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Turkish Cargo signs Singapore shopping deal

Turkish Cargo has renewed its partnership with Singapore-based e-commerce platform Shopee. The carrier offers a flight time of seven hours to more than 60 capital cities in the world from irts SmartIST hub at the city’s new airport Istanbul and offers dedicated services such as TK Courier and Airmail for e-commerce. [+]

Get ready for capacity crunch, warns forwarding chief

Forwarders must prepare for an airfreight volume crunch driven by lack of ocean capacity, said executive director of the Airforwarders Association (AfA), Brandon Fried. He told members of the Los Angeles Air Cargo Association (LAACA) on 20 June that a forecast surge in demand for US air cargo capacity will be ... [+]

Malcolm’s Andrew Malcolm is Multimodal Personality of the Year

Malcolm Group chief executive Andrew Malcolm, was named the Multimodal 2022 Personality of the Year at a record-breaking awards event on the evening of 14 June A throng of 860 guests total came together at the VOX in Birmingham on the evening of the first day of Multimodal 2022 to celebrate ... [+]

Cargo-partner opens second Zagreb site

Austrian-owned logistics operator cargo-partner has opened a new 12,900sq m warehouse in Zagreb, close to the airport to the south-east of the city. It offers 13,500 pallet slots along with a 900 m² mezzanine space for value added services and e-fulfilment for fashion and other industries. Cargo-partner has an existing ... [+]

Forth Ports group unveils Green Freeport bid

A Forth Ports-led public and private sector consortium has unveiled its vision for a green Freeport for Scotland as part of the bidding for two locations under the Scottish government’s plans. It encompasses three key ports on the Forth (Grangemouth, Leith and Rosyth); industrial facilities and logistics centres along the north ... [+]

Ellen sets battery ferry record

The Ellen set a world distance record on 9 June for a vehicle-carrying fully electric ferry - 50 nautical miles (92 kilometres) on a single battery charge. The feat was witnessed in Sønderborg, Denmark, where leaders from industry, government, and civil society joined the International Energy Agency for the seventh ... [+]

Record profit for Qatar Airways

Qatar Airways Group reported a record net profit of QAR 5.6 billion (US$ 1.54 billion) during the fiscal year 2021/22. Overall revenue increased to QAR 52.3 billion (US$ 14.4 billion), up 78% compared to last year and 2% higher than 2019/20, the last pre-Covid full financial year. Qatar Airways Cargo revenue ... [+]

Nurminen signs China rail deal

Finland’s Nurminen Logistics Nurminen Logistics has signed a partnership with Chinese forwarder Shanghai Way-easy Supply Chain to strengthen rail freight and logistics services in Europe and China. It will develop services on the new Southern Trans-Caspian route which offers an alternative to the now barred Transiberian route through Russia. Shanghai ... [+]

Turkish Airlines offers Durban option

Turkish Airlines has extended two of its Istanbul-Johannesburg flights to include Durban on Thursdays and Saturdays with plans to increase these to four weekly flights later this year, depending on uptake. The first flight to land at King Shaka International Airport was given a warm welcome. Currently, Emirates flies five flights a ... [+]

Latam goes live on WebCargo

Latam Cargo is offering real-time bookings on the WebCargo platform, the first South American carrier to do so, it says. They are available on 27 trade lanes on the Freightos-owned platform. [+]

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