returns from Southern Europe for the online ...
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More than $122 billion of economic activity is at risk from the impact of extreme climate events on ports, according to research by Oxford’s Environmental Change Institute.
According to the paper in Nature Climate Change, knock-on effects within global shipping, trade and supply chains network will hit ports and economies around ...
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Latin American carrier Avianca has joined the Cargo iQ quality standards organization. The airline will help its partners and suppliers adhere to international standards and practices to ensure efficiency and drive improved service quality control.
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