March 2024
Lufthansa Cargo says it achieved significantly higher average yields than before the start of the corona pandemic despite increased capacities in the market.
In its annual report for 2023, it noted that sales of 7.5 billion freight tonne-km last year were slightly higher than in the previous year 2022 (7.2 billion) while the average load factor fell by 1.9 percentage points year-on-year to 59.2%, while the available capacity increased by 7% ...
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The global air cargo market’s surprisingly positive start to 2024 continued in February with a second consecutive month of double-digit demand growth and an uptick in general freight spot rates, said analyst Xeneta in its latest weekly market analysis, published on 6 March.
Following January’s 11% growth in volumes, February saw ...
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Qatar Airways Cargo’s Boeing 747F, registration A7-BGB, landed for the last time in commercial cargo service in Doha on March 1.
A7-BGB joined the Qatar Airways Cargo fleet on 26 September 2017 and over the past seven years, the carrier’s two jumbo freighters were deployed on over 9,000 flights and carried ...
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Grangemouth hosted the Scottish Parliament’s cabinet secretary for transport, Fiona Hyslop MSP (pictured centre, with chief executive designate Stuart Wallace, right, and director of operations, Derek Knox) on 6 March in her first visit to a major port in her new role.
She was briefed by the Forth Ports senior port ...
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A group of retailers, including Home Bargains owner TJ Morris, have joined Liverpool operator Peel Ports Group to call for shipping lines to introduce a new North/South, two-port UK strategy for delivering deep-sea containerised cargo.
Around 90% of deep-sea containerised cargo enters the UK via southern ports, despite 60% of these ...
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DHL eCommerce has appointed Stuart Hill as UK chief executive. Hill will oversee the opening of the company’s second hub in Coventry later this year and takes over from Peter Fuller who is retiring after three decades in the industry. Hill has spent over two decades in retail logistics, most ...
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The Join the Move to –15°C Coalition, which campaigns to reset frozen food temperature standards to reduce greenhouse gases has appointed refrigerated cargo expert, Thomas Eskesen, as chair.
The Coalition, which was initiated by DP World in 2023, is an industry-wide alliance that aims to redefine frozen food temperature standards to ...
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DP World’s CNS (Community Network Services) has gained CCS-UK Agent Imports Accreditation for its Customs Declaration Management System (CDMS). The customs software company says it will give its customers a comprehensive solution for all their declaration requirements covering all trade frontiers across air, land and sea.
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Nottingham forwarder Baxter Freight has launched a recruitment campaign to increase account manager numbers by 40% in 2024.
In the ten years since it was founded, Baxter Freight says the logistics industry has evolved significantly and, particularly after Brexit, complexity has increased substantially.
In response, it has strengthened its customer-facing account manager ...
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Hong Kong-based Kerry Logistics Network has acquired a majority stake in French forwarder Business By Air. BBA serves industrial clients in verticals including automotive, aerospace and pharmaceutical, and is also established in the African market, BBA has been acting as Kerry Logistis’ agent in France since 2016 and, in addition ...
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